Tag: Photography

  • Mia Murphy’s photography soars on Times Square

    Photographic skill, an overwhelming attention to detail, and persistent desire combined to land a dream assignment for recent Photography grad Mia Murphy. Her art appeared on a digital billboard installation at Times Square during New York Fashion Week 2022. It is a peak moment in her young career and the realization of a tenacious vision.…

  • Art for a Sheltered-in-Place World

    At a time when at best it is just getting safe for most museums to admit live visitors, consider “The Gates,” the massive Christo-Jeanne-Claude installation in Central Park, in February 2005. There were 7,500 orange saffron arches along 27 miles of park pathways… room for at least 24,000 visitors at a time, six feet apart!…

  • Moving mosaic cornered by Prof. Brian Emery

    Professor Brian Emery’s  “Williamsburg Grid Test,” currently in the faculty exhibit “New Views,” is as captivating and vibrant as a New York City street corner. It is composed of 108, one-minute videos organized in a grid, each of a slightly different view taken at slightly different times.  The setting, movement and chatter, are from a busy street corner in…

  • FIT Senior BFA Photography Exhibit

    May 12th  marked the opening of the BFA Photography Exhibit at the Salt Space.  Fortunately, there’s more time, until May 25th, to be transported by its wonder and magic.  See details below. Spirit Photograph by Jolene Lupo “42” the Fashion Institute of Technology BFA Photography 2011 Senior Show is on view from May 12 –…

  • The Sámi & The Reindeer

    The  Sámi & The Reindeer

    On April 15th, award-winning photographer and Fulbright recipient, Erika Larsen, spoke to Brad Paris’ portfolio review class about her time with Sámi reindeer herders of the Scandinavian arctic. Ms. Larsen showed stunning images and video segments of reindeer herding and hunting, meal preparation, family portraits and aspects of daily life. Over a four-year period, she gained access…