“Apparatus of Discomfort” is an exploration of the photographic potential to reimagine relationships between bodies and feeling through abstraction, infrastructure, and identity.
A pioneer in art and design education for more than a century, Parsons School of Design is one of the most prestigious and comprehensive colleges of art and design in the world. Critical thinking, collaboration, and reflective practice are at the heart of a Parsons education. Located in the heart of New York City, the school offers undergraduate and graduate programs in the full spectrum of design disciplines. A student-centered curriculum allows for both focused and interdisciplinary learning to master concepts, technologies, and research methods that cut across a wide array of fields. By synthesizing theory with craft, and combining art and design studies with the liberal arts and business, Parsons prepares its students to shape scholarship in their field and make art and design that matters. Its faculty of notable artists, design practitioners, critics, historians, writers, and scholars exemplify an extraordinary breadth of vision. The graduate Photography program functions as a 21st-century studio and think tank. The goal of the 26-month program is to prepare graduates to define the creative role of photography within contemporary culture, as practicing artists and scholars. Challenging participants to move beyond current paradigms—to anticipate and set trends, rather than follow them.
This exhibition was curated from current students from the MFA Photography Program at Parsons School of Design in New York City.
Learn MoreA Quality Of Light – to channel Audre Lorde – “has direct bearing” on what the photograph brings forth into the world, and, in turn, on what the artist aspires to contribute to the complex image universe.
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A Deliberate Impression features the work of current MFA photography students from Parsons School of Design in New York City.
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Learn MoreRecent works by Parsons Masters of Fine Arts in Photography students.
An exploration of relationships mediated by photography with work by current students in Parsons MFA Photography Program.
Learn More“Apparatus of Discomfort” is an exploration of the photographic potential to reimagine relationships between bodies and feeling through abstraction, infrastructure, and identity.
What matters most for contemporary photography today? Parsons MFA Photo students were tasked with collectively generating and agreeing on three words that address this question. Their astute responses form the basis for the group exhibition “Keywords For Contemporary Photography: Privacy, Space, Voice” presented as part of Photoville 2016.
Learn MoreShared value is a management strategy to measure business value by identifying and addressing social problems that intersect with their business.
Learn MoreAmerican Exile is a series of photographs and interviews documenting the stories of immigrants who have been ordered deported from the United States, as well as their family members – often, American citizens – who suffer the consequences of the harsh punishment of exile.
Learn MoreDialogue features the work of current MFA Photography students from Parsons The New School for Design.
Learn MoreWhat would a person in complete isolation want to see? Men in solitary confinement at Tamms supermax prison in Illinois were asked to request a photograph of anything in the world, real or imagined, and Tamms Year Ten found photographers to make the images.
Learn MoreThe works in this exhibition represent the collective conversation being undertaken by this current generation of emerging artists. These artists are unapologetic in their pursuit to locate themselves and activate their ideas in this rapidly evolving world.
Learn MoreWork from current MFA Photography students at Parsons The New School of Design will be featured in the exhibition “Charterparty: Works by 1st and 2nd year MFA Photography students from Parsons The New School for Design“.
Learn MoreThe one-day symposium will include a series of panel discussions, featuring scholars, artists, curators and centered around archiving and elevating the voices of women and non-binary of photographers of African descent, as part of Photoville’s annual Festival in New York City.
Learn MoreThe symposium keynote discussion featuring Dr. Deborah Willis and Joy Gregory as they explore the vital role of archiving, preserving, and exploring photography and visual culture within African American, Black British, and the broader African diaspora.
Learn MoreA dynamic panel of scholars and visual artists explored photography as a research-based practice from the diverse viewpoints of artists who are reshaping artistic landscapes with innovative and transformative perspectives and praxis.
Learn MoreCreative and innovative panelist navigate the complexities of identity, unravel historical narratives, and celebrate the multifaceted experiences of womanhood.
Learn MoreA cutting-edge and inspiring group of artists share their perspectives to provoke thought and action, driven by their innovative catalogues of documentary photography and photojournalism.
Learn MoreThe “Photo Requests from Solitary” event at Photoville brings together artists, activists, journalists, and survivors of solitary confinement. This panel discussion with accompanying slide show will introduce audiences to the reality of torture taking place in their own backyards, while exploring the power of photography to humanize one of the most marginalized group of people in our society, educate the public and the press, and spur social change on one of our most pressing domestic human rights issues.
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