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Test the Career Waters with Hands-On Internships
Film and photography majors have taken advantage of internships during the January Short Term to enhance their education and test their career goals in the workplace.
Examples include:
- Film sets: The Long Walk Home, Patriot Games, Another 48 Hours, The Evening Star
- Television shows: "Home Improvement," "ER"
- Museum of Fine Arts (photography department), Houston (with curator Ann Tucker)
- PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York (contemporary photography gallery)
- Sotheby's photographic department, New York
- Life magazine, photography archive
- Various production companies, publishing firms, newspapers, marketing agencies, television stations, and commercial photographers
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"I took a photography class during my senior year from Bob Sulkin, one of the greatest teachers I'll ever have. He encouraged me to go so much further and not to limit myself. During my senior year I spent six months going to the local bus station, riding the buses and meeting people, to do portraits of those who relied on public transportation. I did a series of nine 16 x 10 black and white photographs for my senior thesis. Each told a story, but together they made a statement. It was a window into these people's lives. Photography has changed the rest of my life. I cannot go anywhere and not look without the eyes of a photographer. Every single day of my life I see things so differently because of it."
Elizabeth Saab '97, publisher/editor, homesource / los angeles
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| Hollins Alumnae: Where are they now? |
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Sally Mann has recently been honored as "America’s Best Photographer" by Time magazine. "We wanted to catch people at the top of their form," said Jan Simpson, Time’s Arts editor. In his profile of Mann, National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Reynolds Price said, "Few photographers of any time or place have matched Sally Mann’s steadiness of simple eyesight, her serene technical brilliance and the clearly communicated eloquence she derives from her subjects. . . ." A 1974 graduate of Hollins, Mann also earned her master’s degree in creative writing from Hollins in 1975. Her collections include Second Sight: The Photography of Sally Mann, At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women, Immediate Family, Still Time, What Remains, and Deep South. Her work is featured in several collections, including those of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Corcoran Gallery and Hirschhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Sherry Mansfield '94 is a photographer who was honored with a prestigious grant from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
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Laurie Webb '95, after finishing a highly competitive internship with the Directors Guild of America, now works in feature filmmaking in Los Angeles.
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Laura Hester '96 won a competitive internship through the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. After working on the sets of "Home Improvement" and "Costello," she is currently a freelance television writer and producer.
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Nicole Phillips '03 completed her M.F.A. at the University of Southern California and now works in features filmmaking in California. |
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Lousine Shamamian '98 is working for Women Make Movies. She worked on the movie Boys Don't Cry.
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"Before Hollins, I had never been part of such a vibrant and intimate creative community. There is something about the combination of idyllic surroundings, the individual attention afforded by small classes, and frequent exposure to films, literature, photography, and other art, that helps to tease out one's own artistic voice. Immersed in this fertile environment, I found myself digging more deeply into my creative reserves and exploring new avenues of expression."
Karen Price M.A. '97, M.F.A. program in film and video production, USC School of Cinema-Television; recently directed a documentary on animal rescue; also working on a short film based on a story from her Hollins thesis.
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"At Hollins, internships allowed me to see a whole other side of the business of photography. They helped me narrow my field of interest and find a job right out of college. The
program allowed me to develop my own focus within the curriculum and produce a portfolio by the end of my senior year.
Amy Cavanaugh '97, professional photographer, Roanoke |
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Other graduates have gone onto M.F.A. programs, work in museums, galleries, and advertising agencies, or have become photographers. One was recently named editor of a Dallas interior design magazine, just one year out of her Hollins undergraduate program. There are alumnae with Life magazine, the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and Sotheby's, and one who is an assistant to Annie Leibowitz.
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