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Summer in Italy: vivid colors, shadows and eerie feelings
“I love the night because it allows me to see the stars and the moon, and when most people are sleeping I’m seeing everything in a different light. Vivid colors, shadows and that eerie feeling of not knowing is exciting to me.” – Sam Verkaik, photography student Street scenes, fashion shoots, cuisine, architecture, outdoor markets…
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FIT in Milan student work hits the runway
Waking up in Milan, you might think, is inspiration enough to create high fashion. But it’s just the start of the day for BFA fashion students studying at FIT in Milan. In addition to 120 hours of classwork at the Politecnico di Milano, they visited museums, attended trade shows, took side trips and did internships to…
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Tara in Paris and Italy
To preserve and make public her memories of Paris and Italy this summer, Tara Ricci, 1 of 17 students in Professor Markus’s CL131 class, filled her travel blog with engaging posts and photos taken with a point-and-shoot camera. Tara’s blog, Design Project: France & Italy, records a tour de fashion experience par excellence. “It was astonishing to…
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“My Italian Experience”
“Bringing everything I learned from FIT into this new ‘world’ was challenging and exciting,” writes Alex Lilja of his PH311 International Photographic Study and Practice abroad experience. The summer program, led by incoming chair of FIT’s photography department, Ron Amato, included two weeks in Florence and Milan and three days in Como. photo by Alex Lilja “Surrounded by beautiful…