Photo: Four Freedoms reinterpreted by alumni Emily Shur & Hank Willis Thomas for For Freedoms, 2018
Photography & Imaging Community Newsletter
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DPI Professor Bayeté Ross Smith and Photoville collaborate on Smith's Red Summers VR project
Thursday, Apr 23, 2026
Red Summers is a series of 360 immersive episodes with corresponding essays and community testimonials that tell the untold American history of racially motivated domestic terrorism from 1917 to 1921, created by DPI Professor Bayeté Ross Smith.
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Photography in a Changing Climate (Lead by Former Visiting Professor Gesche Würfel)
Tuesday, Apr 21, 2026
This course examines the relationship between climate change and photography, focusing on how photographers both document environmental change and contribute to it.
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Staff Spotlight: Jordan Cruz: ‘The Seventh AIM Biennial’ Open House With Exhibiting Artists
Friday, Apr 17, 2026
“By collapsing boundaries between private mourning and collective experience, Brouckaert, Cruz, Lee, and Takeda consider how impermanent materials can bear enduring meaning, and how seemingly stable materials reveal their own instability. Together, they ask how art can memorialize loss without fixing it in place, and how care lies not only in preservation, but in allowing change.”
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Denise Stephanie Hewitt (‘24) for TEDxNYU
Thursday, Apr 16, 2026
Denise Stephanie Hewitt (‘24) will take the TEDxNYU stage for their Annual Conference, Constant Variable!
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DPI Presents: Spring 2026 IRL Workshops!
Tuesday, Apr 14, 2026
IRL on Real Life is a new, ongoing lecture and workshop series hosted by DPI Faculty and Staff. Each session will be open to all DPI students and will focus on a specific artistic or real-world skill necessary for emerging imagemaking artists to thrive personally and professionally.
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DPI Staff Member, Jordan Cruz, featured in Tomorrow maybe exhibition
Monday, Apr 13, 2026
Reconstruction always risks collapse. Jordan Corine Cruz, Alison Kuo, and Aidan McLellan each oscillate around Tomorrow maybe’s heart: looking backward to consider our inherited voices and believing in the eventually.
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DPI Professor, Lili Kobielski, releases 'At the Derby: Kentucky's Grandest Celebration of Fashion' Photo Book
Thursday, Apr 9, 2026
Delving into the intersection of high fashion and Southern tradition, Kobielski showcases the vibrant array of styles and personalities that grace the event each year.
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Congratulations to fulbright fellow, Dr. Julia Stachura for earning her PhD!
Tuesday, Apr 7, 2026
Congratulations to Fulbright Fellow, Dr. Julia Stachura for defending her PhD with distinctions at the Institute of Art History UAM! Julia Stachura is an art historian, independent curator, and Fulbright Ambassador.
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Margeaux Walter releases 'sedimental' Photo Book
Friday, Apr 3, 2026
Walter’s temporary, non-invasive modifications and her resulting photographs form new perspectives on the equilibrium between the natural world and our human presence within it. Sedimental challenges viewers to engage in the act of seeing, and to question the veracity of what one perceives.
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The Photography Show Presented by AIPAD featuring Dr. Willis and Marion Misilim
Tuesday, Mar 31, 2026
The Photography Show presented by AIPAD is pleased to announce its programming for the 45th edition of the fair. Anchored by AIPAD Talks, the series will commence on Thursday, April 24, at 1 PM when this year’s AIPAD Award winner, Deborah Wilis, University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, will be in conversation with Brendan Embser, Senior Editor at Aperture.
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