Select Examples of Student Work 2013-2018
Student Name: John Bechtold (Graduate Student)
Institution: Duke University
Course: Photographic Memory: Photo Albums, Zines & Photobook
Assignment: Creation of a documentary photobook in which images are primarily relied upon to tell a story. The subject of the photobook will be determined by the student but should document and/or memorialize a community, cultural movement, custom, or personal experiences. Photobooks should include at least 20 images and incorporate necessary text and captions in a manner appropriate for the subject matter. Books can be handmade or printed through a vendor such as Blurb or lulu.
Description from the Artist: "As a retired soldier and Iraq War veteran, I began to wonder how people interact with war memorials. To me it seems as if it is our individual and collective response to memorials that lends meaning to the structures. The handmade photobook War Memorials documents regional war memorials and my attempts to understand their meaning."
Materials: Digital Images printed on Epson Premium Matte Paper
Student Name: Adriaan Venter (Undergraduate)
Institution: Duke University
Course: Photographic Memory: Photo Albums, Zines & Photobooks
Assignment: Creation of a documentary photobook in which images are primarily relied upon to tell a story. The subject of the photobook will be determined by the student but should document and/or memorialize a community, cultural movement, custom, or personal experiences. Photobooks should include at least 20 images and incorporate necessary text and captions in a manner appropriate for the subject matter. Books can be handmade or printed through a vendor such as Blurb or lulu.
Description from the Artist: "In 1842 British colonization prompted Hong Kong to become the gateway to China with the trade from Europe. Soon after, Hong Kong became a bustling hub of trade and finance, attracting workers from the mainland city of Kowloon. Since 1888, the Star Ferry boats have been faithfully carrying these workers across Victoria Harbour from Kowloon to Hong Kong. The handmade photobook Star Ferry documents the route that tens of thousands of people still take every day."
Materials: Laser-etched wood, newsprint transferred to tracing paper, and Epson Premium Matte Paper
Student Name: Devon Russell (Undergraduate)
Institution: Duke University
Course: Introduction to Photograph
Assignment: Emulations Project: Emulating the work of a photographer whose work is available in the library.
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print (Emulation of Aaron Siskind)
Student Name: Andreas Dyvig & Jamison Crowder (Undergraduates)
Institution: Duke University
Course: Introduction to Photography
Assignment: Collaborative Portrait Project: Work with a partner from this class and collaborate to make portraits of each other. The final images must also be selected in collaboration. Make two prints of each selected image and trade prints with your partner on the due date.
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print
Student Name: Lily Musai (Undergraduate)
Institution: University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Course: Intermediate Photography
Assignment: Light Sources: Select a light source and utilize that light source as both your material and subject matter.
Medium: Inkjet Print from Digital Image
Student Name: Emily Stranahan (Undergraduate)
Institution: University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Course: Introduction to Photography
Assignment: Variations in Locomotion: Demonstrate your mastery of photographic time by utilizing a fast shutter speed to “stop” time and capture a subject in motion.
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print
Student Name: Michael Kelly (Undergraduate)
Institution: Duke University
Course: Introduction to Photograph
Assignment: Emulations Project: Emulating the work of a photographer whose work is available in the library.
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print (Emulation of Roy DeCarava)
Student Name: Will Cates (Undergraduate)
Institution: University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Course: Introduction to Photography
Assignment: Variations in Locomotion: Demonstrate your mastery of photographic time by utilizing a fast shutter speed to “stop” time and capture a subject in motion.
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print
Student Name: Da Eun Kim (Undergraduate)
Institution: University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Course: Introduction to Photograph
Assignment: Variations in Locomotion: Demonstrate your mastery of photographic time by utilizing a fast shutter speed to “stop” time and capture a subject in motion.
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print
Student Name: Antoinette Swart & Aaron Borgman (Undergraduates)
Institution: University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Course: Introduction to Photography
Assignment: Collaborative Portrait Project: Work with a partner from this class and collaborate to make portraits of each other. The final images must also be selected in collaboration. Make two prints of each selected image and trade prints with your partner on the due date.
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print
Student Name: Lorenzo Pedro & Mackenzie Wichard
Institution: University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Course: Introduction to Photograph
Assignment: Collaborative Portrait Project: Work with a partner from this class and collaborate to make portraits of each other. The final images must also be selected in collaboration. Make two prints of each selected image and trade prints with your partner on the due date.
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print
Student Name: Ann Tai
Institution: Duke University
Course: Introduction to Photography
Assignment: Shadow Log: Over the course of the semester you are charged with the exploring the possibilities of the photogram in both form and content. Develop your own experiments to discover what kind of information can be rendered to photographic paper without the aid of a camera and what kind of compositions you are most drawn to.
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print
Student Name: Andrea Woodard
Institution: University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Course: Intermediate Photography
Assignment: At Home with Color: Select a color and photograph EVERY object within your home that is this color. Edit your final selection to emphasize a theme in your everyday surroundings.
Medium: Inkjet Print from digital image
Student Name: Tori Ballentine
Institution: University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Course: Intermediate Photography
Assignment: At Home with Color: Select a color and photograph EVERY object within your home that is this color. Edit your final selection to emphasize a theme in your everyday surroundings.
Medium: Inkjet Print from Digital Image
Student Name: Jennifer Ruffino (Undergraduate)
Institution: University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Course: Intermediate Photography
Assignment: Light Sources: Select a light source and utilize that light source as both your material and subject matter.
Medium: Inkjet Print from Digital Image
Student Name: Kayli Higdon (Undergraduate)
Institution: University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Course: Intermediate Photography
Assignment: Light Sources: Select a light source and utilize that light source as both your material and subject matter.
Medium: Inkjet Print from Digital Image
Student Name: Devon Tucker (Undergraduate)
Institution: University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Course: Intermediate Photography
Assignment: Light Sources: Select a light source and utilize that light source as both your material and subject matter.
Medium: Inkjet Print from Digital Image
Student Name: Dan Smith (Graduate Student)
Institution: Duke University
Course: Activating the Archive: Archival Research as Documentary Practice
Assignment: Final Project: Creation of a documentary, narrative or experimental project that utilizes archival material from Duke's Rubenstien Library collections.
Description from the Artist: "No Sight but Thine and Mine is an experimental short-form documentary revealing the nature of ocular prosthetic technology housed at Duke University. The Library's History of Medicine Collection houses a mysterious box of antique prosthetic glass eyes of unknown origin and purpose. On the other side of campus at the Duke Eye Center patients are receiving cutting-edge prosthetic implants that are allowing those who've lost their sight to see the world in a completely new way."
Medium: Digital Video
Student Name: Gerald Kora Kwok (Undergraduate)
Institution: Duke University
Course: Introduction to Arts of the Moving Image
Assignment: Hybrid Animation: Create an 120 frame analog animation on 35mm film leader and then digitize that animation to create a looping animated GIF. Students may choose to use any imagemaking technique to produce the 120 frames whether it be drawing, painting, affixing/transferring/collaging materials to the film itself.
Medium: Collage and painting on 35mm film leader
Student Name: Symphony Webber (Undergraduate)
Institution: Duke University
Course: Introduction to Film Studies
Assignment: DIY Homage: Compose your own original short film that pays homage to a film we have viewed together in class. You may directly “restage” a scene from a specific film as long as that restaging includes some original innovation of your design.
Medium: Digital Video (Homage to Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon)