'Capturing the Human Experience' Exhibition
College of Architecture + Design building, University of Tennessee Knoxville.
Opening: October 27, 2019
Duration: two weeks
Exhibition design: Juliana Rogers & Corley Kotler
Supervisors: prof. Mark DeKay, prof. Diane Fox
Consultant: Pygmalion Karatzas
Participating students: Allison Bierman, Riley Doty, Sydney Kilburn, Corley Kotler, Connor Morss, Delaney Philips, Sam Richwine, Juliana Rogers, Grace Shoffner, Caitlin Turner.
Impressions from the 'Capturing the Human Experience' exhibition.
"In May of 2019, 3 staff and 10 students trekked 2600 km of Greece by foot, bus, ferry and plane to study architecture and landscapes from the ancient classical sites to contemporary works, using photography to document, represent and express. Developed and conducted by prof. of architecture Mark DeKay, editor and coach Susanne Bennett, and architect and photographer Pygmalion Karatzas, we shot only in RAW format and fully manual mode, post-processing in Lightroom and Photoshop. The course takes as a theme the human experience of buildings and landscape, particularly, the experience of nature and natural forces—in urban and village settings. Building on the instructors’ collaboration and scholarship of architectural photography, students engaged its expressive, editorial and documentary types, in the technology of digital production and the presentation of work. Each photographer developed a personal creative intention to guide the artistic vision. It was a time of breakthroughs, transformations and communions with people and place."
The exhibition installation used some of the course’s features for its design customised for the display space. The timeline of the itinerary was utilised by the linear space; the four regions visited in Greece were used to cluster the body of work (group 1 - Athens, group 2 - Santorini, group 3 - Crete, and group 4 - Peloponnese). The final images produced by the students were combined and mixed with the behind-the-scenes images taken during the trip to underscore the volume of the visited locations, the traveling scope, and the overall energy of the group. A first selection from all the participants were printed in three sizes to compose the collage style of each group in the timelines; and a second selection were compiled in video presentations at the end of the panel played in two monitors.
Video 1 - images from Athens.
Video 2 - images from Santorini.
Video 3 - images from Crete.
Video 4 - images from Peloponnese.