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CCS Photo is excited to welcome Aaron Turner (@aturn_arkdelta) to campus as the first lecturer in this year’s Visiting Artist Series! Join us on Tuesday, October 27, 11:30am-12:30pm in W107. All CCS community members welcome, free lunch!

Aaron Turner is an artist, educator, and independent curator based in southeast Michigan. His work centers around photography, archives, geometric abstraction, improvisation, and aesthetic elements of music. In May of 2025, he released his most recent book, The Archive as Liberation, which brings together a dynamic group of artists and writers to engage in dialogue around archival photographic methods. He most recently joined the University of Michigan’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design as an assistant professor.

He holds an MA from Ohio University and an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Museum Of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, George Eastman Museum, Houston Center for Photography, Light Work, Penumbra Foundation, SF Cameraworks, Photo Access Australia, Filter Photo, and Center for Photography at Woodstock.

@ccs_detroit by @ccs_photodept

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Congratulations to recent CCS Photo Alum Adriana Sapia on their beautiful new work made as an Artist-in-Residence at @lamaisondebeaumont in Provence, France last month 🇫🇷

@adrianasapiaphotography ➡️ “A little piece of what I created in Provence, inspired by the quiet of the countryside, the softness of the light, and the feeling of slowing down enough to imagine what could be.

Photographed during my residency at La Maison de Beaumont. @lamaisondebeaumont

Dress: @flamingovintagedetroit”

@ccs_alumni_detroit by @ccs_photodept

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Congratulations to CCS Photo alum Sam Gulliver, who was announced as the 2026 Daylight Photo Awards Winner for his Senior Thesis portfolio “Not Really Now (Not Anymore). Congratulations Sam! 🎉🎉🎉

Repost @_sam_gulliver_ @daylightbooks:
Not Really Now (Not Anymore) is about the personal and cultural tensions I associate with the Midwest region of America, the place I call home. Rather than treating the region as empty or forgotten, I see it as a setting rich with stories that speak to a broader sense of unease in American life.

Inspired by Gothic imagery and themes, the work touches on ideas like hauntings, ruins, and historical trauma, as well as what theorist Mark Fisher called “the slow cancellation of the future”; the creeping sense that time has stalled, the future never arrived, leaving us to continuously relive the past. The Midwest, in this sense, becomes a fable for a larger cultural disorientation.

The project reflects on how the region handles its past: civil war reenactments that mix celebration with discomfort, Indigenous lands turned into tourist attractions, and hometowns of serial killers that have become part of local lore. These scenes explore how history is remembered, reshaped, and sometimes ignored.

At its heart, this project is also about reckoning with what it means to be from the Midwest, how the region’s history informs identity, and how its contradictions shape daily life. It’s a personal attempt to look closely at the myths I grew up with and the realities that exist alongside them.

The resulting images move between the surreal and the everyday, blending fact and fiction, past and present. The work carries an eerie tone, but it’s grounded in a genuine effort to understand a place that feels both familiar and strange.

Not Really Now (Not Anymore) is available as a digital portfolio through the Daylight Books website.”

@ccs_alumni_detroit taken in College for Creative Studies by @ccs_photodept

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We’re excited to welcome Kylie Zito back to campus this year as an Alumni Mentor in the Photography Department!

Kylie will be mentoring in our Darkroom I class, but please introduce yourself if you see her in the halls!

@kyliezito.jpg is a fine artist based in Detroit, Michigan, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the College for Creative Studies. Her work delves into themes of womanhood, human experience, and belonging, crafting powerful visual narratives. Kylie’s work challenges conventional perspectives, celebrating the complexity of identity and encouraging deep introspection and personal reflection. As her artistic voice evolves, she remains dedicated to creating evocative pieces that foster connection, empathy, and understanding.

@ccs_alumni_detroit by @ccs_photodept

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Wanna get into the darkroom? Sign up for our Continuing Ed Darkroom Class!

Link in bio to register ☝️

This hands-on course, taught by the amazing @drewberzzz, runs from Oct 3-Nov 21.

