For now I want to focus on my new classes and my new internship. This fall I'm taking Darkroom III, as required in order to graduate. At first I wasn't too happy that I was forced to take this class because I print all of my work digitally. However, I started shooting film again this summer and plan to stick with it for a while, so learning about developing processes will be really helpful. I'm also taking Website Publishing I, which I'm really excited about. As a total computer/Internet nerd, I feel pretty comfortable with anything web related. I'm hoping this class will teach me a lot of skills I consider essential for success in my field. My only gen. ed. class this semester is Visual Anthropology. I had no idea how relevant this class was going to be to my field of study and to my own work. But it looks like the topics we'll discuss might really help me with some ideas I'm throwing around. My fourth class is the one I'm most excited about, but also most intimidated by. It's Dawoud Bey's "The Portrait" class. This semester Kelli Connell will be teaching the class, and I have to admit I'm very pleased with this change. Kelli Connell's current project runs along the lines of my own interests, so I feel lucky that I will be learning from her.
About a month ago I started an internship with Laurie Rubin Studio, Inc., which is a commercial advertising photography and video studio here in Chicago. While I am definitely not a commercial photographer, I'm really glad I've gotten the opportunity to see what it's all about. I feel like I've already learned quite a bit in the few shoots I've assisted with, so I'm excited to continue with it for the rest of this semester.
Amber Hawk Swanson, To Hold, Pinball, 2008, c-print
2 comments:
I hadn't heard about the "child porn" thing with cole's show... did this get written up in the paper or anything? This actually doesn't surprise me that much. While the students that go there continually push the envelope, I've come to realize that a lot of the powers that be are as conservative and culturally deaf as our former pres.
Yeah Cole found out literally just a week before the show was set to open that someone had complained that Betsy Schneider's (I believe that's the correct artist) work was child pornography. The images are of her own daughter for goodness sake. Anyway, it was up in the air for a while whether or not they were going to pull the show completely or figure out something to do with her work. They settled on putting it in that room in the back corner, the "shame room" as we've grown to call it.
I don't think it's been written about in the paper. Even though Cole was outraged at the retrogressive thinking of the college, he seemed like he didn't want to make a huge fuss about it. Juan and I were definitely really upset about it, though. I was going to write more explicitly about it in my blog, but opted not to because the show is such a success in spite of all this.
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