Lecture

The Center for Creative Photography, in collaboration with the University of Arizona's Center for East Asian Studies, the College of Humanities, and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, presents "2086: Together How?," a keynote lecture by Prof. Park Kyong in the CCP Auditorium on January 19, 2024, at 5:30 pm. The lecture is part of the "Embracing Counternarratives for Global Learning" for the 8th Annual Globalizing the Community College Curricula Conference on January 19-20, 2024. 

Prof. Park Kyong's exhibition, co-curated with Jung Soik, 2086: Together How? asks "how we might work together to endure current and future environmental crises until 2086 when the global population is said to the peak." He will discuss his commissioned exhibition and participation in the Korean Pavilion at the 18th International Venice Architecture Biennale.  

Join us for this one-of-a-kind event!

Biography: Park Kyong has been a professor at the University of California San Diego since 2007 and the founding director of StoreFront for Art and Architecture in New York (1982-1998), a curator of Gwangju Biennale (1997), Artistic Director and Chief Curator of Anyang Public Art Project (2010), both in South Korea. His solo exhibitions include Kyong Park: New Silk Road at MUSAC in León, Spain (2009-10) and Imagining New Eurasia, a sequence of three research art exhibitions at the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea (2015-18).

Screening of Witnesses to Democracy: The Journey of a Mother and a Photographer & Conversation with Kim Newton and Dr. Jeehey Kim

Witnesses to Democracy: the Journey of a Mother and a Photographer is an award-winning documentary film that tells the story of three people brought together by the tragic killing of college student Lee Han-yeol, whose death propelled the South Korean Democracy movement in June 1987. The film introduces us to Eunshim Bai, the mother of the slain student, Professor Emeritus Kim Newton, and Woo Seokhun. Newton, a former freelance photographer in Seoul, returned to South Korea a few years ago in the midst of a modern-day social uprising to participate in the making of this important social documentary.

This remarkable documentary was produced by the Korean director Manjin Kim. Kim's distinctive directing style is highly regarded within the Korean documentary professional community. His ability to deeply connect with the main characters, the sophisticated use of music, and his profound interest in South Korea's modern history and society have had a lasting impact on young South Korean documentary filmmakers.

After the conclusion of this film, there will be a Q&A session with Kim Newton, UA Photojournalism Prof. Emeritus, and Dr. Jeehey Kim, Photography History Professor in the UA School of Art. Do not miss this unique chance to be part of the conversation with one of the witnesses of the Korean democratic movement in the context of contemporary Korean photography!

This event is held with the support of the UA School of Journalism. It is free and open to the public.

Screening of "Tour of Duty" & Conversation with Film Directors

Center for Creative Photography and the University of Arizona Center for East Asian Studies proudly present the award-winning film "Tour of Duty" (2012) screening on November 30th in the CCP auditorium. Afterward, stay for a riveting Q&A with directors Kim Dongryung and Park Kyoungtae.

"Tour of Duty" centers on the life stories of the three former military sex workers who use their cameras to recollect their memories in the military camp towns in post-colonial South Korea. From 1945-1948, the U.S. and the Soviet Union occupied the country after their independence from Japan, and North and South Korea were separated. The Korean War broke out two years later, intensifying Cold War tensions and solidifying the U.S. defense line against potential communist invasion for the next seven decades, up to the present day.

Don't miss this opportunity to broaden your understanding of such a complex topic and to participate in this unique conversation!

This event is free and open to the public.

The International Symposium on Korean Photography is co-organized by the Center for Creative Photography and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, in collaboration with the School of Art. The symposium, held at the CCP auditorium, focuses on the state of contemporary Korean photography. 

Saturday, November 18th: The first day of the symposium includes two panel discussions and a roundtable with various esteemed speakers, including but not limited to Dr. Park Pyungjong, Professor, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea; Dr. Kim Youngmin, Professor, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; Zhao Yechen, Assistant Curator of Photography, Art Institute of Chicago; Linde Lehtinen, Curator of Photography, Huntington Library; Dr. Kim Jeehey, Assistant Professor, University of Arizona; and Kim Namin, Curator, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. 

Saturday, November 19th: The last day features a highly anticipated panel discussion at 1:10 pm with photographers featured in the Wonders and Witness exhibition. Speakers include Kim Oksun, Gwon Doyeon, Oh Heinkuhn, and Yoon JeongMee. 

Register for the symposium here: https://koreanphotography.art.arizona.edu

Image: Oh Heinkuhn, A Boy with His Ear Hurt in Front of Lucky Club, 1993, 90 x 114.5cm, MMCA collection.

Join us on October 12 as the Center for Creative Photography, in collaboration with the Etherton Gallery, proudly present renowned photographer Takeshi Ishikawa to the stage at the CCP auditorium. Ishikawa will generously share his unique journey assisting W. Eugene Smith and Aileen Mioko Smith in crafting the iconic photographic masterpiece known as "Minamata."

