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SACRAMENTO STATE PHOTOGRAPHY ALUMNI HIGHLIGHT FOOD INSECURITY THROUGH YOLO FOOD BANK PARTNERSHIP
“We are trying to tell stories that contain nuance and complexity,” she said. “We’re not looking to tell the same old story that objectifies people receiving services, receiving support. We want to try to tell new kinds of stories, where contradiction, emotion – true humanity – can come to the fore.”. [October 2023]
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STUDENT PHOTO PROJECT EXPLORES HUMANS’ RELATIONSHIP TO LAND
“Sac State students, led by Assistant Professor of Photography Eliza Gregory recently displayed their work at the Verge Center for the Arts in downtown Sacramento [December 2022]. The project showed how photographs can communicate human relationships to the land they occupy”.
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PHOTOGRAPHY STUDENTS CREATE BOOK SET EXPLORING CONNECTION BETWEEN PEOPLE AND PLACE
“The project, one-half of a senior capstone course that continues this semester, connects with multiple Sac State priorities, Gregory and Dertinger said. In line with the anchor university initiative emphasizing the University’s connection and service to the region, the project sends students into communities to work, asking students to explore each community’s diversity. Collectively, the books highlight the students’ diversity”. [December 2021]
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SEEING THE LIVES OF IMMIGRANTS IN OBJECTS AND IMAGES OF HOME
The exhibition, created by the social practice artist, photographer, and San Francisco native Eliza Gregory, grew out of a three-year collaboration with the museum’s Artists Drawing Club. Gregory conducted interviews and collected objects, ephemera, and family photos to create testimonies, or formal accounts, of immigration to the San Francisco Bay Area. “Each testimony offers counterpoints to the contemporary and deeply troubled dialogue around immigration,” she told me. [April 2018]
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Image by Eliza Gregory
‘TESTIMONY’ COMPLICATES ASSUMPTIONS WITH EMPATHETIC PORTRAITS OF IMMIGRANTS
The exhibit — featuring, alongside the interview text and plainly staged portraits, photos of their living spaces and various objects and memorabilia they own — is instead meant specifically to combat our ingrained and unspecified beliefs, to re-frame the conversations we have around immigration, Gregory says. [April, 2018]
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