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At least 10 images should be on a single theme. Title or caption each of your images. Include a brief description with the medium/format (analog, digital, etc.) and indicate which 10 images are within the single theme. You will be asked to explain your chosen series in your written statement.

Sequence your work to effectively communicate your ideas. Your portfolio should be a cohesive body of work that reveals your passion, effort, and most importantly your point of view. We look for diversity in student thinking, experience, and media presentation. Effective development of meaningful content is of particular importance. The portfolio assignment requests images on a single theme, but this should not limit you to submitting work from a single photo shoot or a single roll of film. Take time to review our suggestions for generating portfolio content and consider the myriad ways you can approach your submission.

We also accept submission of new and interactive media based work, sound and video art. If appropriate, include link in the caption. You may include up to 5 non-photo based images (painting, sculpture, collage, installation, drawing, etc.), but if you choose to do so, you must submit a total of 20 images.

1. List the photography, digital imaging, art and art history courses, if any, that you have taken.

2. Briefly list your photography and imaging skills.

3. Do you have any other experience related to your image-making work that you would like to share?

5. If you have a website or social media you would like to share, please include the url/link.

6. Outside of photography, what other academic subjects or activities are most important to you?

Please provide responses, 150 words or less per question, to the following:
 

1. Introduce yourself:
   Who are you? What interests you about our program?
   You may write something or include the link to a video introduction of 30 seconds or less.
    

2. Project Statement:
   Write a brief statement about your submitted work. Discuss the ideas you are exploring in the single theme portion of your portfolio and include what motivated you to create the project. What role would you like to see your images play in the world at large?
    

3. Photograph or Photographer:
   Describe a photograph or photographer that you consistently return to view and explain how this photograph or image engages you. How do you see your role as a photographer changing or different from those photographers whom you have admired in the past?
    

4. Photo/image-based art in the world today:
   What does it mean to make photo/image-based art now, in the 21st Century? What platforms and modes of circulation for images do you find most interesting, problematic, or challenging?
   
   
5. What academic subject(s) interest you?
   Tell us more about your background, family life, interests (acdemic and otherwise) and goals.

• Avoid compiling a disjointed group of images that is intended to be considered individually. A large variety of photographs that show a sampling of every genre and technique often appear incoherent or lacking in vision.


• When selecting the content for your portfolio, include images that expand on the same theme (or a series of themes and ideas) rather than images that are thematically unrelated.


• Sequence your work so that the images flow and relate to one another conceptually and visually. Consider what the work tells the viewer about you. The Department does not have access to your common application and will never get to read your personal essay. How you can convey this information through your image submissions? Your portfolio is an opportunity to share your opinions, passion for ideas, and personal vision of the world.

• Create from your passion and embrace the fact that personal passion is subjective. You may find inspiration exploring something you absolutely love or you may feel driven to create work in response to something you find unjust, unpleasant or reprehensible. Any theme can be worthy of exploration. Show us what evokes your excitement to create images.
  
  
• For inspiration, see photography/art exhibitions, and movies. Read literature, poetry. In short, seek out media that excites your creativity. Try to understand what makes this work engaging and coherent.
  
  
• Keep a journal of ideas for image-making.
  
  
• Ask yourself what elements to add to the images so that other possibilities can be explored and developed, expanding the boundaries of your idea.
  
  
• Ask others for feedback and learn how others read your images.
  
  
• Accept critical feedback.