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“I always wanted to photograph the universal subjects.” Mary Ellen Mark
“Then at one point I did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands.” Francesca Woodman
“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.” Yousuf Karsh
“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.” Yousuf Karsh
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Professor Darilyn Regina Rowan is the lead instructor and tenured professor in the Photography Department at El Camino College and has been teaching full-time at ECC since 1989. Her teaching responsibilities have included beginning through advanced film and digital photography classes. Professor Rowan teaches Portraiture, Photographic Creative Processes, Elementary and Basic Photography. She has also taught Intermediate and Advanced Photography, Beginning and Advanced Photo-Journalism, and Color Photography. Professor Rowan has conceptualized, organized and installed student photography exhibitions at El Camino College beginning in 1991 in the college library and in local community galleries. She is responsible for curriculum review, program review, degree and certificate requirements and electives review, and organizing supplies and facilities for the adjunct teaching faculty. In the fall of 2008 Professor Rowan took a sabbatical work assignment with a major art auction house working with fine photographs in the fine arts department , including research into the provenance issues of photographs being prepared for auction. During the spring of 2009 Professor Rowan assisted in the design of the renovated new facilities for the ECC Photography Department. She worked with the college facilities to design spaces for both a wet lab darkroom and a digital Mac Lab for digital photography. The design and layout allows students to produce both traditional wet lab silver gelatin photographs, film color photographs and digital images. For information about the El Camino College Photography Department contact Professor Rowan at drowan@elcamino.edu.
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ECC photography student Gloria Plascencia has a photograph in the juried show South Bay Focus 2011 at the Torrance Art Museum. The exhibition is up from November 29th through December 16th, 2011 with a reception on Saturday, December 3rd 6-9 p.m. Thank you.
Gloria Plascencia Photograph
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The ECC Photography Department is pleased to announce that photographic artist Liza Heider will teach a Master class on photographic printing on fabric Friday, November 18th at 12 noon. Visit Liza’s website under the blogroll to see her profoundly beautiful photographic work. Please contact Professor Rowan at drowan@elcamino.edu to find out more and sign up. The workshop is free of charge to ECC photography students, and the materials will be provided, however it is limited to 20 students. Thank you.
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On Monday, November 14th 7 p.m. Professor Darilyn Rowan gave a presentation to the South Bay Camera Club regarding the annual ECC Student Photography Exhibition at Paul’s Photo in Torrance and on the theme of organizing exhibitions of creative photography. There is a link under the blogroll to the South Bay Camera Club. Thank you.
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On Monday, October 24th the ECC Photography Department hosted The Art of Photography class for an afternoon of creating photograms in the wet lab darkroom. Thank you.
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Paul's Photo ECC Student Photography Exhibition
The reception for the El Camino College student photography exhibition at Paul’s Photo is Friday, November 4th 5-7 p.m. Paul’s Photo is located at 23845 Hawthorne Boulevard. Please join us for an evening of photographic art and student accomplishment. Thank you.
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The Photography Department is pleased to announce that a “Rising Star” article on ECC art and photography student Sarah Edsinga is featured in the October 20th issue of the campus newspaper, The Union. Thank you.
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The El Camino College Photography Department wishes to thank photographer Marissa Roth for her moving and informative discussion on her work as a photojournalist and documentary photographer on Friday, October 21st, 2011.
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