Portraiture — Focal Point

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All tagged Portraiture

Apr 3

Apr 3 Episode 6: Kelli Connell and Kiba Jacobson

Wesley Reno

Photography, Faculty Podcast

In this episode, Chicago-based photographer Kelli Connell is in conversation with her long-term model and muse, Kiba Jacobson, along with Museum of Contemporary Photography’s curator of academic programs and collections, Kristin Taylor. Connell and Jacobson discuss topics of portraiture, relationships, and the performance of gender and identity within Connell’s series, Double Life (2002-ongoing). Additionally, they discuss works in the MoCP’s collection by Peter Cochrane, Zackary Drucker, and Rhys Ernst.

May 7

May 7 Episode 1: David Schalliol and Carlos Javier Ortiz

Wesley Reno

Faculty Podcast, Photography

In this episode, Chicago photographers and activists David Schalliol and Carlos Javier Ortiz join CCC’s Museum of Contemporary Photography curator of academic programs and collections, Kristin Taylor, to discuss activism in portraiture. Their work focuses on the demolition of homes and communities and the tragedies that proceed this destruction on the south side of Chicago. David and Carlos explain ethical obligations to communities and landscape as well as what it means to be an activist in 2019.