SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS: Fall 2015 MPS in Digital Photography Program

Clay McBride

Large Format Print Week with

Celebrity and Portrait Photographer Greg Gorman

Clareese Hill

Ksenia Tavrina

Photography Icon Bruce Davidson Lecture

Tom Ashe Reviewing Online Class Prints

The School of Visual Arts

Master of Professional Studies in Digital Photography Program

The Master of Professional Studies in Digital Photography is an intensive graduate degree program that addresses the technical and creative aspects of current digital image practices, which professional photographers and photo educators require to be at the vanguard of contemporary fine art, commercial, portrait, and fashion photography practices. Within the year, the diverse and talented students excel at producing technically outstanding and conceptually compelling images and multimedia projects, and are ideally positioned to pursue gallery representation, editorial or commercial work, as well as high-end digital retouching and consulting careers.

SVA offers two versions of the MPS Digital Photography Program; a full-time one-year On-campus/Summer Residency program for students that prefer learning in a classroom environment and a part-time two-year Online/Summer Residency for those who would benefit from the convenience and flexibility of the virtual learning experience. Both programs culminate with a summer session and group exhibition in New York City.

MPS Digital Photography Program Co-Founder and Chair, Katrin Eismann, is an internationally respected photographer, educator and author specializing in creative digital photography. Her books include Photoshop Masking and Compositing, Photoshop Restoration and Retouching, The Creative Digital Darkroom, and Real World Digital Photography, among others.

Applications for Fall 2015 MPS Digital Photography Program are being accepted now! Study with Elizabeth Avedon, Michael Foley, Greg Gorman, James Estrin, Tom P. Ashe, Darren and Debra Klomp Ching, Russell Hart, Stella Kramer, Matthew Richmond and Katrin Eismann, along with a roster of other greats! Check out the complete MPS Digital Photography Curriculum and Faculty [here].

MPS Digital Photography Program Website

SVA.edu

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SHELLY AU: Adobe Design Achievement Awards

 Sadness: a little girl sad about loosing her home. ©Shelly Au

Determination: to make life work even when things all around you has been torn down. ©Shelly Au

Stillness: as China Flag remains. ©Shelly Au

 Shelly Au: "Two Beautiful Daughters: Anger and Courage"

"China's rapid growth is both powerful and stunning, yet fast paced change has also ushered in the destruction of history and communities. Buildings for miles of square blocks are marked with the eight red brush stroke character (Chai) to destroy or take down. "Two Beautiful Daughters" is a meditation on the pain and anger that accompany powerlessness, and the courage and hope it takes to persevere through loss." –Shelly Au

"Shelly Au has been working for an overseas nonprofit Organization for 20 years. He has spent 17 of those years living in various parts of Asia. His experience and ability to make his subjects comfortable have allowed him to capture powerful images among people who are ordinarily suspicious of being photographed."

"While living in Asia, he was drawn to the hearts of its people, and made it his mission to tell their stories through photographs. He has organized benefits in less fortunate communities, for example, photographing residents on white backgrounds and giving the portraits freely to them. In December 2011, he assembled over 90 volunteers from Nanjing to run 4 studios to help build community respect and local news picked up the story."

"While in New York, Shelly received the Paula Rhodes Honors Award when he was working on his Master of Professional Studies in Digital Photography degree at the School of Visual Arts under the chair of Photoshop Hall of Fame Katrin Eismann."

"Currently Shelly is one of three finalist for the 2013 Adobe Design Achievement Award in Photography that will be announced in New York on November 19th, 2013."

SHELLY AU PHOTOGRAPHY

(text courtesy of Shelly Au Photography)