This Wednesday Ben Gest will be joining us to continue our conversation about critiques, he’ll be introducing us to his critique software – Atget Studio. Atget Studio provides a simple digital platform that makes a back-and-forth exchange between creator and teacher fast and effective. Ask questions, share your art and receive critical and clear feedback […]
We were so lucky to have Terry Barrett come to FotoFika on Wednesday. I’ve been a shoot-from-the hip kind of professor and I don’t think I can ever be any other kind. As Mark Klett says we are paid to think on our feet. Responding to the individual, to the moment, to what is on […]
Please join FotoFika this week as Anne, Betsy and John host Terry Barrett for “Interactive Crits”an informal discussion of rationales and strategies for studio critiques during troubled times. 4pm EST – Wednesday, 11/18/20 Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/93761631388 Terry Barrett is the author of books on criticism and aesthetics including Criticizing Photographs and CRITS. A new edition […]
My thinking about critique was piqued for three (and then more) reasons this fall. Before the semester started in a meeting with John and Anne, Anne suggested we watch this video, The Room of Silence addressing ways in which some BIPOC students feel in critiques. I began to think a lot about race and critiques. […]
Two weeks ago I was lucky enough to login to Nick Shepard’s presentation at the SPE Online Conference for the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast Chapters. The amazing Nick Shepard created multi camera studio set up in an AirBnB with borrowed equipment and available lighting, using his laptop, a cell phone and an old 5D Mark II […]
Teaching during Covid 19 provided us with plenty of Unknown Unknowns, to quote Donald Rumsfeld during the disaster that was the Iraq war. At this point we have have more Known Knowns and more awareness of what we don’t know than we did in the spring. Knowing what we don’t know gives us an opportunity […]
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the databases! There are so many new entries on all three and I encourage you to visit often and continue to add entries so that we can have truly inclusive resources: https://fotofika.org/data/ The Inclusive Photographer database has added 36 entries! The Inclusive Classroom database has added 14 […]
And it continues, you can’t make this shit up. This week. An insane debate with three old white guys, maskless in a room (albeit large) for 90 minutes fighting to talk like a really really bad Thanksgiving dinner, only they were discussing issues affecting the entire planet–and then one is positive for Covid. (Don’t get […]
Last week the Northwest Chapter of the Society for Photographic Education hosted their annual conference online as part of a series of weekend conference programs by SPE chapters. This week the Midwest Chapter is hosting three days of programing starting tomorrow. All of the speakers are listed at: https://2020-spechapterconferences.heysummit.com/ The SPE membership drive runs through […]
Marni Shindleman leads the photography, Art X and AB in Interdisciplinary studies programs at UGA, which has one of the highest rates of Covid+ students in the country. They have mandated face to face classes. It is a crisis of all sorts. She told us: “I wake up some days in tears and […]