Hello Class of 2019!
As most of you probably already know, Saturday, October 11, is the date of the annual Snapshot NYC.
What does this mean to you?
This means that all of you, every Macaulay first year student, will take a photograph on that day. Every year on October 11, since 2006, we have been collecting these photos, building an archive of Macaulay students’ views of New York City on the same date every year.
Your photo can be of any subject–anything that represents how you see New York City on that day–at the intersection of who you are and what you see in your city. You don’t need a fancy camera (anything that takes pictures will do). You just need your creative eye and inquiring heart.
After you take the photo, you will upload it to an online gallery (by October 23!!) (you can find the directions for that here) and a team of student curators, led by a curatorial associate, will mount all the photos in a public exhibition.
But there’s a surprise this year!
This year we are very lucky that the New York Historical Society has again agreed to dedicate a gallery to our students’ photos for public display on Sunday, November 22. (Of course all of you and your friends and family will come to see the exhibition!). YOUR photos, along with those of your classmates, will be on view in a major New York museum gallery.
Want to be a curator?
Maybe you’re interested in being one of the student curators for the event? If so, drop me an email. The student curators get to work with our Curatorial Associate, who is an artist and experienced curator. They get to shape the show, a real museum photography exhibit, for November 22. They get a great credential to put on a resume, and even get some free dinners!
Need more information? Of course you do.
You can find full instructions at eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/snapshot (Be sure to upload your photo–with a title–by October 23, or we can’t promise to exhibit it in the museum!)
I’m very much looking forward to seeing your photos! Don’t forget to shoot them on October 11–anytime in that 24-hour period.
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Joseph Ugoretz, PhD
Associate Dean
Teaching, Learning and Technology
Macaulay Honors College
The City University of New York
35 West 67th St.
New York, New York 10023
TEL 212-729-2920
FAX 212-580-8130
joseph.ugoretz@mhc.cuny.edu
macaulay.cuny.edu
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