University of Nevada Reno

Reno - 1664 N. Virginia Street - Church Fine Arts, Mail stop: 0224 - NV 89557

The University of Nevada, Reno’s Department of Art, Art History and Design offers a forward-looking Photography and Videography program that bridges traditional photographic techniques with contemporary digital practices. Rooted in the fundamentals of visual storytelling, the program teaches students how to craft images that communicate emotion, narrative, and cultural insight. While embracing the possibilities of digital media, it remains deeply connected to photography’s origins—capturing light, framing a moment, and revealing human experience through visual composition.

Students in the Photography and Videography emphasis explore a curriculum designed to develop both technical expertise and conceptual awareness. Courses introduce camera operation, lighting, composition, and post-production editing, alongside explorations in video production and sound design. This combination of still and moving image practice allows students to work fluidly across mediums, shaping stories that reflect both personal expression and collective meaning.

Throughout their studies, students are encouraged to think critically about photography’s role in society and its power to influence perception and change. The program fosters visual literacy, teaching students to read, interpret, and construct images with intention. Assignments and projects often engage with contemporary themes—environmental awareness, social justice, and cultural identity—making photography not only an art form but also a tool for reflection and advocacy.

Hands-on experience is central to the program’s philosophy. Students work in digital labs and studios equipped with the latest imaging technology, while also exploring the creative possibilities of analog and experimental processes. Faculty mentors guide them through personal projects, critiques, and exhibitions that build confidence and a professional portfolio.

By the time they graduate, students from the University of Nevada, Reno’s Photography and Videography program emerge as thoughtful image-makers—artists and storytellers capable of translating vision into impact in a rapidly evolving visual world.

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All About Photo Presents ’ Civilization’ by Damien Aubin

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All About Photo Presents ' Civilization' by Damien Aubin

In Civilization, Damien Aubin turns his lens toward environments shaped not by nature, but by ambition. These are places engineered at a scale that exceeds the individual — infrastructures, industrial complexes, vast architectural systems that dwarf the human body and often eclipse it entirely. There are no protagonists here. No narratives unfolding in real time. Instead, Aubin photographs what remains when activity recedes: structures that continue to stand, operate, or simply endure.

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Elliott Erwitt: Gold Standard

Weinstein Hammons Gallery is pleased to present Elliott Erwitt: Gold Standard, the third exhibition of photographs by Elliott Erwitt (1928–2023), one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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FotoFocus Announces Big Tent Opening of FotoFocus Center

This summer, FotoFocus will expand on their vision and embark on a new chapter with the launch of Big Tent, the inaugural exhibition at the new FotoFocus Center, a 14,700 square foot, purpose-built structure to house photographic exhibitions and year-round programs. Bringing together work by over fifty artists (including An-My Lê, Catherine Opie, Dawoud Bey, Gordon Parks, Justine Kurland, Mitch Epstein, RaMell Ross, Sky Hopinka, Tina Barney and many more), the exhibition (on view May 29-August 22) reflects upon the current state of American democracy while also considering the efficacy of photography to be a catalyst for meaningful change.

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The Queering of Photography by Asa Johannesson

Stills are delighted to announce their spring exhibition: The Queering of Photography by Åsa Johannesson; the artist’s first solo exhibition in Scotland. The Queering of Photography takes place from 1 May – 27 June 2026, Preview: Thursday 30 April, 6–8pm. Åsa Johannesson is an artist working across photography and writing. Over the past two decades she has explored the possibilities of queer visual vocabulary within photographic portraiture – a practice that intertwines queer documentary approaches with performative formalist aesthetics.

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Eko: Japan In Two Visual Narratives

From 5 March 2026, The National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam presents the exhibition Ekō – Japan in two visual narratives. Curated as artists conversing across time, the exhibit juxtaposes early photographs of Japan from the museum's own collection, including those by Felice Beato, with the contemporary work it inspired as captured by photographer and visual artist Anaïs López.

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Photography and the Black Arts Movement at the Getty

From February 24 to June 14, 2026, the J. Paul Getty Museum presents Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985, a landmark exhibition exploring how photographic practices helped shape one of the most influential cultural movements of the twentieth century. Organized by the National Gallery of Art, the exhibition reveals how artists across the African diaspora used images not simply to document history, but to transform it.

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MoCP at Fifty: Collecting Through the Decades

The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) proudly announces its 2026 exhibition, MoCP at Fifty: Collecting Through the Decades, on view from January 22 through May 16, 2026.

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Brassaï’s Secret Paris

In 1933, captivated by the nocturnal rhythms and hidden corners of Paris, the Hungarian-born photographer Brassaï published Paris by Night, a landmark photobook that forever transformed how the city of lights was imagined. Through his lens, Brassaï illuminated the city’s shadowed streets, smoky cafés, solitary lovers, and night-time wanderers, creating images that were simultaneously intimate and cinematic. Paris by Night did more than document the city—it defined a modern vision of Paris after dark, capturing a blend of elegance, vulnerability, and intrigue that had never been seen in photography before

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Photo Vogue Festival: Women by Women

The PhotoVogue Festival, the first conscious fashion photography festival to bridge ethics and aesthetics, returns to Milan for its tenth anniversary in 2026. From March 1 to 4, during Milan Fashion Week, the festival will take place at the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, one of Italy’s most historic and prestigious libraries—a fitting venue for a milestone edition that underscores the festival’s commitment to thoughtful, socially engaged photography.

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