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Program Contacts
Freya Powell, Program Director
Parsons' BFA Photography program is housed on four floors of 66 Fifth Avenue, on the school's Greenwich Village campus. It operates traditional black-and-white and alternative-process darkrooms, three state-of-the-art digital labs, a Chromira 5X Prolab Digital C printer, and six lighting studios. It is supported by full-time technicians who are experts in the fields of photography, video, and expanded media.
The Equipment Resource Center (ERC) is a professional-grade resource specifically for student use. It houses a range of photographic, video, audio, multimedia, and installation equipment. The ERC maintains digital and analog film camera equipment from a wide range of medium-format, 35mm, and large-format cameras, as well as lenses, tripods, accessories, and other industry-standard photographic equipment for each format.
The ERC's relationships with industry brand leaders enable the center to learn about and purchase the latest in digital equipment, including a number of medium-format digital backs, as well as many kinds of Canon and Sony HD video and cinema equipment.
The darkroom facilities, located on the fifth floor, include an 18-station black-and-white darkroom equipped with Omega LPL enlargers capable of printing 4" x 5" negatives, a film developing area, and a color-balanced print viewing room that allows students to make precise color corrections. The alternative process lab supports the following processes: Cyanotype, Van Dyke Brown, Anthotype, Lumen Printing, Image transfers, amongst others.
This floor also houses a Chromira 5X Prolab Digital-C printer, with the ability to digitally expose and develop prints on photographic luster, glossy, and metallic paper up to 30" wide.
Located on the third and fifth floors are digital and print facilities that support students' processes from start to finish. These facilities consist of Mac computer stations with industry standard Eizo monitors, flatbed scanners, Flextight virtual drum scanners for professional-quality film scanning, and small and large format inkjet printers which can print up to 64” wide. Also included is the DT Atom, a modular tabletop digitization station equipped with a medium format digital back and specialized accessories. This station produces high-resolution reproductions of reflective and transparent materials—including prints, books, and film—that meet the archival standards used by leading institutions. In the print finishing room students can view, trim, press, and mount their work under professional print viewing conditions.
These machines are loaded with Adobe Creative Cloud software—including After Effects, Bridge, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro—as well as Capture One. The labs are also equipped with many output options, including several small- and large-format printers capable of producing museum quality fine art prints up to 64” wide.
Shooting studios are located across three floors and range from 500 square feet to 800 square feet in size. The studios are equipped with Profoto strobes, Nanlite RGB LED Spotlights, base grip equipment—including c-stands, grip arms, crossbars—tether stations outfitted with iMac computers, and gray, white, black, and chroma green seamless backgrounds. In addition, the ERC provides strobes, continuous lighting equipment, and light modifiers for students to use off-campus.
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