Alessandra Capodacqua, NYU Florence
The Spring 2020 semester was interrupted after three weeks of classes. The students had to move out of the campus and most of them were able to travel back home.
The transition to remote teaching has been abrupt, inevitably faulty in some areas. The students complained about the lack of a true local experience: photo shootings in the studio and outdoors for the Fashion Photography course, the famous field trip to Naples to document the anti-mafia movement and meet with local photographers for the Photojournalism course. However, those three weeks in Florence really served to create a bond and a commitment. The progression and the final results, now that we are approaching the end of the semester, really left me speechless with joy and very very proud of my students.
This is a selection of students who agreed to have their works published.
For Fashion Photography, I asked the students to create a mock-up for a magazine. Under my supervision, they acted as the designer, the stylist, the photographer, and the model. They were free to decide on every detail of their magazine: from designing the logo, to conceiving mood boards, sequencing the pages, generating the content and creating the graphic design from the cover to every detail of the magazine.