All Past Events

Louis Carlos Bernal: Retrospectiva presents some 125 photographs by the pioneering Chicanx photographer active in the 1970s and 1980s, focusing on his moving portrayals of Mexican American people living in the barrios of Tucson and throughout the Southwest.

Fashioning Self: The Photography of Everyday Expression examines the role of photography in shaping, sharing, and shifting identity.

Inspired by Linda McCartney’s plant-based movement and Mary McCartney’s contemporary project “Mary McCartney Serves It Up!,” CCP will bring our community together for creative experiences and meaningful connections through food, photographs, and conversation.

Visit CCP for the Opening Day and enjoy the North American premiere of The Linda McCartney Retrospective, photography by her beloved teacher, Hazel Larsen Archer, an image+sound installation co-created with Arizona Arts Live, and hands-on activities.

Curated by members of the photographer’s family, this exhibition covers Linda McCartney’s whole career, from 1965 to 1997. The range of works in the exhibition, including never-before-seen Tucson views, reflect the spontaneity and ease of her photographic style. 

Sessions on Creative Photography is one comprehensive look at the boundary-breaking career of Hazel Larsen Archer, from her instrumental work in photography within mid century avant-garde art circles to her transformative approach to photo education.

Inspired by Linda McCartney’s plant-based movement and Mary McCartney’s contemporary project “Mary McCartney Serves It Up!,” CCP will bring our community together for creative experiences and meaningful connections through food, photographs, and conversation.

The School of Art, Arizona Arts, and the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, are excited to invite you to our third symposium on Asian photography, a full day virtual symposium entitled “Photography and Southeast Asia: History and Practice.” This symposium is free and open to the public.

{POSTPONED}  Sama Alshaibi and Dr. Deborah Willis will take an immersive look into the visual and identity politics of portraiture and self-portraiture, into imagining the body as a setting in which political and personal narratives intersect and unfold.

Join us for a lecture by Graciela Iturbide as she discusses her immense 50+ year career in photography, co-hosted by Etherton Gallery and the Center for Creative Photography, with consecutive interpretation by Jaime Fatás Cabeza.

Richard Avedon: Relationships, envisioned by Chief Curator Rebecca Senf for the Tucson galleries of the Center for Creative Photography in 2018, has been expanded and will go on view in Milan, Italy starting this September.

Photographer Alanna Airitam and author Kirsten Imani Kasai discuss the experience of being photographed as a subject for The Golden Age and the dynamics of race, identity, belonging, and colorism as it pertains to this photographic series as well as their independent works of art and literature.

Why Color? is the first class residency piloted by the Center for Creative Photography + Art & Visual Culture Education in the School of Art. Simultaneously a classroom and installation, the project launches in early September inviting University of Arizona graduate students in the course “Participatory Practices and Edu-Curation in Exhibitions” to design an exhibition from CCP’s collection of color photography.

And Let it Remain So: Women of the African Diaspora brings together the work of five photographers who explore their experiences of the African Diaspora and its influence on their understandings of identity, community, place, and displacement. 

Join Film Fest Tucson and The Center for Creative Photography for a print viewing and film screening on the topic of infamous photographer Eadweard Muybridge.

The CCP archives will host a pop-up display that will delve deeper into the collections to provide additional context and opportunities for exploring photographers’ engagement of trees.

In partnership with the Loft Cinema we are pleased to partner for their signature series, Science on Screen to present the film The Hidden Life of Trees in conjunction with CCP's exhibition trees stir in their leaves. 

Tucson-based photographer Alanna Airitam’s photographic project, “The Golden Age” celebrates a vision of Black Americans that is uplifting, inspiring, and empowering. In ten luscious and elegant large-scale portraits the artist features contemporary African American people as symbolic saints who are simultaneously magnificent and powerful.