E. "Money" Banks

Edward Banks is from Los Angeles and is 16 years old. He is going into the 11th grade at Los Angeles School of Global Studies. He fell in love with photography at 10 years old when Edward met Andrew, a NBA and WNAB photographer. Since he was ten, Edward has love to take basketball and football photos. His goal in the world is to become a NBA or NFL photographer. Tisch School of the Arts gave Edward a chance to learn more and become a better photographer.

It's only the beginning

This morning as we worked for the last few hours we had to prepare for our final exhibition, it had not even occurred to me yet that this was the last day we would all be together. When you live with an especially great group of people for 4 weeks, you become so comfortable with each other. We created our own little home away from home and became a photo family. During the scurry, agitation, and frustration of this morning's work to make sure each person's project looked as amazing as the next, we were all glad to have something to remember each other by with the portfolio exchange. Now we all have one picture from everybody involved in the program and we have that one special picture to remember them by. 

During the final exhibition, it was great that the students were able to show our friends and family how we have grown and learned new things in the past 4 weeks. As we all walked through the department trying to read the artist through their photographs, a few students talked about their work and what it meant to them. I had also just realized that each student's project talked about them in a personal way if they meant to or not because the art work that we have worked so hard for to create and look beautiful became a part of them which was great for all the friends and family to see how much we have grown as artists and individuals. A treat today was that we received the book from the professional photographer Jamel Shabazz who was unable to make it to our show until the end of the reception when we were all so pleased to see him. He was very interested in our work and is incredibly gracious. He was so passionately involved with all the students.

Today we left this program with so many new things. We have new ideas, new experiences, new memories, new creations, and new friends. It's really hard to describe what 21 people share together but it was mainly life, not only by living together but by working, seeing, hearing, talking, sharing, laughing,  and listening with each other. It was incredibly sad that it all has to come to an end but I think of what Nichole said today "the program may be ending, but this is just the beginning of this community."

Simply, 

Harry

Harry Yatkowitz

Harry Yatkowitz was born and raised in New York. He was always interested in photography and finally found his passion for it when he took his first photography class this year. As his passion grew for photography he was eager to learn more than what was being put in front of him. His photographs are inspired by street life and portraiture and how you can capture the natural things people do during the day that might be so simple and average, and make it interesting. His work is inspired by photographers like Helen Levitt, Sylvia Plachy, and Jamel Shabazz who courageously photographed the streets of New York City and created outstanding images of what might be average to other people. In his final project he was mostly intersted in human emotion and how people hide their feeling from the rest of the world and expressed that through his narrative in "Portraits without a face". This summer program was the first photography class he had taken outside of his high school and it created a more creative environment for his photography skills to grow and he is excited to learn more, shoot more, and create more.

Sophi Glazycheva

Sophi Glazycheva was born in Moscow, Russia and currently resides in the middle of nowhere (formally called Churchville, Pennsylvania). This summer program was Sophi's first encounter with photography, and though things have been stressful, she feels that the work has paid off, and that she has learned an immense amount of very valuable information. Sophi will be a senior at Germantown Academy this fall, and she's pretty excited to finally have an excuse for senioritis. After she takes her SATs for the last time, that is. Sophi will be the House Representative in SGA, president of Film Club, and one of the editors for Academy Monthly, the school literary magazine.
Sunday morning Sophi will be flying off to Moscow to visit her family and friends until September. She's really looking forward to going, but is a little sad to leave New York behind. Even if it's overcrowded and often smells like garbage. there's just something to it.

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Brittany Glassman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since then she has moved to the suburbs of her hometown. Recently, Brittany celebrated her 17th birthday. Brittany has been photographing for four years and plans to continue to take pictures and make art for both enjoyment and showcasing. The artist began photographing when she decided to take a summer course during the summer before she entered high school.

The artist's work depicts everyday aspects of life that people take for granted. She thrives to provoke feeling through her images that prompts the viewer to realize the beautiful environment they exist in. For example, her most recent work featured images of clouds paired with other scenes in order to create one emotion.

Maddie Klett

Maddie Klett was born in Washington D.C. and currently lives in Arlington Virginia.  She is a junior at Yorktown High School. Maddie has been developing and printing her own black and white film since the age of eleven.  She has been on the Yorktown yearbook staff since her freshman year and is the advertisement editor for her current Junior year.  She has also been rowing crew since her freshman year of high school.  Maddie's work focuses on meeting and interacting with people while shooting then in the places most natural to them.  

Jamie Solomon

Jamie Solomon was first introduced to photography in tenth grade at the age of fifteen. She immediately fell in love and began getting more and more involved. At the time she did both studio art and photography, but eventually she decided to devote all of her art classes to photography. 

In the fall of eleventh grade she founded the Photography for Community Service Club (Photo Club), which quickly became the second largest club on campus to Student Council. As president of Photo Club she has organized many events to get the student photographers involved with the Los Angeles community and each event has been extremely successful. She has also been a volunteer photographer for community service events including a stem cell drive for Be An Angel, Save A Life and a fundraiser for Women Against Gun Violence. She hopes to continue working with the Los Angeles community sharing the knowledge of photography and working on her own artwork all the while.