Ringling College Photography and Imaging

Join us tonight May 1st at the Stulberg gallery from 5-8pm for the Photography and Imaging senior thesis exhibition. This collaborative showcase features works from our senior class:

Julia Sankar
Kayce Jensen
Maddy Getty
Savannah Carrol
Cecilia Marty

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Senior thesis Showcase 🤗📸

Cecilia: Painted Faces & Palmettos is Cecilia Marty’s labor of love, a love for the circus, and more specifically the clowns that are the face of it.

In her thesis Painted Faces & Palmettos, Marty explores the fading history of clowning through her environment of Sarasota, FL. She does through documenting and collecting images and ephemera relating to the rich clowning community in the area.

See more of her work here:
https://www.cecilia4photography.com

See more of Cecilias work at the photography & imaging senior thesis Exhibition on May 1st at the Stulberg gallery at Ringling College!!

Senior thesis Showcase 🤗📸

Savannah: Savannah Carroll’s work, Perversion, confronts the tension between a conditioned body and a self that endured beneath that conditioning. Raised in the American South, she learned early that the body was not entirely her own. Maintained, monitored, and performed for an audience that called its surveillance love. In this work, identity is withheld, the body remains visible, but the self stays just out of reach. This is not a meditation on loss. It is an act of repossession.

See more of Savannah’s work at the photography & imaging senior thesis Exhibition on May 1st at the Stulberg gallery at Ringling College!!

Senior thesis Showcase 🤗📸

Maddy Getty: Grief lives quietly in the back of our minds. Showing up in memories, silence, and unexpected moments long before we can even began to understand loss. It became real for me through the passing of my grandparents, reshaping how I see love, time, and life.

This documentary project explores grief within my family and myself through photographs and conversations in spaces tied to memory, loss, and comfort. Rooted in honesty and vulnerability, it focuses on emotional truth how grief is expressed, carried, and how it reshapes us.

This is not about closure, but presence. It’s about the small, ordinary moments that hold deep meaning and the ways we continue to honor those we’ve lost. Life Everlasting captures grief as something lived, shared, and carried forward.

See more of Maddy’s work at the photography & imaging senior thesis Exhibition on May 1st at the Stulberg gallery at Ringling College!!

Senior Thesis Showcase🤗📸

Kayce Jensen: “Who are you becoming beneath the weight of everything you’ve survived?”

Among Sleeping Roots is a self-portrait project by Kayce Jensen where she creates a metaphorical garden to visually recreate the weight of trauma, burdens, and personal experiences. Not to create an autobiography of her pain, but to create space for collective empathy among each other. 

If you would like to see more from Kayce Jensen, her website is www.kaycejensenphotography.com, and kaycejphotography on Instagram and TikTok. 

See more of Kayces work at the photography & imaging senior thesis Exhibition on May 1st at the Stulberg gallery at Ringling College!!

Senior thesis Showcase 🤗📸

Julia Sankar: Mangoes and Lemongrass Tea is an exploration of my feelings towards displacement and the memories I have rediscovered through reexamining my personal histories and contradictions. Moving from Antigua to the U.S. caused homesickness, missing my community, and the rural environment. I experienced culture shock for the first time, leaving me disoriented in an unfamiliar culture. I felt disconnected, never fully comfortable being myself. This prompted me to reflect on how I felt and currently feel, asking myself whether this self-awareness will now lead me to act, or whether my forced assimilation has already taken hold.

See more of Julia’s work at the photography & imaging senior thesis Exhibition on May 1st at the Stulberg gallery at Ringling College!!

The Photography and Imaging Department proudly presents In a Flash, recent work by students in the Portraiture & Fashion class, PHOT 301. Please join us for the opening this Friday, March 27, from 5:00-8:00 p.m. on the second floor of the Cooley Photography Center.

From runway shows to magazine editorials, the students have been studying recent fashion and editorial trends, as well as various lighting styles and portraiture approaches to create dynamic and contemporary images. Students also filmed and created videos showcasing contemporary fashion trends.

Exhibiting students include: Vi Anderson, Kaitlyn Carey, Taz Fillie, Yazmin Jarrin, Riley Moore, and Katya Nalitkina.

Faculty contact: Selina Román (she/her), faculty, Photography and Imaging Department, [email protected]

Save the date! The Photography and Imaging Department is pleased to announce a lecture by visual artist Marcus DeSieno, Thursday, December 11. The lecture will take place on the first floor of the Cooley Photography Center from 11:30 to 12:30 p.m. and lunch will be provided.

Through the medium of photography, DeSieno investigates institutions of power. DeSieno’s work uses historic and experimental analog photographic processes to create conversations between power and history. He is Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.

DeSieno’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at the Aperture Foundation in New York, Paris Photo, The Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece, The Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki, Finland and various other galleries and museums. His work has also been featured in a variety of publications including The British Journal of Photography, The Boston Globe, GUP Magazine, Hyperallergic, National Geographic, The Washington Post, and Wired among others. His first monograph, No Man’s Land: Views From a Surveillance State, was published by Daylight Books.