Photo illustrator Lee Varis defines a Photo-Mandala as a "reflectively symmetrical composition that is generated from one or more straight photographs". The AP Photo students experimented with his techniques recently and out of photographs of houses, the campus, trees, and pumpkins the images below were created.
Christmas Ceramics Exhibition
Don't miss the Christmas ceramics exhibition in the Şahenk Arts Center. The exhibition includes terra cotta animals and figures inspired by Henry Moore make by the Middle School art students and also stoneware ceramics by the High School ceramic students.
New Fall eTASIS feature Alumni Artists
The most recent issue of eTASIS features 12 alumni who are working artists or in college/university finishing up a degree in the visual arts. There are many more than were featured in the article, and we hope more of you will now send us information about your work and advice to current TASIS visual arts students. We have started a new page on this site for Alumni to share their websites and examples of work. Please send any information to alumni@tasis.ch. Please take time to read the Fall eTASIS and see what TASIS alumni are busy working on.
TASIS alumni included in the eTASIS article include:
Patricia Schmidt '04 - fashion designer
Evin Sahin '14 - studying business & photography
Gianna Dispenza '08 - painter & sculptor
Matt Schultz '08 - architect
Ginger Gentili '11 - photographer, photography director, & screenwriter
Chiara Ravaioli '13 - studying spatial design
Sina Mueller '12 - studying graphic design
Stephan Jeanpierre '08 - photographer, designer, & digital filmmaker
Fiona Struengmann '05 - photographer & creative director
Robin Gilli '08 - photographer & videographer
Mila Zanecchia '08 - photographer & videographer
Alex Zanechhia '02 - musician & composer
Sebastião Salgado - an exhibition and encounter!
Each year TASIS photography students study and report on different photographers - past and present. It is no surprise that many of the Brazilian students choose to report on Sebastião Salgado, a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist. This fall there were two trips to Milan to view Salgado's exhibition at the Palazzo della Ragione.
Sebastião Salgado might be one of the most important documentary photographers of our time. His exhibition, Genesis, includes more than two hundred photographs from the tropical forest of the Amazon, the Congo, Indonesia, and New Guinea to the glaciers of Antarctica, and the deserts of Africa. Genesis is a photographic journey across five continents with beautiful black and white images. The students who were lucky enough to get a seat on the van said "it was an amazing exhibition - there were almost too many photographs to take in."
As it happens the exhibition also opened in Brazil this past month, and former TASIS student Pietro Lago sent a photograph of himself with Selgado and his wife. Lucky guy!
TASIS in Motion
If you follow TASIS on social media you likely have seen one of Milo Zanecchia ’08’s videos chronicling the Global Service Program’s recent trips to Malawi and Cambodia. You may have also been moved by the music, by Alex Zanecchia ’02, a Berklee College of Music grad. Since 2012, the brothers have been collaborating on over a dozen short films that have evoked emotional and positive responses from viewers all over the world. They've just completed TASIS in Motion, a video that showcases the best of what our campus and programs have to offer. We hope you enjoy it!
TASIS Literary Magazine - Vox Populi
The Vox Populi 2013-2014 is hot off the presses. Beautiful artwork, writing, and photography from TASIS faculty and students is included in this issues. Congrats to Faculty Advisor Todd Matthew and his Vox crew!