What We Become
Large Format Photography: An Undergraduate Course

January 30–March 6, 2008
Porch Gallery

Public Reception: Wednesday, January 30, 6–8 p.m.

In Large Format Photography this year, we grappled with how considerable societal pressures can lead us to lose sight of who we really are—that gulf between the inevitable honesty of our interior lives and what we do in the world to survive. The weight of expectations often clouds the best of news a job, a school or opportunities to lead, to perform—and can press in on us, as does the hard work of finding a foothold in a new life.

These students are tenacious experimentalists with what must be the most amazing and ornery of cameras—and a process that requires careful forethought, collaboration, and even a new way of thinking. Yet in this intimacy, the heartbeat is unmistakable. What a privilege to work with these exceptionally daring and openhearted young people. They offer us quite a gift—a glimpse into their true selves.

—Lisa Satterwhite, Instructor, Large Format Photography
Center for Documentary Studies, Fall 2007

What We Become will be on view through March 6, 2008. Featuring photographs by:

Julia Torti
Political science and rugby, 2008
Gelatin silver contact prints, bleached and selenium toned

Jianghai Ho
Biology and music, 2008
Gelatin silver contact prints, bleached and selenium toned

Dina Graves
Political science and theatre, 2009
Gelatin silver contact prints, bleached and selenium toned

Pai Worata Klinsawat
Biology and photography, 2008
Gelatin silver prints, bleached and selenium toned

Elizabeth Sauer
Arts & Sciences and lacrosse, 2010
Gelatin silver prints, bleached and selenium toned

Michelle Lotker
Biology and Certificate in Documentary Studies, 2008
Gelatin silver contract prints, bleached and selenium toned

Sarah Goetz
Arts & Sciences, 2011
Gelatin silver contact prints, bleached and selenium toned

Danielle Hotten
Arts & Sciences and president of IMPACT, 2010
Gelatin silver prints, bleached and selenium toned

D.J. Moore
Psychology, 2009
Gelatin silver contact prints, bleached and selenium toned

Michelle Sawyer
Arts & Sciences, 2011
Gelatin silver prints, bleached and selenium toned

Dan Satterwhite and Lisa Satterwhite, Instructor
Chromogenic prints and ink jet prints from digital scans of Kodachrome slides, 1961 and 2007

Glenn Scarboro
Visiting artist
Toned gelatin silver prints






banner image:

Partial view of the Lyndhurst Gallery, one of four exhibition spaces at CDS. Photograph by Christoper Sims.


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