What makes a Camera?

Lighting, Composition & Exposure

Street Photography / Portraiture & Editing in Photoshop

Digital Illustration with Historical Research

Landscape

Vy Do, ART 140A, Online

Part of our Introduction to Digital Photography class involves students creating a website that holds a gallery of all of their work created during the term, their individual Final project series as well as their Collaborative Archive Project.  Everyone is asked to write a short reflective summary about their projects and for their Final, a specific Artist's statement.

Every term Galleries are featured on our PCC Photo website, however, I love gathering examples of exemplary galleries, works and other creations by students.  This term, Vy Do, in the Spring 140A course, did an amazing job of creating a site that featured their work, self reflection narratives, and fulfilled the goals of any artist's website - to communicate and connect with others.

Great Job Vy!

Trever Gelling, ART 140A, Online

The work that we do for our Final projects in ART 140A is a challenge because for most of the students, it's their first photo class and so working in a series is challenging for most photographers - at any point in their career. It is, however, the best way to start thinking about what photography can DO as an art form and helps as students grow their practice.  Working in a series that is a small body of work, cohesive and variations on one theme is the goal. Making meaning, having both the visual as well as the technical and compositional theme weave throughout the series - no matter how small or large - with each image able to stand alone and yet operate as part of a conversation when placed among its 'family' of images - is so small feat. Trever Gelling's series "Documenting Avian Adaptation to Humanity" accomplishes all of these things. Please visit this project and read the statement - it's an exemplary model for work that is meaningful and activates the viewer through aesthetics and emotion.

 Great job Trever!

Daphne Simamoto, ART 140A, Online

The Artist statement can be long or short - the point is to be clear, to speak in your own voice, and to communicate with your viewer. It's a little bit of a behind-the-curtain peek at the artists' process and thoughts about a project.   Daphne's artist statement is brief but packs a poetic punch with visual language and a sense of languid exploration - seeing one's own neighborhood through new eyes.

Wonderfully written Daphne!