02/26/2025
Senior Spotlight No.9 - Jialing Gao (he/his/him), “我小时候 When I was younger”
Explore the lost part of my childhood.
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The Department of Photography & Imaging at Tisch is a four-year BFA program centered on the making and understanding of images. Students explore photo-based imagery as personal and cultural expression. The program offers students both the intensive focus of an arts curriculum while demanding a serious and broad grounding in the liberal arts. It is a diverse department embracing multiple perspectiv
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02/26/2025
02/25/2025
Senior Spotlight No.8 - Ava Emmons (she/her), “We Are Killing the Earth”
We Are Killing the Earth is a collection of images made in 3D and further designed into magazine covers to provide direct commentary on the impact of climate change.
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02/25/2025
Senior Spotlight No.7 - Vince Criniti (he/him), “Strobe”
This project is a sensory journey into the essence of dance music.
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02/24/2025
Senior Spotlight No.6 - Jacob Levine (he/him), “Dick and Ellen”
Over the course of the past three and a three and a half years I have captured the relationship between myself and my late grandparents with the aim to visualize their influences in my life.
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02/24/2025
Senior Spotlight No.5 - Phoenix-Li McHayle (he/him), “Sublimis”
My thesis embraces the notion that while urban and metropolitan landscapes will continually grow and further intervene with nature; my repeated escapes to nameless spots with my camera solidifies the infinite, inevitable, yet tranquil qualities that define nature when compared to our seemingly meager human existence and urban landscapes.
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02/24/2025
Senior Spotlight No.4 - Ashley Cho (she/her/hers), “Flâneuse: Don’t Look at Me”
Reimagining femininity through the lens of the flâneuse, the project unravels the tension between observing and being observed in public spaces, using layered Polaroid collages and red thread stitching to symbolize the invisible labor and societal pressures tethering women to the gaze of others.
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02/24/2025
Senior Spotlight No.3 - Arki Johnson (he/him), “Formula: Past, Present, and Future”
Inspired by recent sci-fi trends that focus on space travel and high-tech futures, I explore how society pushes us toward a hyper-technological existence.
02/24/2025
Senior Spotlight No.2 - Jada Rodriguez (she/her), “The Girl I’ve Been Looking For”
The Girl I’ve Been Looking For is a photography series that delves into the power, intimacy, and complexity of Black trans women’s and femmes’ lives, this work reflects on their girlhood and serves as a parallel exploration of my own personal journey.
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02/20/2025
Senior Spotlight No.1 - Jerry Zhao (he/him), “The Flesh of a Moth”
The Flesh of a Moth critiques society’s obsession with nostalgia by transforming a cocoon-like installation of fragmented Polaroids and melted plastic into a metaphor for how memories are fetishized, devalued, and distorted in the pursuit of comfort.
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02/07/2025
Join us at the 2025 BFA Thesis Exhibition today!!
Friday, February 7, 2025, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM!
The DPI BFA thesis exhibition highlights 42 senior thesis projects from the graduating class of 2025 at the NYU Tisch Department of Photography & Imaging.
📍721 Broadway
1st Floor Gulf Western Gallery and the 8th Floor Gallery
RSVP is required through the link in the bio.
Please bring a government-issued ID for entry.
01/31/2025
Please join Aperture, Parsons Photography & the Vera List Center for Art & Politics at The New School for a panel discussion about Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images by Maurice Berger and edited by Marvin Heiferman (Aperture; New York Times, 2024). Joining Marvin Heiferman are Drs. Sarah E. Lewis and Dr. Deborah Willis, creators of the Vision & Justice Book Series and coeditors of this title.
Race Stories is the first title in Aperture’s Vision & Justice Book Series—featuring a collection of award-winning short essays by Maurice Berger that explore the intersections of photography, race, and visual culture. The book examines the transformational role photography plays in shaping ideas and attitudes about race and how photographic images have been instrumental in both perpetuating and combating racial stereotypes. Written between 2012 and 2019 and first presented as a monthly feature on the New York Times Lens blog, Berger’s incisive essays help readers see a bigger picture about race through storytelling.
February 12, 2025
7:00 PM (EST)
Tishman Auditorium, 63 5th Avenue
RSVP link in bio
01/29/2025
We invite you to celebrate the opening reception of the 2025 BFA Thesis Exhibition on Friday, February 7, 2025, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM!
