Group Critique 2: MEET THE FACULTY
March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 & April 6, 13, 2022
WEDNESDAYS, 6:30 - 9:30PM ET
LEVEL: Intermediate
LIMITED TO 10 STUDENTS
CLASS FEE: $375
ABOUT THE CLASS
Hosted by PhotoPhlo Founder Matthew Baum, this fast-paced online 7-week group critique class will feature guest visits by PhotoPhlo Founding Faculty members Isaac Diggs, Jaime Permuth, Corinne Botz, Christopher Rodriguez, and Jade Doskow.
In this course’s unique format, students will share ten photos every class, modifying their presentations from week to week by substituting at least three of the ten images with other photos. Students will receive regular feedback from Matthew and the class, as well as fresh insights from the guest instructors during weeks two through six. Through this process, students will become more attuned to how their images are working together, and use this information to develop existing projects and discover new photographic ideas and creative avenues.
This class is meant for intermediate photographers who are making photos consistently and/or going through their archives with the intention of developing or identifying a project. Photographers who enroll in this class should have at least some experience offering and receiving critical feedback.
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PhotoPhlo Founder Matthew Baum is a photographer and educator based in the Taconic Mountains of northwestern Connecticut. He earned a BA in American history from Brown University, studied architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts. Matthew has been on faculty at NYU-Tisch School of the Arts, University of California-Davis, Hunter College and the School of Visual Arts in New York City where he has taught historical, conceptual and technically-based seminars and studio classes to undergraduate, graduate and continuing education students. He was also Co-Founder and Director of the VisuaLife photography education program, working with underprivileged youth in NYC. Utilizing a variety of creative approaches, Matthew’s work has consistently explored the social and cultural fabric of the United States through both its historical record and present-day circumstances. Matthew’s photography has been exhibited widely at venues in the United States and abroad.
Corinne Botz is an artist and educator, whose practice engages with issues including narrative, space, gender, and the body. Her photographs have been widely exhibited, and her published books combining her photography and writing include The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death (The Monacelli Press, 2004) and Haunted Houses (The Monacelli Press, 2010). Botz’s photographs have been internationally exhibited at such institutions as the Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), Wurttembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart, Germany); De Appel (Amsterdam), Turner Contemporary (UK), and Benrubi Gallery (NYC). Her short film “Bedside Manner” (2016) won the Grand Jury Prize at DOC NYC. She has held residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Atlantic Center for the Arts; Akademie Schloss Solitude; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Mana Contemporary. Botz is the recipient of both the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Jerome Foundation grants. She received her BFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art and her MFA from Bard College. Botz is on the faculty of International Center of Photography and John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY).
Isaac Diggs is a photographer and educator. For two decades he has photographed the urban fabric of cities and communities in the United States and abroad. His work has been exhibited in the United States and Japan, and is part of the collections of the Walker Art Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art and MOMA, among others. Diggs has received support from the Asian Cultural Council, The Center for Photography at Woodstock and The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. His work has been published in Vanity Fair, Harper’s and i-D Magazine. He received his B.A. in English Literature at Columbia University, his M.F.A. in photography from the Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, and studied independently with Daido Moriyama and Stephen Shore. Diggs has taught in the BFA and MFA programs at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His three books include 125th: Time in Harlem (with Edward Hillel), Middle Distance or the Anxiety of Influence: Photographs from Los Angeles (2019), and Lagos (2019). His fourth title, Electronic Landscapes: Music, Space and Resistance in Detroit (with Edward Hillel), was shortlisted for the Aperture/Paris Photo Book Award in 2021.

New York-based architectural and landscape photographer Jade Doskow is known for her rigorously composed and eerily poetic images that examine the intersection of people, architecture, nature, and time. Doskow is best-known for her work Lost Utopias, Freshkills, and Red Hook. Doskow holds a BA from New York University’s Gallatin School and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. She is the subject of the 2021 documentaryJade Doskow: Photographer of Lost Utopias; the film’s New York premiere was held at the International Center of Photography in October 2021 and has also screened at the Asheville Museum of Art and in film festivals internationally. Doskow was one of 50 women featured in the award-winning 2018 publication 50 Contemporary Women Artists from 1960 to the Present. Doskow’s photographs have been featured in VQR, New York Times, Aperture, Photograph, Architect, Wired, Musée Mag, Smithsonian, Slate, and Newsweek Japan, among others. Doskow is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography and the City University of New York. Jade Doskow is the Photographer-in-Residence of Freshkills Park, New York City.

Jaime Permuth is a Guatemalan photographer and long-time New Yorker currently based in Seoul, Korea. He is a recipient of a Smithsonian Institution Artist Fellowship as well as an NFA Fellowship from the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. Nominated for both the Prix Pictet and a USA Artists Fellowship, he has received awards from Adobe’s Creative Residence Community Fund as well as the Urbanautica Institute and AI AP’s Latin American Fotografia Competition. His first monograph, Yonkeros, was published by La Fabrica Editorial (Madrid) in 2013 and a second, The Street Becomes, was published by Meteoro Editions (Amsterdam) in 2021. For the past decade, Jaime has been on the faculty of the Masters in Digital Photography program at New York City’s School of Visual Arts where he was also the curator of the i3 Photo Lecture series. Among others, his work has been featured in exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, The Queens Museum of Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Museum of the City of New York, The Jewish Museum, El Museo del Barrio, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Christopher Edward Rodriguez is a photographer whose work explores humankind's relationship to the natural world. He has exhibited at Sasha Wolf Gallery, Maybaum Gallery, Sarah Shepard, Newspace Center for Photography, Current Space, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, among others. His images have also been featured in Humble Arts Foundation, Wired and the Huffington Post. Chris’ self-published monograph, Sublime Cultivation, 2014 is in the collection of the Newspace Center of Photography Library. He has also completed artist in residence programs at Wassaic Project and Platte Clove Catskill Center. Originally from New Orleans, Chris earned his Bachelor of Architecture from Louisiana State University and received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He is a visual arts educator and has taught at several institutions including Pratt, ICP, and the School of Visual Arts.