January edition of the monthly photography department newsletter

This is the first e-newsletter for spring semester, 2023

1,000 Miles Per Hour – the speed of earth's rotation at the equator – showcases the effects of perspective through photography and other contemporary practices.

Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Using critical wit and collaborative co-creation, her projects have leveraged open-source systems, shareware logic, and flows of capital in order to investigate issues of economies and empire.

Dawit L. Petros is a visual artist, researcher and educator. Throughout the past decade, he has focused on a critical re-reading of the entanglements between colonialism and modernity. These concerns derive from lived experiences: Petros is an Eritrean emigrant who spent formative years in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Kenya before settling in central Canada.

Lisa Jarrett is an artist and educator. Her intersectional practice considers the politics of difference within a variety of settings including: schools, landscapes, fictions, racial imaginaries, studios, communities, museums, galleries, walls, mountains, mirrors, floors, rivers, and lenses. She recently discovered that her primary medium is questions.

David Bowen is a studio artist and educator whose work has been featured in exhibitions at ZKM Karlsruhe, Fundación Telefónica Madrid, Eyebeam New York, Ars Electronica Linz, BOZAR Brussels, Science Gallery Dublin, Itau Cultural, São Paulo, Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial Gijón, The Israel Museum Jerusalem, The Cranbrook Museum of Art Detroit, Intercommunication Center Tokyo and Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona.

Hans Klompen is a Professor in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology and Director of the Acarology Collection at The Ohio State University. He studied Animal Ecology at the Catholic University in The Netherlands and received his PhD in Biology from the University of Michigan working with Barry O’Connor on systematics and host associations of sarcoptic mange mites.

Chad Hunt is an award-winning photojournalist. During his time as staff photographer for Virginia Style Weekly, he received 38 Virginia Press Awards. Since moving to New York in 2004, Hunt has made three journeys to Afghanistan as an embedded photographer with the U.S. Military, creating photo stories for Men’s Journal, Popular Mechanics, and the cover of Time Magazine.

Ben Kinsley’s projects have ranged from choreographing a neighborhood intervention into Google Street View, directing surprise theatrical performances inside the homes of strangers, organizing a paranormal concert series, staging a royal protest, investigating feline utopia, collecting put-down jokes from around the world, and planting a buried treasure in the streets of Mexico City.

Roger Beebe is a filmmaker whose work since 2006 consists primarily of multiple-projector performances and essayistic videos that explore the world of found images and the "found" landscapes of late capitalism. He has screened his films around the globe.

The summer 2022 edition of the Photography newsletter

Weaving together memories of experiences with right-wing relatives and an analysis of our current political crisis.

Full interviews with the featured artists in Flickering at the edge of Anthropocene: Allison Maria Rodriguez, Barry Underwood, and Kathy Vajda

On World Environment Day, the current pandemic holds a mirror to some of the causes-of and responses-to the climate crisis.

Recent events remind white people of our ongoing responsibility to be actively anti-racist.

As the pandemic continues, faculty and students creatively adapt and discover new opportunities for sustaining creative practice, community, and self.