DOP in Nepal | Bates Photography Featured in Higher Education

 DOP in Nepal

Authors: Mary Pols

DOP in Nepal

Beyond the numbers, Bates is well represented in this year’s Almanac, which exclusively features photos from campus by members of the Bates Communications photography team, from the striking cover image by Multimedia Producer Theophil Syslo to a half-dozen images by Phyllis Graber Jensen, director of photography and video, as well as a dynamic piece of sports photography made by a member of the BCO student visual team, Matthew Hamilton ’25 of Sudbury, Mass.

These scenes of life at Bates were chosen by Erica Lusk, senior photo and media editor for both The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Some months ago, Lusk asked Graber Jensen if Bates would be willing to lend its work to illustrate the issue, to evoke the hybrid nature of higher ed in 2021–22, with the pandemic still weighing heavily on our minds —notwithstanding a highly vaccinated population — and changing the way we learned, taught, played, and danced. The Chronicle had used photography from a single institution last year, and she’d wanted to do so again.

Already familiar with Graber Jensen’s work, and drawn to the deep storytelling of the college’s photography-focused Exposure presence, Lusk asked if Bates would be interested in filling the same role. “I’ve been a fan of Phyllis and her work for years and was happy to have an opportunity to finally collaborate,” Lusk says.

“We were honored to be asked,” Graber Jensen says, adding that she had admired the way last year’s issue featured imagery from photojournalist Charles Ledford at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Source : https://www.bates.edu/news/2022/08/22/bates-photography-exclusively-featured-in-special-issue-of-chronicle-of-higher-education/