Alanna Airitam’s powerful portraits of symbolic saints

April 12, 2022

The Center for Creative Photography will feature the work of Tucson-based fine arts photographer Alanna Airitam, April 16-Oct. 29, in Tucson.

Photography and Taiwan

The new School of Art symposium on photography in Asian continues April 7-9 virtually with “Photography and Taiwan: History and Practice.” Organized by the School of Art Assistant Professor Dr. Jeehey Kim, the symposium includes numerous photography curators and historians from such institutions as National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts, […]

Alanna Airitam: The Golden Age

Alanna Airitam’s photographic project, “The Golden Age” celebrates a vision of Black Americans that is uplifting, inspiring, and empowering. In 10 luscious and elegant large-scale portraits, the artist features contemporary African Americans as symbolic saints who are simultaneously magnificent and powerful. The title refers to an era of portrait painting when Dutch Old Masters like Rembrandt […]

Korean photography is the subject of School of Art series

February 15, 2022

The School of Art launches a new symposium series examining Asian photography, starting with “Photography and Korea: History and Practice.”

CCP Front Porch Book Sale

Stop by CCP’s front porch book sale while you’re visiting the Tucson Festival of Books! The Center has reorganized our spaces over the last year to prepare for exciting renovations to our collection storage and upgrades to our Volkerding Study Center, and that means lots of new and used books need new homes. We will have […]

Photograph Conservation in the Trees

Join conservators at CCP in “trees stir in their leaves” to talk about different technologies used to make the photographs displayed in this exhibition. Look at study collection examples and other discovery materials which illustrate common materials and techniques of photography. Conservators will also be on hand to discuss concerns relating to condition and the […]

[POSTPONED] Embodying Self as Subject

The question of the photographed subject presents a central ethical and political challenge today that is invariably bound up with centuries of image production, with the lenses through which we have constructed ourselves and another’s self. [Due to unforeseen circumstances, we regret to inform you that the Thursday, Oct. 27, event at the Center for […]

Zig Jackson Artist Talk

Zig Jackson will speak on The Photographic Journey of Rising Buffalo, a program collaboratively presented by the Andrew Smith Gallery and the Center for Creative Photography. A longtime gallery artist Zig Jackson, also named Rising Buffalo, is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) and the first Native American photographer to be awarded […]

A scientific, artistic look at trees

January 18, 2022

A scientific, artistic look at trees from the Center for Creative Photography and the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, beginning Feb. 5.

Farewell Photography

In the decades following World War II, numerous radical Japanese photographers undertook an aggressive reassessment of the medium. These new non-conformist photographers broke from photojournalism’s norms of objective description and instead adopted a radically expressive, subjective, and critical approach in response to a changing modern world. Publishing in avant-garde zines and underground artists’ journals, their […]