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Documentary Photography: Italy 2026! ?>

Documentary Photography: Italy 2026!

Each year, students from this class put together and publish a book of photography. You can see 2025’s book here!

We encourage students with a passion for travel and photography to apply for this course. No prior experience required. Please notes that a digital camera will be provided for the duration of the class.

Program Dates: June 3rd – June 28th, 2026
Program Cost: $4,150 + Tuition (This includes housing, excursions, health insurance, and local transportation.)

Application Deadlines:

Priority Deadline: January 15, 2026
Final Deadline: February 1, 2026

To find out more about our Summer in Rome program, click here.
The 2025 Summer Session One Documentary Photography: Italy class book ?>

The 2025 Summer Session One Documentary Photography: Italy class book

Dear photography lovers and patrons of the arts,

I am proud to announce the release of the 2025 Summer Session One Documentary Photography: Italy class book. At 150 pages, Annamo is Roman for Let’s Go!, is a pleasure to behold. The volume is rich in variety and sharp in perception, thanks to the class participants’ clever brains, quick wits, and indefatigable feet. Also, all those espressi certainly helped.

Çağla, Katherine, Molly, Cat, Bailey, Camille, Grace, and Chelsy—Rome may seem like a beautiful and distant dream at this point in the fall; however, by the time you are several pages into your book, you will undoubtedly hear the clanging of church bells and clinking of espresso cups, smell the glorious truffle pasta (that’s Orvieto, actually), and be transported back to our beloved Eternal City of summer 2025. The phrase “Experiential Learning” frequently pops up in academia, but now it probably makes much more sense after all that glorious gelato.

Your over-caffeinated-image-obsessed guide, Stephano Apicella, would like to invite you to the book release party on Thursday, October 30th, 5 pm in Keating 1st (just before the screening of The Exorcist at 6 pm). Come see your images on the big screen, billboard-sized, and enjoy all your smart & hard work. In the meantime, if you can’t wait, you can preview your entire book here. Enjoy!

Grazie mille!

📸☕🇮🇹👍 Stephano

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Rome Summer 2024: Documentary Photography

For the first time in three years, the Visual Arts Department will be running our summer course in Rome, and applications are now open for VART 3500 Documentary Photography, a Summer Session 1 course, is open to all students, so feel free to invite your non-Visual Arts Majors/Minors friends.

The course requires no prior experience with photography, and digital cameras will be provided to participants; however, it will be up to you to eat all that delicious gelato. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, so please set up an appointment with either myself or Professor Lawton to speak more about the course if you are interested. The attached PDF shows examples of the previous student photography books, which are the culmination of the class and become a part of the university library collection, as well as some of the exhibitions of student work.

Ciao, Stephan and Joe (Stepahno & Giuseppe)

Program Fee $3,600 + 4 Credits Summer tuition 

What is included:

  • Local Transportation and group pick-up from the Airport
  • Student Housing
  • Welcome Dinner & Farewell Dinner
  • Classroom space, Monday through Thursday, for 15 hours a week (for critiques and Italian film screenings)
  • Cultural Activities/Visits and Day Trips
    • MIC Museum Pass
    • Galleria Borghese
    • Borghese Gardens
    • Vatican Museum
    • Maxxi Modern Art Museum
    • Uffizzi Museum
    • Orvieto Duomo
    • Signorelli Chapel
    • Spanish Steps
    • Trevi Fountain
    • Day trip to Orvieto
    • Day trip to Florence
    • Plus numerous espressi and more!

Application Deadline:

  • Priority Deadline: February 1, 2024
  • Final Deadline: February 15, 2024

Apply here for the program

Fordham Summer Study Abroad ScholarshipCompleted applications must be submitted by February 15. Scholarships are applied toward the summer course tuition for summer study abroad programs offered to undergraduates by the International & Study Abroad Programs Office. Award amounts will range from $500 to $1,500 and will be awarded based on financial need, academic merit, and your study abroad application essay responses.

Apply for the Summer Study Abroad Scholarship

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ARCHIVUM

ARCHIVUM

Projects selected and created by BALCONY: International Network of Curators
Participants: Raya Bruckenthal, Manuela de Leonardis, Richard Demarco, Drorit Gur Arie, Felice Hapetzeder, Michael Lazar, Paul Malone, Tomasz Matuszak, Anibal Pella-Woo, Fabrizio Perozzi, Doron Polak, Nicola Rae, Maayan Tsadka, Jan Van Woensel, Jaroslav Vančát, Joyce Yahouda, Dzintars Zilgalvis, Kriss Zilgalvis
Organizer: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock

Fordham University’s Lipani Gallery
June 23—July 28, 2023
Public reception: Friday, June 23rd, 5—7 pm
Fordham University at Lincoln Center map
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
Map to the Lipani Gallery
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https://balcony-art.com/

Fordham University is proud to present a new exhibition in the Lincoln Center Campus Lipani Gallery, ARCHIVUM, which brings together twelve curators from nine countries to select over thirteen artists. Through various forms, including book, installation, photography, sound, and video, this exhibition’s contributors explore what might constitute an archive. With that question as the starting premise, the works on display provide a range of interpretations of places, events, and institutions and raise numerous questions about research, commerce, history, translation, and memory.

The French philosopher Jacques Derrida stated that the question of archives is not a question of the past. It is a question of the future, a question of response, of promise, and a responsibility for tomorrow. The archive has become raw material and inspiration for many artists over the previous decades. Artists develop different levels of relationship with personal, familial, and public archival material. They move in a flexible space of history and cut across the depths of time. They decompose archival materials, disrupt and reference them, and create new narratives from concrete or imaginary archives. The archival memory they control, mark, and limit starts a conversation in which the artist decides who will enter the gates of memory.

