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Photography

Department of Performing and Creative Arts
 The Photography Program

The Photography Program offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in Art with a Photography ConcentrationB.A. in Art with a Photography Concentration, and a Minor in Photography

The Photography Program at The College of Staten Island is built on a long-standing academic tradition which teaches students how to use photography as both a form of artistic expression, and as a professional career path.  Students work with modern photography equipment, software, and Internet applications,  as well as creating artwork for galleries, museums, and beyond.

Practical courses are complimented by a solid grounding in the history of the medium, theory, and criticism.  The photography studios are fully-equipped with state-of-the art computer workstations, small, and very large scale inkjet printers, professional lighting gear, backdrops, and a fully-updated and staffed traditional and experimental Black & White darkroom facility.

Students learn the entire modern system and language of image-making in both traditional analog formats and digital formats-- ranging from cutting-edge  documentary work to alternative and historical processes.

The program holds formal exhibitions of student work every year, as well as our yearly visiting Artist Program, which hosts three world-class photographers every spring in a multi-week seminar format. Past visiting artists have included: Jen DeNike, Nichole Frocheur, Jen Davis, Michael Lavine, Nandita Raman, Kanako Sasaki, Rachel Barrett, Gina Levay, Justine Reyes, Pradeep Dalal, Zoe Strauss.

Full-Time Photography Faculty:
Professor Beatrix Reinhardt
Professor Chris Verene