All parts of the Ferit Sahenk Fine Arts Center were humming before Spring Break! Second year IB students were completing their interviews of their work and getting ready to upload their workbook pages, the AP students were finishing up their portfolios for a May 2nd deadline, and all other students are readying work for the May Spring Arts Festival.
Click on the image above to view TASIS students at work during the class day.
While each trip returns from Academic Travel with a collective story, it is the individual stories and perspectives that make this experience so special. After a week in far-flung places around the world, students and teachers linger in the De Nobili dining room discussing their memories. Most advisors open their Monday advisor meeting with “Well, how was your trip?”
Photos help everyone remember both collective and personal memories. During last month’s trips, Photography 1 students were asked to be thoughtful with a few of their images, focusing on composition whether using a DSLR or their smartphones. Once back in class, students created a picture-story, or pictory.
The pictory concept began in December 2009, when graphic designer Laura Brunow Miner created the website Pictory to showcase photo stories – remarkable images and poignant words – based around various themes. Photographers from around the world sent in submissions which Miner curated into group essays. The 40+ Photography 1 students drew on the archives of this site for inspiration, and some of their work is included in the Academic Travel Spring 2014 ebook.
Click here to see the 2014 Academic Travel ebook.
An new exhibition is now in place in the Ferit Şahenk Fine Arts Center. The show is comprised of work from the current classes plus those from the TASIS Fine Art archive/collection.
TASIS photography students have over 300 images on display in the Palmer Cultural Center on the TASIS campus this weekend. The exhibition will be on display throughout the day on Saturday, January 25 and Sunday January 26. A reception and sale of photographs will take place on Sunday at 5:30. Don't miss seeing the amazing and creative talents of the TASIS photography students.
TASIS Photography classes often grab their cameras and explore the campus during classtime. Sometimes there are assignments where the students look for shadows, colors, hidden corners, or abstract compositions. Other days pinhole cameras are used to try and capture the campus with a shoe box. One Photography 1 class headed outside this week in search of reflections. At first it seemed as if there were no interesting compositions to be found, but by the end of the walk it was surprising what had been seen and photographed. Enjoy a few of the images from a 30-minute TASIS walkabout!
From camping in Australia's Outback to snorkeling with stingrays in St. John, TASIS graduate Taylor Tomosso '13 has had an adventure and photography-packed summer.
From Taylor....
I traveled around Europe for a few weeks after graduation, and then was home for about three weeks (the longest time I’ve been home in four years) before I traveled to Australia with National Geographic for a student expeditions photography trip. I met people from all around the world who all shared the same passion of photography. We camped under the Milky Way, swam with black tip reef sharks, and we all learned from some of the best photographers in the world.
After one month of living out of a suitcase, I was happy to come home for a short week before leaving again, this time to Nicaragua for a mission trip at an orphanage. I loved seeing the kids, handing out clothes and food to the poor, and practicing my Spanish. I was able to spend a week with my family, but ten days later, I left for my six-month adventure to Liberia, Costa Rica, where I will stay until early 2014. I'm living with a family and teaching English, and enjoying the cultural immersion that this offers. My adventure continues! Below are a few photographs taken in Australia and Central America.
The Fall 2013 e-magazine is now available to read. Check out the Academic Photography contest and stories of news around campus!
