The WWU Photography Concentration portfolio book began in collaboration with Professor Garth Amundson as a collection of images responding to being a photography student during the Covid-19 pandemic- a way to build community within the photography concentration, to create a sense of contact and manifest exchange. Now on its 7th iteration, the images in this book reveal a continually-shifting relationship to the pandemic, a sort of defining of “post-pandemic normal”
The Fall 2022 WWU Portfolio book is available for purchase here: https://www.blurb.com/b/11451979-2022-fall-wwu-portfolio-book
Across the globe, the power of the photographic image continues to prove essential as virtual connections are made with cameras and have further become a necessary vehicle for maintaining dialogue. All the work submitted explores and investigates this unprecedented moment in time.
Forced to reconsider our traditional physical portfolio exchange, the class approached Dana Ollestad in the spring of 2020 to discuss alternatives. For years, Dana has been producing books as a final project, culmination, and reflection for his online courses.
Students involved in this portfolio:
A.Wiebe,
Adam Huff,
Alexei Brandt,
Anna Barrett,
Ashley Anderson,
Audrey Johnston,
Audrey Jordan,
Ben Murray,
Benjamin Rist,
Chloe Miller,
Cory Dixon,
Dani Holt,
Danny Brown,
Derek Sweeney,
Elsa Miller,
Emma Auflick,
Evelyn Reid,
Fox Lunetta,
Galen Hutcherson,
Hung Le,
Indigo Lahtinen,
Jackson Jacoy,
Jessica Wright,
Kenzie Isom,
Korbyn McGreevy,
Kristjana M. Harder,
Lillie Brown,
Lucas Mabry-Smith,
Mady Jacobs,
Mary Cochran,
Nguyen Pham,
Safiya Nazerali,
Sage Hartman,
Sami Adams,
Shawna Lingrey,
Sophie Palmer,
Stephanie Rhodes,
Thomas Ng,
Trinity Pine
Special thanks to Garth Amundson, Pierre Gour and Dana Ollestad, all of whom included their own photos in the collection and worked in the creation of this book.