Children of shadow and light
If you look closely at the photographs, you see a reflection of hope. Consider the images taken by USC Neighborhood Academic Initiative (NAI) students during the time they spent on the USC campus....
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At the time he was shooting photos during the 1960s, photographer Lawrence Schiller said he had no idea they would be so memorable. “History made my pictures important, not me,” he said, speaking on...
View ArticleFlick’s Freeways explores time and place
For many Angelenos, getting on the freeway is entering a dead zone. The serpentine miles of endless concrete take us from Point A to Point B with nothing discernibly interesting or beautiful along the...
View ArticleAn artist who innovates with technology
Think of a remote, forbidding, awe-inspiring terrain. Iceland’s glaciers. The Himalayas. The Mojave Desert. Easter Island. Eric Hanson has been there. Hanson, a faculty member in the John C. Hench...
View ArticleDennis Hopper images find a home at USC
The USC School of Cinematic Arts, which recently became home to a collection of Dennis Hopper’s photographs and memorabilia, honored the actor, director and photographer with a reception that marked...
View ArticleOpen Studios shows off student talent
Artists often work alone, but the USC Roski’s many disciplines joined forces for the art and design school’s first combined Open Studios event. The Dec. 10 event showcased work of undergraduate...
View ArticleTravel grant awardees receive support for proposed projects
The Macomber Travel Grant was established 10 years ago by Jerry and Nancy Neely in name of their daughter, Kathleen Neely Macomber ’92, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in art history. Selected...
View ArticleUSC Roski artist takes a life-altering journey to Japan
In February, BFA student Brian Dario was still trying to wrap his head around a life-altering journey he had taken to Japan on a Macomber Travel Grant through the USC Roski School of Art and Design....
View ArticleStriking art, presented with no explanation
At first glance, it’s hard to tell that the photos of Bill Wishner’s I Don’t Explain collection aren’t, in fact, paintings themselves. But looking beyond the colorful collages of painted characters,...
View ArticleHow flash photography shined a light upon life’s dark corners
Her quiet dignity captured for all time, an elderly African-American woman is pictured in her simply furnished but spotless home. Taken by photographer Gordon Parks in 1942, the black-and-white...
View ArticleArchitectural photographer Wayne Thom’s beautiful images head to USC Libraries
The archive of Wayne Thom, a renowned architectural photographer who shot only with natural light, worked without assistants and meticulously printed his own images, is coming to USC Libraries. Thom’s...
View ArticleUSC Roski opens its studios to works of art
A semester of hard work by students at the USC Roski School of Art and Design was on display this month at Watt Hall and Harris Hall. The work by undergraduates featured the departments of ceramics,...
View ArticleAlex Currie has built an impressive career in photography — and he’s just 19
One day in late 2015, Alex Currie got an email from HBO. The network wanted to know if it could use his photography in the opening sequence of its series The Leftovers. At just 19 years old, Currie is...
View ArticleFacing old age behind bars: Photos illustrate aging inmates’ challenges
Aileen Hongo MSW '13, MAG '07 first met award-winning commercial and art photographer Ron Levine through his photographs -- striking images of aging prisoners. "This a voiceless population," said...
View ArticleAlumnus turns to photography amid the peace and beauty of Buddhist culture in...
With its steady rumble of traffic, Encino's bustling Ventura Boulevard in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley could not seem more far removed from the peace, pristine air and sweeping mountain views of...
View ArticleOnetime punk rocker uses photography to tell stories of ‘my Los Angeles’
Star Montana remembers her first photography class. It was at East Los Angeles College, and since she was in high school at the time, she could take classes for free. Photography became an obsession,...
View ArticleMuch-lauded Earth Works exhibition finds beauty in a climatological disaster
Justin Brice Guariglia, a former National Geographic photojournalist, had talked his way onto an expedition with NASA glacier scientists. Now, hardly fitting on the plane, he found a spot near the...
View ArticleUSC senior’s artwork gives a voice to the underrepresented
Tola Oseni uses art to tell stories -- stories that might otherwise go untold. A graduating senior at the USC Roski School of Art and Design, she creates photographs, videos and other media that...
View ArticleUSC Roski alum prepares to launch a COVID-inspired time capsule
Dean Haven Lin-Kirk of the USC Roski School of Art and Design always hopes that her students will shoot for the stars, but the moon? It was an out of this world aspiration -- literally -- but that...
View ArticleThrough photojournalism, young women document injustices and reasons for hope...
In line with the old saying "a picture is worth a thousand words," the Las Fotos Project and its Digital Promotoras program are helping young women in Boyle Heights and South Los Angeles find more...
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