On Thursday, February 20th, UA photo professor Frank Gohlke will give a talk about his current project, a study of wild apple forests in Kazakhstan, funded by a Fulbright Scholar Research Grant. Gohlke’s apple passion dates back 40 years to a commencement address delivered by the late John Szarkowski to the graduating class of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Gohlke’s fascination grew during a three-year stay in Middlebury, Vermont, where he first experienced apple cider fresh from a press. Apples by Frank Browning (North Point Press, 1998), introduced Gohlke to the wild apple forests of Kazakhstan, from which domesticated apples grown across the world are derived.

Gohlke’s lecture will include photographs of earlier projects that presage aspects of the Kazakhstan work, and a group of images made since December 2013 in the first stage of the current project.

CCP Appoints Joshua Chuang as Chief Curator

The Center for Creative Photography is proud to announce the appointment of Joshua Chuang to the position of Chief Curator. Mr. Chuang, who has been the Richard Benson Associate Curator of Photography and Digital Media at the Yale University Art Gallery, will assume his new post in April 2014. At the CCP, one of the world’s premier university art museums and study centers for the history of photography, Mr. Chuang will lead the Center’s curatorial program, organizing exhibitions and publications as well as overseeing acquisitions. 

February is Photography Month in Arizona! The Center for Creative Photography and INFOCUS are sponsoring PhotoTapas, a month-long celebration of the art of photography in Arizona. This annual event showcases the work of Arizona's finest photography organizations and photographers as well as the philosophies and processes they employ to create exceptional works of art. For more information and a complete list of events, visit  www.phototapas.com.

Ansel Adams Internship
Deadline: April 18, 2014

Since 1987 the Center has offered a paid internship to qualified University of Arizona graduate students. This opportunity allows students to experience a wide variety of museum and archive activities and to gain experience working under the supervision of Center staff. Depending on student interest and current Center needs, an internship is designed each year for a specific project. Past interns have been assigned to work with Center staff in the curatorial, education, archives, and digital scanning areas. The internship award is a stipend of up to $4,000 plus a tuition scholarship for the 2014/2015 academic year at the University of Arizona. Click here for more information.

What would change if you could hear the subject of a photograph speak to you? If you could hear the wind moving through the trees in a landscape photograph? How would the world you see shift as it became a world you could hear?

See, Hear, Feel explores that idea through the work of two contemporary photographers, Debra Bloomfield and Christopher Churchill, who push the limits of their artistic practice and explore the dimension of sound. Bloomfield traverses existing wilderness spaces, her abstract images of the untamed intensified through the call of ravens or the crunch of boots in settled snow. Christopher Churchill explores a wilderness of a different kind, as he takes the viewer along a journey across the post 9/11 nation to discuss our changing ideas of faith. As we view compelling portraits, we listen to their subjects reveal to us what they believe. Featuring nearly 40 photographs with accompanying sound, these two seemingly divergent bodies of work will converge to create a sense of wonder about our world and ourselves: what we see, what we hear, and what we feel, in the public, wild places of landscape, and in the private, wild places of faith.