Balcony: International Network of Curators was set up by Drorit Gur Arie, Doron Polak, and Michael Lazar in April 2020 as a network of independent international curators. The platform establishes connections between art curators to exchange professional information and initiate joint projects.

This exhibition, ARCHIVUM, is sponsored by Fordham University’s Department of Visual Art and is organized in New York by Professor Apicella-Hitchcock.

Link to the exhibition
For more information, please contact Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock.

For the Visual Arts Department Website: click here.
Instagram: @visualartsfordham

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Case Study Tokyo 2023

Drum roll, please—clocking in at 312 pages with over 3,000 images and approximately 87 miles of behind-the-scenes walking over nine days—the Case Study Tokyo 2023 book is complete!

Take one part working methodology from the influential 1972 book, “Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form,” combine it with the megacity of Tokyo, add Fordham University Gabelli students, stir for ten days in Japan, and what do you get? You acquire knowledge through experience with a small team, realized in a research volume focusing on branding, sensory marketing, architecture, design, photography, and urban planning.

Preview the entire book online.

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The 2021 Adjunct Faculty Spotlight Catalog

The Fordham University Department of Visual Arts is pleased to announce the release of the 2021 Adjunct Faculty Spotlight catalog on our gallery imprint, Hayden’s Books.

The Department of Visual Arts is fortunate to have so many exceptionally talented Adjunct Professors teaching our students; in fact, we have so many skilled Adjuncts that we had to divide the Spotlight exhibition into two parts during the fall semester. Now, both exhibition installments have been brought together in a single 156-page volume providing a sampling of projects and texts representing each artist/professor.

In both their individual practice and collectively, one can discern a rigorous investigation into visual communication strategies, a spectrum of subjects, and a diverse range of representational methods. Further, this catalog provides an accurate snapshot of the Visual Arts Department, highlighting the breadth of disciplines offered, including film, graphic design, painting, and photography.

The 2021 Adjunct Faculty Spotlight catalog makes manifestly clear that our professors are vital artists as well as outstanding educators in the classroom. The catalog features the following artists: Željka Blakšic, Gabe Brown, Doug Clouse, Lois Conner, Amie Cunat, Dickson Despommier, Patrice Helmar, Matthew López-Jensen, Lois Martin, Anibal Pella- Woo, Kimberly Reinhardt, Vincent Stracquadanio, tochihannah, Lesley Wamsley, Adriana Warner, and Dan Willner.

Organized by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock
Installation: Wilson Duggan

Adjunct Faculty Spotlight Series: Vincent Stracquadanio: strutture d’ombra ?>

Adjunct Faculty Spotlight Series: Vincent Stracquadanio: strutture d’ombra

Adjunct Faculty Spotlight Series:
Vincent Stracquadanio: strutture d’ombra

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113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023

fordhamuniversitygalleries The Department of Visual Arts at Fordham University is pleased to present the first fall installment of the Adjunct Faculty Spotlight Series with Vincent Stracquadanio. The selection of drawings featured in his book, strutture d’ombra (shadow structures), highlights Stracquadanio’s spaces depicting moments of transformation and magic, all of which are marked by rich patterning and dense with visual surprise and reference.

Vincent Stracquadanio: strutture d’ombra is the third publication for Hayden’s Books, a series honoring Hayden Hartnett, a much-loved visual art major. Hayden’s Books focuses on presenting artist projects, research, critical writings, and works in progress.

The Fordham University Galleries are currently closed to the public in response to COVID-19. In the meantime, please visit our gallery website frequently, as our gallery will continue to feature a robust selection of offerings from the different areas of study in the Department of Visual Arts: Architecture, Film/Video, Graphic Design, Painting, and Photography. Stay tuned for more online presentations, discussions, and public dialogues coming this fall as our gallery website functions as a launching platform for a thoughtful engagement with the issues of our times.

Artist Statement: The structures that surround us provide the boundaries that help define and clarify our collective understanding of the world. Their very presence however demarcates the moment of subversion where these structures can be broken down and changed.

The spaces in my work depict moments of transformation and magic. The rich patterning of these spaces is dense with visual surprise and reference. Some spaces are filled with foreboding forms such as dark fire and cloud-like mists that appear to seep through various Sicilian porticos disrupting spatial certainty. Others, archetypal forms like the “Arch” and the “Portal” line technicolor corridors that peer out into a horrific black abyss from a Giallo film. In these spaces, I’ve mined my own relationship to histories of art, family, and self.

These lavish interior spaces collapse and extend using patterning and flatness that eliminates hierarchies between foreground and background, form and formlessness, clarity and confusion. Each picture not only exhibits an interior logic but also presents distinct idiosyncrasies suggesting differentiation in time, event, or architecture. These defined moments are subverted and broken down to begin to illustrate the fluidity of one’s full identity and one’s relationship to histories both individual and shared.

Artist Bio: Vincent Stracquadanio is an artist living and working in New York City. He earned his MFA from the Yale School of Art and a BA in visual arts from Fordham University. He has been exhibited at Good Naked Gallery (NY), New Release (NY), Trestle Gallery (NY), Artspace (CT), among others. He was a nominee for the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant and received both the Gamblin Paint Award and James Storey Memorial Visual Arts Award. Stracquadanio has taught at the Yale University Art Gallery and is currently a museum educator at the Jewish Museum and an adjunct professor at Fordham University.

strutture d’ombra Book Link
Vincent Stracquadanio Website

For further information contact Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock.
For the Visual Arts Department Website: click here.