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.
Ground Meets Water: Photographs by Michael Chovan-Dalton ?>
The Fordham University Galleries Ildiko Butler Gallery June 9 – September 7, 2025 Fordham University at Lincoln Center map 113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue New York, NY 10023 fordhamuniversitygalleries
In 1993 I moved to Hoboken, New Jersey and began to explore what this latest version of home was going to mean to me. After travelling along different NJ Transit rail lines, and wandering around different train stations, I found myself being drawn to ponds, reservoirs, and rivers that had become fishing holes for families. The spiritual and adventurous interactions between parents and children, along with the feeling that a tradition or an important skill was being passed along, was fascinating and beautiful to me.
I call this work Ground Meets Water because I always felt that there was a coming together at these fishing holes, a kind of “levelling of the playing field” with me and with others. People were generous with their time, their food, and their conversation and I am grateful for that. — Michael Chovan-Dalton
Michael Chovan-Dalton is a photographer and Professor of Photography at Mercer County College in New Jersey and the Director of the JKC Gallery in Trenton NJ. He is the producer of PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf and the host of Real Photo Show podcasts. He is also a founding member and curator of the Homecoming Biennial at RIT and the media partner for the Chico Portfolio Review in Montana. His work is in the collections of SF MOMA and The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma. Chovan-Dalton received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts and his MFA from Columbia University.
URBAN DEVOTIONS: Images of Faith in the City, A Photographic Exhibition by David Gonzalez ?>
The Fordham University Galleries Lipani Gallery January 21 – February 17, 2025 Fordham University at Lincoln Center map 113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue New York, NY 10023 fordhamuniversitygalleries
RECEPTION JANUARY 23rd, 6-7:30PM
New York has been a city of faith, whether it’s small devotions in unexpected nooks or bold public declarations of belief. And with a global city reshaped every few generations, traditions offer a familiar and comforting touch, if not hope itself, in every corner of the city if you look. Indeed, as the writer Oscar Hijuelos once said to me about New Yorkers who go about their days oblivious to the nuances of faith: “They are like tone-deaf. They hear a piano being played and they only hear ‘thunka-thunk.’ There is this wild jazz going on called religion and some people don’t have the chops.” -David Gonzalez
The Fordham University Galleries Ildiko Butler Gallery November 25, 2024 – January 17, 2025 Fordham University at Lincoln Center map 113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue New York, NY 10023 fordhamuniversitygalleries
The Visual Arts Program at Fordham University and the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs are please to present The Intimacy of Prayer, an exhibition of Chester Higgins’ photographs of various forms of devotion taken across the Untied States, Africa, and the MENA region.
Photographer and author Chester Higgins was born in Alabama in 1946 and was formally educated at Tuskegee University, graduating in 1970. Experiences with his family’s church community, as well as with college campus student protest, were formative in developing the direction of Higgins’s artistic practice. Higgins’s oeuvre portrays the dignity of the African American and African diasporic communities, and this work has brought Higgins all over the world, and to Africa in particular, many times. Higgins worked as a staff photographer for The New York Times from 1975 until 2014, and is the author of several publications, including Black Woman (1970); Drums of Life (1974); Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa (1994); Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging (2000); and Echo of the Spirit: A Photographer’s Journey (2004).
Higgins’s work has been the subject of many international exhibitions and is held in notable collections, such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art. Higgins lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
