Photography

The graduate and undergraduate programs address photography across the spectrum of current and historical processes, with a strong education in both darkroom and digital photography and grounding in historical and critical understanding. As undergraduates progress through the program they gain autonomy with regard to the direction of their work, and each individual’s aspirations for art and photography are deeply important to the direction and goals they will reach in their senior year. Each graduate student in photography comes in with a unique set of strengths, and students in the same studio often have different academic backgrounds, which makes for a rich learning environment. Graduate students are tasked with pushing the boundaries of their photographic and intellectual ability, and graduate studio requires formal and critical research and innovation. Graduate students are indispensable members of the department and their work as Teaching Assistants and Teaching Fellows gives them great responsibility and training in the field.