In 1971, W. Eugene Smith returned to Japan with his wife, Aileen Mioko Smith, to photograph the environmental catastrophe in Minamata. Minamata, the small fishing village on the west coast of Japan, was polluted with mercury waste by the local plastic producer, Chisso. Local villagers experienced innumerable and irrevocable health diseases and deaths due to the contamination. 

Ishikawa's artist talk entitled "Bringing W. Eugene Smith's photo book "Minamata: A Warning to the World" to publication" recounts his fated encounter with W. Eugene Smith in a train station in Japan that led to three years of living and collaborating with the Smiths, including photographing behind the scene footage of the creation of the body of work. 

Take advantage of this extraordinary opportunity to witness this one-of-a-kind artist talk at the Center for Creative Photography.

This third and final installment of the Spring 2023 Lecture Series brings Dr. Sarah K. Khan to the Center for Creative Photography. Dr. Khan is an author, photographer, multi-media maker, and producer of Migrant Kitchens. Dr. Khan works at the crossroad of food, culture, and migration. Her solo, group exhibitions, and film screenings are available to browse on her website.

In this lecture, "Contemporary Migrant Kitchens: Empty-Handed Not Empty-Headed," Dr. Khan discusses her project "Migrant Kitchens," a series of short films from 2015-2017 on migrants in Queens, NY. An on-going project, Dr. Khan created the work to highlight the obstacles hard working citizens face, daily, in the most diverse community in the world. Dr. Khan also shares how she created the project, the multiple media she uses to story tell, and the larger impact the media morsels have on select Queens residents and their communities at large.

Dr. Khan’s creations are informed by training in Middle Eastern history (BA), public health and nutrition (MPH, MS) and traditional ecological knowledge systems/plant sciences in South Asia and China (PhD). A two-time Fulbright scholar, Khan has been awarded artist residencies, grants, and fellowships. Her work has appeared in Museum of the Moving Image, Madison Children’s Museum, The Kimmel Gallery at NYU, Queens Museum, Asian Arts Initiative, Asian American Writers Workshop Open City, Roads and Kingdoms, Culinary Backstreets, The Art of Eating, and Modern Farmer.  

Inspired by global issues important to Linda McCartney, CCP’s Spring 2023 Lecture Series is generously sponsored by JP Morgan Chase & Co.

*All events are FREE and open to the public, with first-come, first-serve auditorium seating. 

Latinx Digital Humanities, with Dr. Leigh-Anna Hidalgo

Hispanic Serving Institute (HSI)-Public and Applied Humanities Artist-in-Residence, in collaboration with "El Pueblo Urban Humanities Studio," a Spring 2023 Public and Applied Humanities Course

About the Talk:

In this lecture, Dr. Hidalgo presents her groundbreaking work, Casos De Justicia, and the engaged digital humanities research methodology of augmented fotonovelas. Drawing from critical anthropology, Chicanx/Latinx visual cultural studies and the emerging field of urban humanities, Hidalgo provides students and guests with a case study that charts the ways research and co-creative practices shape activism and communities, and vice versa.

About Our Speaker:

Dr. Leigh-Anna Hidalgo is Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale. She received her PhD in Chicana/o and Central American Studies from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose scholarship integrates ethnographic methods, digital humanities, and Latinx geographies in analyzing contemporary urban labor struggles and resistance. Her forthcoming book, Abolitionist Marketplaces (under contract with Duke University Press), is based on a seven-year visual ethnography with the leaders of the Los Angeles Street Vending Campaign (LASVC). This book puts forward a new theoretical framework for analyzing how informal workers living under legal forms of violence center radical consciousness, self-care, and community-care to collectively organize and transform the urban spaces and city policies where they live and work. In addition, Hidalgo has an ongoing digital humanities project with the LASVC that draws on a visual research method she developed called augmented fotonovelas (photo-based comics) that utilizes augmented reality (AR) to merge ethnographic data with photography, audio, and video imagery so that multiple publics can “see” and “hear” aggrieved communities. Articles from these projects have recently been published in the Journal of Latino Studies and Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture. Born in Los Angeles, to a Salvadoran father and U.S. mother, she spent her childhood living between Guatemala and El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s. Currently she resides in CT with her husband and two children

About the Course:

PAH 200: Introduction to Public and Applied Humanities the “El Pueblo Urban Humanities Studio” is a Spring 2023 GE course that introduces students across disciplines to public humanities methodologies and case studies through an experiential urban humanities field studio in partnership with the Sunnyside Foundation, whose mission centers on service to Tucson’s Southside. Students will produce photo-based projects about the El Pueblo Neighborhood Center, a site established within the historical context of the Chicano movement of Tucson in the 60s/70s, that continues to this day to serve as a hub for social and metropolitan services and cultural empowerment in the predominantly Latinx Southside community. 

