Parents

"Photography now dominates the international art scene and the circuit between galleries, museums and art fairs. The digital revolution has made us ubiquitous; everyone is a photographer today, and iPhone 6 'masterpieces' decorate the physical as well as the information highways. Our fight is over, in some ways. Our students arrive tech-smart and  sophisticated, immersed in an endless image-world that can circle in globe with one click. But our mission – to train young people in the art of photographic seeing – seems more important than ever, and like it has just begun. There is a reason for that. The medium’s ubiquity has made it virtually invisible, difficult to distinguish from the sun, the moon, the earth, the stars; like them, the constant stream of images seems like a natural rather than a cultural phenomena. Untangling the histories of pictures, their ideologies, their social relationships and their impact on our self-images is crucial at this point, to insure the vitality of critical thought in the post-modern world." - Shelley Rice, Arts Professor