Photography

Undergraduate Studies

Photography at the University of Minnesota is an area of concentration within an art major leading to either a Bachelor of Art or a Bachelor of Fine Art degree. The main goal of the area is to help students develop a better understanding of their relationship to image making, photographic strategies, theoretical issues, art history, and visual culture. Technically classes focus on enhancing student skills in both digital and silver technologies, balancing traditional processes with alternative, interdisciplinary investigations.

Graduate Studies

The three-year graduate program in photography is limited to six students in residence. Emphasis is placed on developing a critical understanding of one’s conceptual and artistic practices, and situating oneself within a contemporary art context. Regular photo area critiques are an essential component to that process and interdisciplinary approaches to the medium are actively encouraged.

Current faculty and graduate work ranges widely, including digitally processed prints, 4x5 fieldwork, mixed-media installation, photographic interventions into public space, alternative chemical processes, documented performance art, video, and text.

Visiting Artists and Critics

Doug Aitken
Gary Hill
Alfredo Jarr
Sandy Skoglund

Faculty

Gary Hallman, Associate Professor, MFA, University of Minnesota
James Henkel, Associate Professor, MFA, Florida State University
Jan Estep, Associate Professor, MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago; PhD Philosophy, Washington University