Nostalgia is a gateway to a myriad of senses— from revisiting a meal from your childhood to hearing a song you grew up with. Arguably, there is no such potent a sense as that of sight when it comes to nostalgia. When one hears “film photography,” their mind may automatically go to a Polaroid camera. How can we help it when Outkast told us to shake it like a Polaroid picture?
Read moreFour Different Majors Walk Into A Gallery Space- Then What?
Given audio, film, installation, and photography, you may wonder what these mediums all have in common besides being related to art. For four artists — Hadia Bakkar ’20, Kadijatou Diallo ’20, Amanda Peckler ’20, and Cristianel Gil ’20 — these styles all work together to redefine familiar places.
Read moreCollectors and Collections: Media Making with Hadia Bakkar
Films and movies can easily depict the sequence of a narrative through multiple frames and angles. Photography, however, only allows for one image to tell an entire story. Hadia Bakkar ’20 finds this challenge to be even more rewarding.
Read moreRania Matar on the Lived Experiences of Refugees
Rania Matar, an award-winning photographer, spoke to first-year students about the diverse lived experiences of refugees in Lebanon.
Read moreArtist Interview: Reece Robinson
I talked with senior Reece Robinson about his film and photography career and got insight into how he has progressed as an artist.
Read moreA Look into "Matt Bollinger: DIY"
Matt Bollinger, a Kansas City native, came to Skidmore to talk about his current exhibit, Matt Bollinger: DIY, that is currently at the Schick. The exhibit will run until April 22nd.
Read moreThe Man with a Camera and a Purpose
Jason Houston, a world traveler whose goal is to make environmental issues around the globe heard, visited Skidmore to meet with students and hold a lecture on Tuesday, March 27th to talk about his career as a photographer and environmentalist.
Read more"This Place": 12 Artists' Takes on Israel and the West Bank
This Place, an exhibit in the Tang Museum until late April, is a multi- year project that invited a group of international artists to explore Israel and the West Bank between 2009 and 2012. Each of the twelve photographers in This Place spent an extended period of time in a place where Muslims and Jews, Palestinians and Isrealis, Africans, Bedouins, and others live side by side. What resulted is an exhibit as equally powerful as it is sentimental.
Read more“We Exist and We Resist," Issam Nassar Delivers Insightful Lecture
On Wednesday, Feb. 6., Professor Issam Nassar, a historian of the Modern Middle East and Photography at Illinois State University, guest lectured at Skidmore as a part of the “Palestinian Voices” series in relation to the current Tang Museum exhibition ‘This Place’.
Read moreBehind the Lens with National Geographic Photographer Ami Vitale
Ami Vitale has travelled the world documenting people and wildlife in over 90 countries, living with locals in rural Guinea-Bissau and in conflict zones from Angola to Afghanistan. Over many years, she has battled food shortages and lived in mud huts, keeping true to her philosophy of ‘living the story.’
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