THERESE ISSY PO
Kaya Founders
- Typography!
- Bahala Letterforms
- Lau at Yale
- Graphite, Charcoal
- Digital Photo
- Painting Time
- We Are Lucky
- Beginnings
- For Friends
- Ezra Stiles Art Gallery
About
Under the guidance of Professor Lisa Kereszi, I took over 150 pictures every week over a 1 month period, documenting everything and nothing during May of summer break. My favorite pictures capture a bit of ‘serendipity’. I see these moments by chance, my favorites being at the egdes of boundaries. After lectures, I would listen to recorded Yale School of Art lectures by the likes of Wolfgang Tillmans, Nan Goldin, and Robert Adams. Tod Papageorge’s Core Curriculum also served as an assigned reading which continues to inspire, support, and carry my practice. I am currently reading Art Can Help by Robert Adams.
The focus of this class is the digital making of still color photographs with particular emphasis on the potential meaning of images and making them in a photo-saturated world. Through intensive picture-making, students develop a personal visual syntax using color and composition for effect, meaning, psychology and narrative possibility. Lectures examine the progression of photography as fine art medium and the tradition of handheld, natural-light photography through the 20th century and into contemporary practices in the 21st, focusing on a diversity of voices. Images are discussed and critiqued projected onscreen, and the focus is on the image as an end to itself as well as how it functions in a sequence and in various environments.