Westphal College of Media Arts & Design Photography Professor Andrea Modica is known for using a distinctive technique to photograph her subjects that requires a great deal of patience. Eschewing the latest technology, Modica uses […]
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Drexel Snapshot: Photography Senior Thesis Exhibition Highlights
Drexel seniors from the Photography program in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design put their skills on display at the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery during the 21st Annual Photography Senior Thesis Exhibition. Skilled, […]
A Dramatic Shift in the World of Photography
Photographer Harvey Wang began taking pictures as a teenager. He was mid-career when the tools of his trade were made virtually obsolete with the transition from film to digital. In a new film, “From Darkroom […]
A Portal to an Unexpected World
Photographer Stuart Rome has always had a unique perspective on the world. From the early days of his career photographing ancient art treasures in Latin America or contemporary trance rituals in Haiti and Indonesia, he became […]
A Haunting Look at Human Beings
In 1993, prison inmates breaking ground for a new hospital wing at the Colorado Mental Health Institute made a gruesome discovery: the skeletons of more than 100 people buried in a mass grave at least […]
Meet Camden’s Witnesses to Hunger: Photographing Hope Amid Desolation
This week, a photo exhibit at the headquarters of the Campbell Soup Company marked the debut of the Camden, N.J. site of Drexel’s “Witnesses to Hunger” program. Photos from 10 low-income Camden women were on […]
What Does it Mean to be Black?
As symbolized by the second inauguration of President Barack Obama on Martin Luther King Jr. day, many consider America to have entered an era of racial reconciliation. But in this so-called “post-racial” society, what does […]