The DPI BFA thesis exhibition highlights 42 senior thesis projects from the graduating class of 2025 at the NYU Tisch Department of Photography & Imaging. The projects encompass a wide range of styles, including traditional lens-based portraiture and documentary photography, as well as experimental, multimedia, and conceptually-driven photo-based works.
📍 721 Broadway
1st Floor Gulf Western Gallery and the 8th Floor Gallery
RSVP is required through the link in the bio.
Please bring a government-issued ID for entry.
01/28/2025
How NYU’s Deborah Willis Created a Visual Record of the Harris Campaign, Selfies Included
📸: Jonathan King
“For Tisch School of the Arts photography professor and historian Deborah Willis, it was all about joy.
Kamala Harris’s historic campaign for president was transformative in part because of the warmth and connection she brought to the campaign trail, Willis says.”
To read the full story, visit NYU News.
01/06/2025
We’re happy to announce that DPI Chair, Dr. Deborah Willis, is teaching at in beautiful Snowmass Village, CO, this summer, and registration opens today!
Nestled in the Rocky Mountains, Anderson Ranch Arts Center is a vibrant hub of creative energy where artists come together to explore, learn, and grow. Join me for a workshop about photography and let’s have some fun!
Registration opens today, so don’t wait!
Workshop: Master Class: Translating the Photograph through Memory
Dates: June 30 - July 4, 2025
Secure your spot now at www.andersonranch.org/workshops.
12/18/2024
Thank you to everyone who showed support for the release of Dr. Willis and Kevin Merida’s book, Kamala: Her Historic, Joyful, and Auspicious Sprint to the White House!
Now available for purchase at simonandschuster@com.
12/05/2024
DPI’s book of the month is “Cahiers #8” by Bayeté Ross Smith.
Cahiers #8 of the Mougins Center of Photography takes a historical look at the Black Panther Party movement and its assistance programmes, with photographs by Stephen Shames. The series by the artist Bayeté Ross Smith also examines the representation of the African-American community. Texts by activist Ericka Huggins and lawyer Paul David Henderson echo contemporary history.
On sale in the Mougins Center of Photography store.
11/15/2024
Photographs taken by Will Lulu in Professor Mark Jenkinson’s Advanced Lighting class.
11/11/2024
Shoreditch Arts Club invites you to the official book launch and showcase of photographer and DPI Alum, Ayesha Kazim’s () first photo book, “This Home of Ours.” This analog documentary series examines the ever-evolving landscape of Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap neighbourhood at the intersection of land, religion, and identity.
Shoreditch Arts Club
6 Redchurch Street, E2 7DD
November 19th, 7 - 9 p.m.
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Our Story
The Department of Photography & Imaging at Tisch is a four-year BFA program centered on the making and understanding of images. Students explore photo-based imagery as personal and cultural expression. The program offers students both the intensive focus of an arts curriculum while demanding a serious and broad grounding in the liberal arts. It is a diverse department embracing multiple perspectives; the 140 majors work in virtually all modes of analog and digital photo-based image making and multimedia.
Our faculty and staff consist of artists, commercial and documentary photographers, designers, critics, historians, and scholars, offer a wide range of perspectives. Alumni from the department go on to exhibit their work in galleries and museums; publish in national newspapers and magazines; pursue graduate degrees; become art critics; work as documentary photographers and photojournalists, filmmakers, graphic designers, web designers, picture editors, and educators; work in computer graphics and multimedia; and work in museums, educational, and community art settings.
The course offerings are extensive and varied in both the studio and critical studies area. Working with faculty advisors, students tailor a program that is best suited to their interests and goals. The curriculum of studio and critical studies courses is aimed to teach students how to think critically, to see and to find their individual vision in order to adapt and excel in a constantly evolving field.
“Photography and Imaging provides a rigorous academic environment where critical thinkers, both art and documentary image-makers, can thrive. The students here cultivate their skills and nourish their creativity in a small community where studio practice is immersed in liberal studies.
Our graduates are connected to the many worlds of photography and imaging, including photojournalism, art photography, archiving, curating, commercial photography, advertising, academia and publishing. To study photography in New York City is to be at the center of a metropolis where the photo lens becomes your insight into visual experience, including neighborhoods such as the fashion, financial, or meatpacking districts; galleries and museums; individuals; urban life; nightlife; theater; and Central Park. Students explore photo-based imagery as personal and cultural expression.”
-Deborah Willis, Ph.D., Chair
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