New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Photography & Imaging: BFA Thesis Exhibition

Grace Bader Conrad

Featuring: Danny Arensberg, Shea Baasch, Ethan Thomas Barrett, Julie Benatar, Somalia Bryant, Ashley Cho, Alex Cohen, Grace Bader Conrad, Finn Crawford, Vince Criniti, Francesca DiMiceli, Ava Emmons, Jialing Gao, Yul Han, Seyeon Jeong, Jamie Kimura, Jenny Le, Patrick Gil Lespinasse, Jacob Levine, Phoenix-Li McHayle, Oba Oluwehinmi, Jada Rodriguez, Chloe Victoria Rodriguez, Ryan Rogers, Beyoncé Rose, Stevia Roxanne, Jadah Sanders, Luiz Simione, Grace Anthony Smidt, Caroline F. Solakian, Tamara Tsehai Tesfai, Ava Jade Thornton, Tommy Long Tran, Lily Meidi Updike, Chenlei Wang, Kaitlyn Wigmore, Baiyi Wu, Jinkai Wu, Cleo Yao, Arki Johnson Yu, Nadine Zhan, Jerry Zhao

The 2025 DPI BFA Thesis Exhibition presents 42 artistic thesis projects, featuring everything from photographs, images, videos, and books to sounds, installations, and interactive experiences. The artists in this year’s graduating class go above and beyond traditional notions of photography, blurring the lines between mediums, materials, and fields of knowledge to redefine what it means to be a photographer, an artist, and a student in a constantly evolving world. Their work addresses contemporary themes of identity, the body, place, time, spirituality, technology, memory, and globalization, and serves as their capstone project, providing just a peek into what they’ve learned during their time at NYU, a school that fosters global perspectives and critical thinkers.

Organizations

NYU Tisch Department of Photography and Imaging

The Department of Photography and Imaging (DPI) in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University is a four-year B.F.A. program situated in New York City. Centered on the making and understanding of images, DPI offers students both the intensive focus of an arts curriculum and a grounding in the liberal arts. We embrace multiple perspectives, and our majors work in virtually all modes of analog and digital photo-based image making, multimedia, new media, and post-photographic 3D simulation technologies. The studio work is accompanied by a wide-ranging critical studies curriculum. Our alums have gone on to work in a wide variety of creative fields. They are artists, documentary makers, journalists, fashion and editorial photographers, filmmakers, cinematographers, educators, writers, activists, craftspeople, coders, web designers, art directors, graphic designers, book designers and publishers, art historians, curators, art dealers, arts administrators, archivists, and more.

Like all the departments at Tisch, our students come from all over the world with different outlooks and desires. We embrace those differences, and we are proud that there is no single defining look to our student work. We foster personal vision and offer a curriculum that is demanding but allows students the flexibility to take advantage of courses throughout the university. We want DPI to be a site of invention where our students are encouraged to think and see as well as engage with and understand the power of visual culture. We believe in the power of photography to celebrate diversity and intersectionality, and to address racism, gender discrimination, and all forms of intolerance.