This season FotoFika is working on a crowdsourced cookbook for photographers, educators and students featuring recipes for photographic chemistry, living a purposeful life, a killer meatloaf and plenty of beverage options.

FotoFika meetings are every 3rd Wednesday of the month at 4 pm Eastern!

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/93761631388?pwd=eTYxL0NSVkVNWDh4SnVhclFXTEorQT09

Meeting ID: 937 6163 1388

Passcode: fotofika

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FotoFika is Back!   Last week Anne, Betsy and John hosted Rebecca Senf from the Center for Creative Photography and talked about her 52 Cake Project and the ways in which it influenced her work as a curator, her scholarship and her role as a parent.  This season FotoFika is working on a crowdsourced cookbook for photographers, educators and students featuring recipes for photographic chemistry, living a purposeful life, a killer paella and even a few adult beverages.

FotoFika meetings are every 3rd Wednesday of the month at 4 pm Eastern!

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/93761631388?pwd=eTYxL0NSVkVNWDh4SnVhclFXTEorQT09

Meeting ID: 937 6163 1388

Passcode: fotofika

Meet with us on Wednesday, September 15th, at 4 pm Eastern! This year we’re taking on a new approach to working with all of you. Come back to say hello to friends, stay to hear about the new project!

What do mini-marshmallows have to teach us about taking risks, building instinct, being vulnerable, and the way personal interests can influence professional practice? Join the Center for Creative Photography’s chief curator, Rebecca Senf, as she links personal learning and development of “soft skills” to her photo historical work and research.

Dr. Rebecca Senf is Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, in Tucson. Her B.A. in Art History is from the University of Arizona; her M.A. and Ph.D. were awarded by Boston University. In 2012, her book Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe was released by the University of California Press; in 2017, her book To Be Thirteen, showcasing the work of Betsy Schneider, was published by Radius Press and Phoenix Art Museum. Senf is an Ansel Adams scholar, and recently published a book on Adams’s early years, called Making a Photographer, copublished by the CCP and Yale University Press.

FotoFika meetings are every 3rd Wednesday of the month at 4 pm Eastern!

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/93761631388?pwd=eTYxL0NSVkVNWDh4SnVhclFXTEorQT09

Meeting ID: 937 6163 1388

Passcode: fotofika

Recipes!

This last year we’ve talked about adapting formulas and how to’s, we’ve talked about modifying assignments and guiding principles – FotoFika keeps thinking about these as the “recipes” of photo education.

Bring a recipe to share!

A FEW THAT HAVE ALREADY COME OUR WAY:

• Ingredient list (from lighting list assignment)
• Metaphor of a sandwich assignment
• Advice for students
• Recipe for survival, success, the future, the way forward
• Coping strategies

See you Wednesday, April 28th, 4pm EDT at:

https://zoom.us/j/93761631388?pwd=eTYxL0NSVkVNWDh4SnVhclFXTEorQT09

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spenational/fotofika-2020-all-stars-trading-card-project

There are 11 days left to the 2020 All Star Kickstarter campaign, where we are raising money to send every student who participated a free deck of cards with their images included. We have a $2000 challenge pledge which will match your contribution dollar for dollar until midnight tonight. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spenational/fotofika-2020-all-stars-trading-card-project

Just over a year ago the International Center of Photography initiated the hashtag #ICPConcerned. David Campany, reflects on how it became an exhibition and book that democratized the curatorial exchange between image maker and museum. With over 800 images from 70 countries, the project looked at devastation and hope in a time of pandemic and civil unrest. Join us to hear about this collective endeavour that occurred both online and in the museum at ICP.

https://icpconcerned.icp.org/

David Campany is a curator, writer and Managing Director of Programs at the International Center of Photography, New York. He has published over 200 essays and authored seventeen books including On Photographs (2020), and Art and Photography (2003). Last year he curated the six-museum Biennale für Aktuelle Fotografie.

See you WEDNESDAY, April 14th, 4pm EST at:

ZOOM ID:

https://zoom.us/j/93761631388?pwd=eTYxL0NSVkVNWDh4SnVhclFXTEorQT09

https://zoom.us/j/93761631388?pwd=eTYxL0NSVkVNWDh4SnVhclFXTEorQT09

Kim Beil teaches art history at Stanford University. Recently she’s written about  photography and climate change for the Atlantic,  the pre-history of  Zoom backgrounds for Aeon/Psyche , and pandemic bread photography for Literary Hub. Her book,  Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography , was published in June 2020. You can find her ever-expanding collection of how-to books on Instagram. Join Foto Fika Wednesday, March 31 4PM HERE

– John, Betsy, Anne P.S. Please consider donating to our Kickstarter campaign for our 2020 All Star Trading Cards: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spenational/fotofika-2020-all-stars-trading-card-project

In 2020, the pandemic impacted graduating students in a profound way. Thesis shows were cancelled, graduations were unique to say the least, and many students felt shorted by the last days of in person learning. But with difficult situations comes new ways of celebrating the next generation of photographers….and so The FotoFika 2020 All Stars Project was born.