Light Work was founded as an artist-run, non-profit organization in 1973. They provide direct support to artists working in photography and related media through residencies, publications, exhibitions and a community-access lab facility.
The 2019 Newhouse Photography Annual is featuring work by photography students in S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. This exhibition comprises more than 25 thematically diverse photographs by Newhouse’s multimedia photography students. The exhibition represents various approaches to photographic practice and technique and showcases the range of images that today’s students are producing. Selected works will be on view in the Hallway Gallery at Light Work from March 18 – July 27, 2019.
The exhibiting artists are Michele Abercrombie, Zack Bolton, Emily Elconin, Zach Krahmer, Jordan Larson, Sam Lee, Levingston Lewis, Gavin Liddell, Todd Michalek, Ally Moreo, Skye Schumacher, Liam Sheehan, Jes Sheldon, Maranie Staab, Doug Steinman, and Romy Weidner.
Caroline Smith, editor of photography and visuals at TOPIC, served as juror to select images for Best of Show and Honorable Mention awards. Maranie Staab took Best of Show and Honorable Mentions went to Emily Elconin and Sam Lee.
I selected an arresting frozen moment in time that rewards the viewer’s deeper investment in the photograph. At first glance, merely a snapshot of children at play, the photo teases but ultimately withholds meaning, raising deeper questions as your eye flits from one child to the next. What kind of institution is this? What are the relationships of the children to each other? To themselves? Each child is captured in a different emotional and physical state, artfully composed in a dynamic interplay that allows the eye to wander over the tension-filled, ambiguous frame.
Maranie Staab is an independent photographer, videographer and journalist working to document human rights and social justice issues, displacement and the impact of conflict on individuals and society. Her work focuses on people with the aspiration that she might help further understanding of the human experience through intimate, human-centered storytelling using still images, motion picture and the written word.
She has been a full-time photographer since September 2015 when she took a proverbial leap of faith, leaving her well paid, yet unfulfilling, 9-5 job to pursue photography and journalism. Maranie calls Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania home but is currently a Newhouse graduate student in Syracuse, New York. Maranie has published work in The Atlantic, Reuters,Esquire, CNN, Huffington Post, Arte Magazine (Berlin), Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Mashable, Rudaw and works regularly with numerous Pittsburgh area newspapers and magazines.
March 18 – July 27, 2019 Light Work Hallway Gallery
Robert B. Menschel Media Center 316 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, New York 13244 USA
