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Notre Dame International Senior Fellows host photography contest celebrating cultural identity

Claire Reid | Friday, April 16, 2021

The Notre Dame International (NDI) Senior Fellows are holding a photography competition “Show Your Culture,” which is accepting submissions until Sunday. Entries can be submitted via a Google Form on NDI’s website. The competition challenges students to submit an original photo along with a caption explaining how it represents the ways in which they incorporate

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Artists discuss new hybrid gallery exhibit, speak about creative process

Carmen Feucht | Friday, February 19, 2021

Author Philip Matthews and photographer David Johnson hosted a virtual discussion for the Saint Mary’s community to showcase their new collaborative exhibition “Wig Heavier Than a Boot” in the Moreau Center Art Galleries. During the panel moderated by associate professor of art Ian Weaver, Johnson and Matthews shared their experiences about working on the project.

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‘Touchstones of the Twentieth Century:’ A re-appreciation of the power of photography

Willoughby Thom | Thursday, September 24, 2020

Photography is something that we take for granted these days. We are constantly taking snap-shots of our lives through our cell phones, and we are forgetting about the essence of the photo in which we are taking. I believe the art of photography has been forgotten. Due to its accessibility, we have begun to know

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Growing up

Allison Thornton | Tuesday, April 28, 2020

When I was younger, the question of “what I wanted to be when I grew up” was always something I looked forward to answering. Because when I was six years old, the answer came so easily to me and I was excited to tell everyone. I wanted to become an archaeologist, who was also a

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Longtime University athletics photographer dies

Observer Staff Report | Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Mike Bennett, a photographer who spent nearly 40 years capturing major moments in Notre Dame athletics history, died Monday after a short battle with cancer, according to a University press release published Tuesday. He was 69 years old. Bennett was a ubiquitous presence at University sporting events, the release said. “Often armed with multiple cameras and

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Professor shares work of Jim Crow era photojournalist

Aaron Benavides | Friday, March 1, 2019

Steven Hoelscher, a professor of American Studies and geography at the University of Texas at Austin, spoke about forced labor and torture in Georgia prisons during the Jim Crow era at a lecture Thursday evening at the Snite Museum of Art. The lecture was co-sponsored by the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, department

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Saint Mary’s student creates film, photography business, pursues passions

Maria Leontaras | Tuesday, April 17, 2018

It all began with a spring break trip and a travel video edited with iMovie. Saint Mary’s junior Alyssa Jones utilized her passion for photography and videography to create a business in 2015 upon which she plans to build her future. Jones began her business, L Film & Photography, after an old friend’s mother reached

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Saint Mary’s photography students share work with community

Maeve Filbin | Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Professor Douglas Tyler gave his “Introduction to Digital Photography” students a simple instruction: Construct a diary illustrating daily life through a camera lens. The result was “Digital Diaries,” an exhibit on display since mid-February in the Saint Mary’s Cushwa-Leighton Library that explores the mundanities of everyday life through a digital photography series. Tyler said his students

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Scene in South Bend: Jacob Titus is on the move

Nora McGreevy and Adam Ramos | Monday, February 19, 2018

“I don’t have an official title,” Jacob Titus told us before grudgingly referring to himself as the “owner” of West.SB. All three of us — Titus, Scene Editor Adam Ramos and Associate Scene Editor Nora McGreevy — were seated in a pristine white room, one of many new office spaces in the renovated Studebaker Building 113

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Saint Mary’s alumna founds photography business

Maeve Filbin | Wednesday, September 20, 2017

By the start of her freshman year at Saint Mary’s, Elise deSomer (’17) said she knew she would be a professional photographer. DeSomer started her Michiana photography business, Elise Imagery, as a high school blog and has since transformed it into a full-fledged career specializing in portraits and unique artwork. Having graduated from the College as

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