Focal Point

Jun 20

Jun 20 Episode 7: Kenneth Josephson and Marilyn Zimmerwoman

In this episode, renowned photographers Kenneth Josephson and Marilyn Zimmerwoman are in conversation with Museum of Contemporary Photography’s curator of academic programs and collections, Kristin Taylor. The artists discuss several works made over Josephson’s decades-long career as well as topics ranging from composition and perspective to the male gaze and Marilyn Monroe.

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.

Aug 7

Aug 7 Episode 3: Dawoud Bey and Teju Cole

Wesley Reno

Photography, Faculty Podcast

In this special extended episode, photographer Dawoud Bey and writer, critic, and photographer Teju Cole are in conversation with MoCP’s curator of academic programs and collections, Kristin Taylor. Bey and Cole discuss works in the MoCP’s permanent collection by Roy DeCarava and Melissa Ann Pinney as well as their thoughts on seeing, understanding, and creating images in the world today.

Jul 2

Jul 2 Episode 2: Lisa Lindvay and Natalie Krick

Wesley Reno

Faculty Podcast, Photography

In this episode, photographers Natalie Krick and Lisa Lindvay join Karen Irvine, MoCP's chief curator and deputy director, to discuss works by Andy Warhol and Kathe Kowalski in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. In the process, the two artists also discuss their own work and themes of photographing family, intimacy, and vulnerability.

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.