LEVEL LLC. owner/director Henry Muchmore (top) works with co-worker Michelle Eckhardt installing visual artist Erika Diettes’s photographs for her opening exhibition ‘Drifting Away/Rio Abajo’ in The Marion Center for photographic Arts Atrium, Friday September 16th from 5-7 p.m. Henry graduated from College of Santa Fe in 1998 and Michelle graduated from SFUAD in 2012 as photography...

The Rotary Club of Santa Fe Foundation will be holding its annual Rotary Foundation Gala May 3, at which they will honor their Distinguished Artist of the Year. The artist must have excelled in his or her field and must be nominated by local artists and galleries. This year, the foundation has chosen to honor photographer and Santa Fe University of Art and Design Photography Department Chairman Tony O’ Brien.

Omar Pedroza is a freshman photography major and has been working on a surreal self portrait project for his class Visual Storytelling: Photo Essay. On April 27, he shot one of his images from this series at the Railyard district of Santa Fe. This image portrays Pedroza floating away as passerby observe. His work deals with self identity and his exploration of understanding everything about photography—from techniques to its conceptual...

“Six” opens from 5-10 p.m., Friday, April 29 at the Marion Center for Photographic Arts. Stop by before OVF starts at 8:45 p.m.

On the evening of April 29, several graduating seniors in SFUAD’s Photographic Arts Department will be putting on their senior show. Six seniors, to be precise, which is where the show takes its name and concept from.

The EXIT Gallery is an opportunity for Photographic Society members to showcase some of their work for two weeks at a time. Ending the schedule for this year is Craig Duncan with his series “It’s Whatever You Want It to Be, Baby.”

The Photography Department decided to take out a few of its students out to the badlands just south of Farmington, NM.

Paul Slaughter’s “Jazz Greats” photography exhibit and the Contemporary Music Program’s accompanying concert made for a great night for jazz lovers of all kinds.

Paul Slaughter’s “Jazz Greats” photography exhibit will be followed by a Contemporary Music Program concert featuring faculty and student musicians.

Students Relax In the Marion Center for the Photographic Arts. .

Janus: A Photographic Journey at the Marion Center showcases eight photographers who teach in SFUAD’s photography department.

Chris Nail teaches the Beginning Alternative Process class on how to make a tintype portrait. Using Wetplate Collodion, a process developed in the 1850s, photographers are able to create a false positive emulsion on glass or metal. Using Natural light, exposure times can range up to 45 seconds. Photo by Forrest...

Junior photography student Monica Suárez shot a class project for the lighting 1 class taught by Eric Swanson. The assignment was to take a photo from the internet and recreate it. Suárez picked  a tough photo using messy baby powder and a model for the project. She has always challenged herself photographically. “Don’t take homework as homework, take it as an opportunity to build your portfolio,”Suárez said. Also on set was Suárez’ model, film major Ekaternia Ignatova, and her assistant, Studio arts major Abdiel Beltran. “It’s fun but I hate Monica for this,” Ignatova said. “I’m covered in baby powder and I have class in 30 minutes.” Beltran said he also had a good experience, and that it was his first time in the photo...

Students taking the Beginning Alternative Processes class taught by Chris Nail work diligently on their Cyanotype prints. Discovered in 1842, by Sir John Herschel, the Cyanotype process allowed photographers to create vibrant blue images when exposed to light. Throughout the semester, students in this class will be learning how early photographers created and printed 19th and 20th images using raw chemicals and hand coated papers....

Reid Callanan has taken 12 trips to Cuba since 2010, working as a photographer to capture the true essence of the land. For more than 50 years, Cubans have been under the strict thumb of its government while earning, at very best, $20 a month. But the Cubans Callanan has encountered have immense pride and passion about their country. Reid is one of five members of the American Society of Media Photographers that came to Tipton Hall on Sept. 9 to share their experiences of traveling and photographing in Cuba. Along with Callanan, Tony Bonanno, Jennifer Spelman, Sally Thomson and Karen Novotny have become exceptionally familiar with photographing areas and natives of Havana, Santiago de Cuba, Guantanamo and Trinidad. Though each of these photographers had different experiences, they had nothing but wonderful things to say about the people and their culture. All said they were welcomed into home after home with open arms and plenty of stories to go around the table. They had never seen such solace coming from people who live in incredibly substandard living conditions. Karen Novotny was invited into the home of a local priest to photograph his living conditions. “This is a relatively nice home although it is crumbling in places,” she said. “They just don’t have the materials to repaint the walls, to replaster the walls, to repair the ceiling, to replace the light bulbs you see over the bed.” The photographers also noted Cubans’ passion for music, family, art and baseball. “This photo was taken when the team from Havana won the state championship,” Tony Bonanno said. “You could barely move through the streets, there were so many people in the streets celebrating, it’s a tremendous passion in Cuba.” Yet when most are finished celebrating and practicing, they return to a home with no running water. Cuban...

Luke Montavon’s senior photo thesis explores what the disappeared left behind in Juarez, Mexico. The work is on display at the Marion Center.

This week Jackalope photographers turn the lens on themselves and explore self-portraits and the more contemporary “selfies.”