Cypress students visit photography museum at UCR

Professor Burchfield's Photography 101 class headed to the University of California, Riverside Museum of Photography to get away from the normal classroom setting and construction.

On September 12, at 1 p.m. the class was able to listen to the museum's curator, Ciara Ennis, talk about the contemporary photographers that are currently being displayed at the museum.

The photographs that are being placed there currently are by such photographers as: Alec Soth with his theme of "Sleeping by the Mississippi" in which "He followed the Mississippi River up towards the north of the United States," said Ennis. With the recent tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, he was able to capture the desolation and destruction that was left behind.

Another photographer whose work is shown at the museum is Lise Sarfati with her theme called "American Series." "In her theme she tries to capture the very essence of adolescence," said Ciara Ennis.

On the third floor images taken by Jonathan Hollingsworth were on display with the theme of "What We Think Now." She talked about how his pictures were "different," because he didn't take pictures of landscape. He took pictures of people holding a sign to express what they thought at the time.

For more information, go to http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/ or call (951) 827-4787