Tisch Photography & Imaging

Guess the Photographer!

Cover Image: Thomas Frederick Arndt, “Playing Horseshoes, 4 of July, Eagle Grove, Iowa”, 1985

Congratulations to the DPI Class of 2026!
You’ve worked so hard these past four years and created remarkable work.
We’re so excited to see what you do next 📸

EXHIBITIONS TO SEE: A Life of Making
DPI’s very own Professor Yolanda Cuomo announces her first solo exhibition!

May 22 - June 19, 2026
Officine Fotografiche
📍Via Giuseppe Liberia, 1, 00154 Roma RM, Italy

This exhibition takes visitors directly into Cuomo’s visual laboratory, pulling back the curtain on how legendary photography books and editorial layouts are born out of deep creative partnerships.

DPI’s book of the month is “Hotel Chelsea: Living in the Last Bohemian Haven” by Colin Miller.

An immersive photographic tour of the legendary Chelsea Hotel, whose residents share their stories and reveal the delirious history of this landmark.

DPI TRIVIA TUESDAY

Which two professors lead DPI IRL workshops as of 4/28/26?

Darryl Cowherd and Louis Mendes: Legacy Acquisition Fund

April 15 - May 29, 2026
The Gordon Parks Foundation
📍48 Wheeler Avenue, Pleasantville, NY 10570

Throughout his life, Gordon Parks championed fellow artists and activists, and emphasized the collaboration as central to his own artistic endeavors. Now in its 20th year, The Gordon Parks Foundation has made has made the support of artists and writers whose work reflects and extends Parks’s legacy a core part of its mission.

This exhibition presents works by the 2026 Legacy Acquisition Fund artists, Darryl Cowherd and Louis Mendes. The accompanying texts are drawn from interviews conducted with the artists earlier this year.

Josef Koudelka: Diaries
(Edited by DPI Professor Melissa Harris)

Over the course of fifty-plus years, Josef Koudelka (born in Moravia, Czech Republic, 1938) has kept sixty-nine journals. Distilled now into one richly illustrated volume, Josef Koudelka: Diaries offers a look inside the mind of the iconoclastic Czech photographer renowned for his life in exile and a career that has included legendary projects on the Roma, the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Prague, and the devastating impact humans have had on the landscape.

Available at aperture.org.

Congratulations to Dr. Willis for receiving the 2026 AIPAD Award!

“Deb’s work and influence have meaningfully altered how photography and photographers are viewed, discussed, and represented both behind and in front of the camera,’ AIPAD executive director Lydia Melamed Johnson told Artsy in an exclusive statement. ‘Spanning scholarship, curatorial work, artistic practice, and, perhaps most importantly, her tireless support of and mentorship to the defining voices of previous generations and our present moment, her contributions to our medium, in the broadest possible sense, cannot be overstated.”

Photographer: Anthony Artis ()

The Photoville Festival – New York’s favorite photo festival – is back! Returning to their iconic stomping grounds in Brooklyn Bridge Park and in all five boroughs of NYC, May 16-30, 2026. The time has officially come for our Photoville Village to come together for another year.

Featuring work by DPI Professor: Bayeté Ross Smith
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.

May 16 - 30, 2026
Brooklyn Bridge Park — Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
📍1 Water St, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Photography in a Changing Climate lead by Former Visiting Professor: Gesche Würfel

Thursdays, May 7 - 28, 2026
6:00 - 9:00 PM
Penumbra Foundation
📍36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016

This course examines the relationship between the climate change and photography, focusing on how photographers document both environmental change and contribute to it.

More Info at the link in our bio.