Photograph with film cameras, develop your own negatives, and create beautiful black-and-white prints. Explore the fundamentals of composition, exposure, and manual camera techniques while experimenting with creative processes in the darkroom. Perfect for beginners or more advanced students looking to get back in the darkroom.

$325 plus $45 studio/darkroom fee
Ages 16+

PHOTOSENIOR 10% off tuition for ages 60+
PHOTOALUMNI 20% off tuition for CCS grads

Images by @gabrielabaginski @slumdog_visionaire @jamesada.ms by @ccs_photodept

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And we’re back! The school year has officially begun back at @ccs_detroit but @ccs_precollege has been keeping things busy over the summer. Here are a couple snaps from the Large Format Photography Maker’s Weekend that happened over the summer with the wonderful @carlsonproductionsllc 📸 taken in College for Creative Studies by @ccs_photodept

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Reposted from @slumdog_visionaire who we were lucky to have teach one of our pre-college photo classes this summer! The work never stops 📸

“Never skip art class.

Spent the week with amiyahfilmedit and @ccs_precollege summer students cameras in hand, learning the language before they ever touch a client. Day one: copying rules off a whiteboard. By the end: crouched on a sewing floor, chasing light through a factory window, no permission needed.

That’s the shift. Not teaching a tool. Teaching an eye.

Every Memory Engineer starts here.
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🎥 shoot by @nasir__johnson” taken in College for Creative Studies by @ccs_photodept

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💥 Optics, Glass, and Image with @kimharty is back this fall!

Interested in photography, video, installation, performance, painting, sculpture, or new media? This course explores glass as a creative tool for making images.

Experiment with:
✨ glass and color
🔍 lenses and magnification
🌈 light, reflection, and projection
📷 photography & video
🪞 glass as screens, filters, and image-makers
🎨 sculptural and installation-based projects

No previous glass experience is required, just curiosity and a willingness to experiment.

If you’re interested in working across disciplines and pushing how images can be created, this class is for you.

Questions? Email kharty@ccsdetroit.edu by @ccs_photodept

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Last week students from @ccs_photodept visited the San Francisco Bay Area for a whirlwind development trip! Thank you to everyone who took the time to meet with us and show the students what life looks like after graduation, everyone’s generosity was truly amazing 🙏🙏🙏

Big thanks to:
@tbwbooks
@thrashermag
@fraenkelgallery
@kyle_kyle_kyle_kyle_kyle_kyle_
@toddhido_
@vanessa_woods_studio
@hainesgallery
@sfcamerawork
@casemoregallery taken in San Francisco, California by @ccs_photodept

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Sneak peek of this year’s Photo SEO display, opening this Friday from 6-10pm! Come join us to celebrate the work of our amazing students this year!!! 🙌

The photography display is located on the first floor and lower level in the WB Ford Building of the Ford campus, come find us!

@ccs_detroit taken in College for Creative Studies by @ccs_photodept

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Congratulations to our amazing Photo Seniors who had their final reviews this week!! 🙌🙌🙌 and thank you so much to @kapfohl and @chri.sto.pher for joining us as guest reviewers 🙏🙏🙏

We are going to miss this crew in the photo basement!!!

@hex_codes_
@seewhat.i.seee
@logansheffer.photo
@kyliezito
@emasphotos
@zackdannunzio
@cailyn.christine
@avavoelker_photography
@kamari_crenshaw

@ccs_detroit
@ccs_alumni_detroit taken in College for Creative Studies by @ccs_photodept

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This Earth Day I’m feeling incredibly grateful for this crew, all the things we’ve learned this semester at @ccs_detroit, and our progress building the Garden Lab for Eco-Creative Futures at @creativebodyinstitute. It’s been a dream to teach this course and incorporate more sustainability into our photography and art-making. The work is never done, and there are many failed experiments along the way, but there is a brighter path ahead as we strive to live in balance with each other and our delicate ecosystem 🌿

Please join us for the pop-up exhibition NEW DIRT this Friday, April 24, 5-8pm at 1144 Pingree Street in Detroit to see work made by the students and their mentors this semester and get a sneak peek of the garden so far! by @ccs_photodept

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