The course is also a collaboration with campus partners (the Center for Creative Photography, the Experiential Learning Design Accelerator Program and HSI Initiatives Faculty Seed Grant Program) which sponsored resources for the redesign of PAH 200 with such resources as visual literacy and research modules, materials and exhibition support; our very own HSI-PAH artist-in-residence (Dr. Leigh-Anna Hidalgo); peer mentors and community members time during site-visits and pin-ups.  The students will start with visual literacy modules led by the CCP team (inspired by their own exhibition on Linda McCartney and her teacher —Hazel Larsen Archer’s groundbreaking approach to photo education), then begin a semester-long investigation of El Pueblo, examining case studies, conducting site visits, participating in group-interviews and designing photo-shoots with community storytellers, all to culminate in a public-facing event of an exhibition at El Pueblo and the CCP in May of 2023.

This spring, the Center for Creative Photography will present an exciting series of conversations inspired by Linda McCartney’s work as both a photographer and an activist. Through lectures and panels with artists, curators, and entrepreneurs, the aim is to nurture meaningful discussions on pressing historical, cultural, and environmental issues globally through the lens of photography.

This 3-part series will run on the following dates:

Lecture by Sarah Brown, Photographic Curator of the Linda McCartney Archive, in conversation with CCP Chief Curator, Dr. Rebecca Senf. Saturday, February 25, noon. This lecture will be held at the Forum at UA's Health Sciences Innovation Building (HSIB)

Daniella Zalcman & Verónica Sanchis Bencomo in Conversation, moderated by CCP Curator of Interdisciplinary & Community Practices, Dr. Meg Jackson Fox. Meet Daniella Zalcman, photographer & founder of Women Photograph and Verónica Sanchis Bencomo, photographer & founder of Foto Féminas, on Thursday, March 30, 5:30pm. This lecture will be held at the CCP Auditorium.

Screening & Lecture with Dr. Sarah K. Khan, author, photographer, multi-media maker, and producer of Migrant Kitchens. Thursday, April 27, 5:30pm. This lecture will be held at the CCP Auditorium.

The CCP's Spring 2023 Lecture Series is generously sponsored by JP Morgan Chase & Co.

*All events are FREE and open to the public, with first-come, first-serve auditorium seating.

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. Then on Saturday, September 24, 2022, from 7 to 10PM, join the opening reception at Etherton Gallery for Graciela Iturbide: Sueños, Símbolos y Narración (Dreams, Symbols, and Storytelling).

About Graciela Iturbide. Born 1942 in Mexico City, Mexico, Graciela Iturbide studied cinematography at university and then worked as an assistant to Mexican modernist master, Manuel Álvarez Bravo. He became a lifelong mentor and encouraged her in developing her own artistic vision.

Now considered one of Mexico’s most celebrated photographers, her work has graced more than sixty exhibitions in galleries and museums worldwide. In 2007, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles held a retrospective exhibition, The Goat’s Dance. Graciela Iturbide is the 2008 winner of the prestigious Hasselblad Award, and, in 2015, the Cornell Capa Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Center for Photography.

The Hasselblad Foundation’s award jury said "Iturbide has extended the concept of documentary photography, to explore the relationships between man and nature, the individual and the cultural, the real and the psychological… [Her photography] is of the highest visual strength and beauty and continues to inspire a younger generation of photographers in Latin America and beyond."

Graciela Iturbide’s photography can be found in the permanent collections of such institutions as the Tate Modern, London, the Musée National d’art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Casa de la Cultura de Juchitán, Oaxaca, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Museum of Photography, Hokkaido, Japan, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Tarrah Krajnak will talk about her photography career and 2021 book project, “El Jardín De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan,” presented by the School of Art Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series and in collaboration with the Center for Creative Photography. Krajnak, an artist researcher with Unseen California based in Los Angeles, was born in Lima, Peru, in 1979.

Named after a time-bending short story by Borges, “El Jardín de Senderos Que Se Bifurcan” moves between found photographs, original writing, and appropriated images taken from 1979 Peruvian political magazines. Indigenous to Peru and orphaned as an infant, Krajnak was adopted into a transracial American family. After 30 years she returns to the orphanage to understand her place within the historical narratives of her birthplace.

“El Jardín de Senderos Que Se Bifurcan” was shortlisted for the Aperture/Paris Photo First Book Award and named to MoMA’s inaugural list of 10 photo books of the year. The book is now in numerous library collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Yale University, RISD, Printed Matter, and The National Library among others.

Krajnak’s research for Unseen California will take place on sites closely related to Ansel Adams and Edward Weston for her ongoing series “Master Rituals,” in which she uses the camera, her body and performance to engage with the problematic canons of modern photography through acts of erasure, redaction, and re-enactment.

Her photographs are held in numerous public and private collections, including the Centre Pompidou, Museum Ludwig, and the Pinault. Her work has been published and reviewed in Aperture, Artforum, New York Review of Books, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, Glasstire, Contact Sheet, East of Borneo, and others. Residencies include Bemis, Light Work, and Center for Photography Woodstock. Recent exhibitions include CalArts REDCAT Los Angeles, Art Basel, Paris Photo, Photo London, Rencontres d’Arles, Filter Photo, Houston Center for Photography, SUR Biennial, and Silver Eye, among others.

She is the recipient of the Jury Prize of the Louis Roederer Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles, the Hariban Grand Prize, Kyoto, Japan, and a 2020 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize.