Photo: Four Freedoms reinterpreted by alumni Emily Shur & Hank Willis Thomas for For Freedoms, 2018
Photography & Imaging Community Newsletter
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DPI Chair: Dr. Willis Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of Delaware
Friday, May 22, 2026
We are thrilled to announce that our very own Dr. Willis has been awarded an honorary degree from the University of Delaware.
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DPI Alumni Spotlight: Denise Stephanie Hewitt ('24) Solo Exhibition Debut: "SPINNERS"
Monday, May 18, 2026
You are cordially invited to celebrate the debut solo exhibition of Denise Stephanie Hewitt, titled "SPINNERS."
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DPI Faculty Spotlight: Avedon (2026) featuring Professor Yolanda Cuomo
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
NEW YORK / CANNES — Renowned art director and book designer Yolanda Cuomo (known to many as "Yo") takes center stage in the definitive new documentary AVEDON, directed by Academy Award-winner Ron Howard.
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DPI Faculty Spotlight: A Life of Making Exhibition feature Professor Yolanda Cuomo
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Rather than presenting a traditional, static retrospective, A Life of Making—marking DPI Professor Yo's first-ever solo exhibition—is designed as an open narrative where image, thought, and the creative process seamlessly coexist.
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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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