Gina Costa: Perspectives on Photography (Virtual lecture and discussion)

You're Invited to a Perspectives on Photography Zoom Lecture and Discussion with Gina Costa! Expanding the Boundaries/Expanding the Discourse: Mobile Phone Photography as a Worldwide Art Movement

Registration in advance is required for this event. To register go to the following link: Gina Costa Lecture Registration 

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Gina Costa views mobile photography not only as a convenience, but as a powerful creative tool that can enhance a photographer’s practice. Discussion of some of the most useful and robust apps that can accomplish this will be part of the presentation. This lecture is intended for any photographer interested in mobile technology as a complement to their current creative practice and workflow. The presentation will explore mobile photography as a world-wide art movement and look at work by some of the leading international mobile artists who are continuing to expand the discourse.

According to Costa, "Mobile or cellphone photography is part of the arc of the history of photography’s technical advancements. From the popularity in the early 1900‘s of the photo booth, to the evolution of the polaroid during the '50's and '60's, people have sought inexpensive and immediate ways of capturing the world around them. As technology has evolved, so too did the definition of what was considered a photograph. The cellphone camera has become the logical next step in this historical arc and has shifted the discourse and boundaries  of what we consider to be a photograph."

Gina Costa is a photographic artist, art historian and independent curator. She earned her graduate degree in art history from the University of Chicago and has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. Costa explores multiple photographic formats including film, digital, polaroid and mobile phone. She has taught workshops, exhibited and written about mobile phone photography in the United States and Europe. She is currently a curator and instructor at the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame. 

In addition to being a winner of the 2018 and 2019 Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Award, Costa has won the 2016 Latin American Photography Award. Her work has been featured in Lensculture, F-Stop and Lenscratch magazines and has been shown at: The Mira Foundation, Porto Portugal; Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA; Filter Space, Chicago; Perspective Gallery, Evanston, Illinois; The Rebekka Jacob Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina; the Minneapolis Photography Center; The Vermont Center for Photography; LightBox Gallery, Eugene Oregon; Tethys Gallery, Firenze, Italy: and, MART, Rovereto, Italy. Her works are in public and private collections in the U.S. and Europe including The Fratelli Aliniari Archive in Florence Italy.