Exhibit showcases student photos
PRESQUE ISLE — The University of Maine at Presque Isle’s Pullen Art Gallery is featuring the work of photography students in its Pullen Art Gallery this month. The student photography exhibition will be on display until April 22.
Two levels of course work will be represented. Beginning and advanced photography students will share several of their assigned projects, highlighting the human form, human emotion, architecture, commentary views on the obsession with “screens” and reconstructed space.
UMPI adjunct faculty member Carol Ayoob received her master’s degree in intermedia from the University of Maine in 2012, and now teaches photography classes to students and the community. She exposes her students to a plethora of historical and contemporary figures, and group critiques prove crucial for evaluating and examining presented images.
Advanced photography students Jennifer Farr, Laurie Smythe Doody, Michaela King, Roldena Sanipass, Ward Gero, and Marc Knapp travel from Ashland, Caribou, Mars Hill and Houlton to attend Ayoob’s Thursday evening class.
“The class is encouraged to spend more time on projects to develop ideas and values that are portrayed in their works. Making a movie with photos, reconstructing space with a number of photos, making images that reflect one’s philosophy on the effect of television or hand-held devices, and always working with understanding of light, my advanced students are in the process of discovering the broad range of possible artistic applications for their images,” Ayoob said.
Beginning photography students Andrew Bellamy, Tonya Godin, Ning Sun, Rebekah Walker, Huiting Yang, Michelle Tardiff and Tong Liu have devoted their Thursday evenings to printing, matting and sharing their new ventures in the media.
Said Ayoob of her beginning students: “When combined with a sense of the rich historical and philosophical underpinnings of the media, and the push to get out and shoot at every possible time of day, and with a focus on the ‘truth’ of an image, my students are bringing in work at midyear that is worthy of viewing in an exhibition of this nature.”
The Pullen gallery is open daily from 8 a.m.-9 p.m.
