SP’24 PHOT130 Portfolio Production Walkthrough

Portfolio Production Highlights
Exhibition Portfolio Walk Event

WHEN: Wednesday, May 15, 6-9pm

WHERE: Visual Arts Courtyard & Gallery Obscura
City College of San Francisco Photography Department
50 Frida Kahlo Way, Visual Arts Building 160 (VART)
San Francisco, CA  94112
Campus map available here

For one night only, please join us at the CCSF Photography Department to celebrate the diverse photographic work produced by students in Professor Sarah Christianson’s Portfolio Production class:

Karina Almanza, Laiza Caguiat, Matthew Chan, Paula Correa, Jignesh Desai, Sterling Domich, Brenda Dawson Dove, Raena Frohlich, Lucy Torres, Edwin Gee, Zackery Ormonde, Mariana Paz, Raymond Quach, Brennan Smart, Peter Stickney, Vince Street, Vince Thomas, David Ung, Joseph Untalan, & Anne Veraldi

There will be an incredible amount of photography on display: from documentary to fine art, personal to commercial, portraiture to landscape, editorial to street, place-based to conceptual storytelling, traditional to analog processes—there’s a little bit of everything!

The Gallery Obscura Exhibition features one representative image from each student’s portfolio.

During the Portfolio Walk, students will share their final printed portfolios at individual tables.  Attendees are encouraged to speak with the artists, view their photographs, and network. 

Please drop in to this free and open-to-the-public event any time between 6-9pm to enjoy this casual night of art-viewing, socializing, and celebrating with these 20 accomplished photography students. 

Questions? Please contact Sarah Christianson, schristianson@ccsf.edu

ABOUT THE CLASS

Portfolio Production (PHOT130A/B/C) is a semester-long class taught by Professor Sarah Christianson in which students prepare a professional portfolio of 10-20 photographic images.  The subject matter, style, and content of the portfolio is entirely open for students to decide, so they can create a body of work they’re excited about and that also advances their professional goals.  Because this is a hybrid course, students are required to produce and deliver their portfolios in multiple formats:  as a more traditional portfolio of printed images, as a set of individual digital image files, as well as a website with an artist statement and bio.

The class focuses on the technical and aesthetic issues of creating a portfolio, as well as presentation and marketing strategies.  Throughout the semester, an iterative process is used to refine the portfolio, which includes activities such as writing proposals, creating contact sheets and test prints, critiquing a smaller work-in-progress Midterm Portfolio, working with peers to edit and sequence the images, and polishing the Final Portfolio into a larger cohesive set of 10-20 images.