The Department of Visual Arts at Fordham University is pleased to present the 2018 installment of the annual Faculty Spotlight Exhibition. Each year three members from the Department of Theater and Visual Art are asked to share a sampling of their production with the Fordham community. This year the Photography concentration is represented by both Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock and Anibal Pella-Woo with Mark Street representing the Film/Video concentration. Despite the differences in their mediums and approaches, their works generate a lively dialogue in regards to narrative strategies, presentation of history, and representational methods.

Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock

The twenty images presented are selected from a body of work made in the south of Japan over the past nine years. I first started walking throughout the small island of Hikoshima during visits to see my wife’s family. After my son was born I continued my walks; however, with him strapped to my chest, my camera in one hand and a baby bottle in the other. Now my son and I walk the island together and he often points out things to me that he thinks would make interesting images.

Anibal Pella-Woo

Pictures of: Verticals and Horizontals
“History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past.”
–John Berger, “Ways Of Seeing.”
“An individual is no match for history.”
–Robert Bolaño, “By Night in Chile.”
These images were sourced from over 38,000 images that were rescued or recovered from used, low capacity compact flash memory cards. The cards were purchased online in 2017 and 2018.

Mark Street

Five films looped; some inspired by micro narratives recorded in urban milieus, another an investigation of a few scenes culled from a 35mm print of a Dutch/French thriller, another made by painting the actual emulsion of film. The frame slips and slides in these works; the rectangle is refracted and reconstituted.

Lost Notes from Home, 2017, 33m TRT
Zoom, 2018, 6m TRT
Seance, 3m TRT
The Gloaming, 2017, 15m TRT
Lima Limpia, 2014, 12m TRT