Department of Art
Explore Art in the North
Still Life with Genetically Modified Pears, Kathryn Reichert, Green Tea-Toned Cyanotype
Degrees offered through the Photography program include:
The Department offers Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees with an emphasis in Photography. The MFA is a three-year program, headed by Charles Mason, Professor of Photography in Art and Journalism Departments. The degree draws from the rich field of contemporary art photography as a lens-based medium open to various expressive modes of image-making. Classes are structured around the production of cohesive photographic projects and exhibitions, editing, and final presentation. Darkroom, studio, and computer facilities are provided. Students receive technical instruction in digital and analog image production as well as non-silver and alternative photographic processes.
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Tobey Jean Priest, Lumen
Vintage Noir
Sarah Manriquez, Digital Photography
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I Would Go With You
Kathryn Reichert, Long Exposure Digital Photograph
Summer Celebration
Susan Andrews, Cyanolumen
You in the Light I Remember
Kathryn Reichert, Acrylic Gel transfer over Gold Leaf of a toy camera film photograph
A Portrait of Alder
Susan Andrews, Mordancaged Silver Gelatin Print
Frank Stelges, Silver Gelatin Print from medium format negative
Bubble Gum Pop
Sarah Manriquez, Hand Colored Polaroid Transfer
Fine Arts Archive
Browse previous MFA and BFA thesis exhibitions at UAF
UAF's Photography Program boasts 1100 square feet of darkroom spaces across campus, including an advanced large format and alternative/historical photographic process lab and learning space in the Rasmuson Library and a newly-renovated classroom darkroom space for our beginning and intermediate courses in the Bunnell Building. Our digital photography lab is one of the most up-to-date graphics-focused computer labs on campus, featuring 16 iMac workstations, high-end Epson scanners and archival printers, as well as the entire Adobe Creative Suite. Additionally, adjacent to our Bunnell computer lab and darkroom spaces is our spacious portrait studio, featuring Godox lighting, various vinyl, paper and fabric backgrounds and drapes, and a large assortment of lighting modifiers. Students in our analog and digital photography courses are granted 24/7 access to these spaces to facilitate their creative requirements when they strike and have access to a wide array of camera bodies, lenses, flashes, lighting modifiers, filters and accessories through our equipment checkout.
Charles Mason
Professor of Photography
Bunnell 105B
Charles Mason's photographs and photo essays have won numerous international, national and regional awards, including the Oskar Barnack Award at the World Press Photo Competition in Amsterdam and awards at the National Press Photographers Association's Pictures of the Year. His documentary and art photographs have been in many solo and juried shows throughout Alaska and in California, Illinois and Virginia.
Mason covers Alaska for the Corbis photo agency in New York/Seattle, and is represented by Tony Stone Images/Getty in Seattle/London. His work has appeared in LIFE, Time, Newsweek, Outside, Aperture, The New York Times and GEO. He also has published two children's books, including the award-winning A Child's Alaska. Other books include collaborations with writer Jennifer Brice (The Last Settlers, a black-and-white documentary project on the last federal homesteaders); writer Patti Clayton (Connection on the Ice, about the 1988 Barrow, Alaska, whale rescue); and writer Sherry Simpson (The Way Winter Comes, cover and illustrations).
J. Jason Lazarus
Assistant Professor of Photography
RASMUSON 360B
J. Jason Lazarus is an Alaska-based photographer and educator that creates handmade and narrative-driven photographic work utilizing a wide range of alternative and historical photographic processes. Lazarus has served as a photographic educator at the University of Alaska vlog since 2005, teaching and developing a wide range of courses in digital, alternative and traditional darkroom photography. His alternative process work ranges from abstract Chemigram prints that discuss the complex historical legacy left behind by World War II to darkroom-printed Mordançage images that show a fragile Western American landscape decaying under the pressures of resource development, economic failures and climate change. Lazarus also spends the lengthy, dimly-lit winter months in Alaska creating unique portraits of its fragile tundra with his Fujifilm xPro-3 digital camera, finding an uncanny beauty among its bleak northern latitudes, as seen in his series entitled “Resilient”.
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