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Join us October 28 @columbiachi when photographer and artist @tobishinobi breaks down Finding Your Perspective: building a visual voice, editing and presenting your work, and positioning yourself for the kind of clients and projects you actually want.

Tobi Shinobi is an award-winning photographer, videographer and creative strategist based between London and Chicago.

He has worked with Audi, Adobe and Sony, is a former Sony Global Imaging Ambassador and Adobe Lightroom Ambassador, and spent five years as Lead Creative Strategist at TikTok. With 175,000 followers across social platforms, his work is held in the permanent collection at Grand Valley State University, has been shown in Times Square and at SCOPE Miami Beach, and in 2026 he presented his solo exhibition A Shinobi Called Tobi in Madrid.

He is an MFA candidate at the @saicphotography and serves on the Museum Council at the @mocpchi

Register with the 🔗 in our bio - students with ID are free!!

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Exciting zine exchange and a new selection of work in the display case organized by Structuring/Sequencing/Series - go check it out!

Looked up to Tony Cokes “Let Yourself Be Free”

Full house for the first Parlor Room lecture with Pixy Liao!

and so many pigeons at the California stop!

Just another Monday at SAIC
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For current @saicphoto and @saicfashiondesign students!
Application for Spring 2027 FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY class is now open! (This is our 14th class since 2012. Wow)

PHOTO 3005/FASH 3105 Fashion Photography
THURSDAY, 9AM-3PM
Instructors: Mayumi Lake & Donald Yoshida
Class objectives are to provide students with an opportunity to work through the process of concept development, pre-production, fashion styling, hair & markup, set design, location scouting, studio & natural lighting techniques, digital post production, and how to capture the essence of the fashion theme through tested photography techniques. Garment silhouette, cut & construction, color, pattern and texture are key elements given consideration to clearly communicate the fashion design idea using the most up-to-date and effective photographic techniques. Editorial Photography themes are used in collaboration with Fashion students’ garments and class photo shoots are used throughout the Fashion Department’s annual award-winning “the Book” publication. Visits to professional fashion photographer studios, exhibition visits, and in-class lectures give students additional opportunities to discuss creative and technical topics being used today in fashion photography.

The application deadline is Sunday, October 18 by 11:59 PM. Students will be notified of acceptance on October 28.
Use page 2 QR code for more details and application form.

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Always exciting to spend time researching photobooks in the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection and my studio with Structuring/Sequencing/Series. So much to page through and reimagine📚
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I always love when this photo pops up from Frank Barsotti’s SAIC PHOTO retirement party❣️

from left to right - top row: Claire Pentecost (standing), Catherine Gass, Barbara Crane, Joyce Neimanas, Lewis Toby (kinda standing), Alan Labb (standing), John Miller (standing); sitting right of Joy: Frank Barsotti, Ken Josephson; Seated far left: Robert Heinecken, Robert Clarke-Davis, Barbara DeGenevieve, me, and Mayumi Lake (front & center)

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Last night’s photobook panel with Jiazazhi and Lightbox was inspiring! Both organizations saw a need and created meaningful opportunities to support artists making photobooks!

Based in Ningbo, China, Jiazazhi publishes photobooks by Chinese and international photographers and operates a library, bookstore, and event space, along with an annual artist book fair and publishing-related programs.

Lightbox, based in Taipei, is dedicated to preserving, researching, and promoting Taiwanese photography publications. The organization also supports emerging photographers through photography awards and a photography festival.

Be sure to check out the incredible exhibition organized by Dani Di in the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection:

East Asia Within Books: Our Lives is a student-curated exhibition presented in collaboration with the John M. Flaxman Library and Special Collections. The exhibition explores how artists use self-publishing to document everyday life in East Asia.

So many thoughtful conversations about photobooks, community, and how publishing can respond to a rapidly changing social environment. 📚📷

@saicphotography
@saic_library

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Inspiring conversation with Marzena Abrahamik and Sonja Thomsen at Filter Space! @saicphotography

Today is the last day to see FEEDING A SWAN TO A WOLF
RAGER: Marzena Abrahamik and Rebecca Kressley

LIGHT SLIP: ARCHIVE, ABSTRACTION, & PHENOMENA
Sonja Thomsen and Aaron R. Turner
On view through October 3rd

Gallery Reception is Sept 25th, 5 – 8pm

SONJA THOMSEN AND AARON R. TURNER
In Conversation at the 2026 Filter Festival on Sept 24th, 2026 from 1-2pm at Columbia College Chicago Student Center | 754 S Wabash Ave

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Had a blast with students in Structuring/Sequencing/Series. They organized the first exhibition of work collected from throughout the photography department. Go check out the display case on the second floor of 280!

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@saicphotography field trip (right across the street) to The Big Picture large format gallery show at the Renaissance Court Gallery in the Chicago Cultural Center (M-F, 10am to 5pm). Through Oct 2.

First day of class, faculty members @alanlabb and Oliver Sann took their students to the LF gallery show. Hope they enjoyed it.

Come on back - a couple more free events coming up. Including Artist's Reception, Thursday, Sept 24, 3 to 5 pm. Meet some of the artists, hear their stories, free food. What could be better?

#Photographiceducation
#largeformat
#viewcamera
#SAIC

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Today in College history highlights we celebrate Physics professor and pioneer in the study of holography, Dr. Tung Hon Jeong! 🥼

Dr. Jeong joined the faculty in 1963 and retired in 1997. He is credited with discovering the technology that made true-color holograms possible, and he created the first 360° degree holograms (viewable from any angle). He led summer Holography Workshops at the College for students of all ages, and with Encyclopedia Britannica created the 1972 film “Introduction to Holography.” (See last slide!)

Dr. Jeong immigrated to Texas from China as a 12-year-old boy in 1948. He received a full scholarship to Yale University, graduating in 1957. Next he earned a PhD in nuclear physics in 1962 from the University of Minnesota. Along with his achievements as a scientist and educator, he was an avid windsurfer and a college gymnast and cheerleader!

Contact the Archivist for more info, and be sure to check out the incredible Holography Gallery on the first floor of Lillard!

#lakeforestcollege #holograph #archives

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INCUBATOR is excited to welcome you all back for the new year with our first exhibition of the Fall 2026 semester!

'Stay In or Out' by MFA Graduate Ariel J. Cobbert (@ajchere) opens in the Sharp Lobby on August 31! At the heart of Cobbert's practice is what she calls capturing the exhale. Quiet, unperformed moments where peace is found in solitude and safety. Presence that isn't about presentation, but simply about existing. Working across photography, Cobbert draws on family archives, vernacular aesthetics, and the everyday rituals of Black Southern life. Her work investigates how Black life has been recorded, and how it has been obscured. 'Stay In or Out' anchors a body of work built on a singular truth. Black people in the South didn't just survive, they thrived. Her work challenges the narrative that Black existence in the South can only be linked to violence. Instead, it offers an archive of fullness, rest, and joy, even as it acknowledges the erasure that has always worked against it.

Join us for an reception celebrating the opening of the exhibition on Monday, August 31 from 4-6 p.m.!

#ChicagoArtists #Photography #MFA #StudentExhibition

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COMING SOON
to Sean Christopher Gallery
@seanchristophergallery
815 N High St, Columbus OH

IMAGE
Only to Realize, photography
by Samuel Lo
@sam_g_lo

https://facebook.com/events/s/samuel-lo-seen-in-the-light-kn/1709311937066777/
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