LENSCRATCH

Each installment of In Focus: The MFA Review highlights a different MFA program for photographic artists, offering readers a concise overview of its identity, curriculum, faculty, student experience, financial support, and post-graduation outcomes. It also serves as a showcase of the creative work produced by faculty, students, and alumni. Rather than functioning as rankings ...

Thomas Werner is the author of The Business of Fine Art Photography, Routledge, New York; The Fashion Image, Bloomsbury Publishing, London; and Twenty One Summers, co-authored with former Microsoft Search and AI team leader Derrick Connell. In addition, he is an editor at large for IRK magazine, a Paris-based print publication and website, and board

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Every August we ask the previous Top 25 Lenscratch Student Prize Winners to interview a hero or a mentor, offering an opportunity for conversation and connection. Today Christian Lee and Jamel Shabazz are in dialogue. Thank you to both of the artists. We all have our heroes, and I had the privilege to dialogue with mine: Mr.Jamel

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Every August we ask the previous Top 25 Lenscratch Student Prize Winners to interview a hero or a mentor, offering an opportunity for conversation and connection. Today Misael Hernandez and Cole Barash are in dialogue. Thank you to both of the artists. I was introduced to Cole Barash’s work in the last year of my MFA

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Archives, fieldwork, teaching, directing a new MFA program, piloting a climate-conscious coalition across the UC system, directing Unseen California, contributing to a festival for Earth Day at UCSC, Karolina Karlic‘s practice and ecological engagement have long been a deep source of inspiration. In her ongoing Rubberlands series, the artist’s delicate, patient, and humanisti...