Impact

We are moving which means packing which means procrastinating! While moving moving, packing, procrastinating, I found this article that Teachers College Office of Development wrote about my work. Enjoy!

Book Cover

The Student Press Initiative published a book, Triumphant Moments: Reflections on Peace Corps Fellows' First Years of Teaching. They selected an image from my POP project, Shout out for Peace, for the cover. To see the original and final of this image, click here

New Orleans Photo Alliance Exhibit Opening

photo by Morgan Sasser

Two of my photographs taken in Lima, Peru (2002) and Baltimore, Maryland (2007) are on exhibit from Aug 6 - September 20, 2009 as part of the ‘Caliente/Hot’ exhibit at the New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, 1111 Saint Mary Street, New Orleans, LA 70130

The juror, José Torres-Tama, esteemed visual/performance artist and writer, noted that the submissions organically fell in to three distinct categories of heat: Landscape, Bodies and Surreal.

Great photographers possess the uncanny ability to frame our reality with their keen eyes and capture the sublime characteristics of everyday life, or simply focus their lens on what many of us may neglect to observe. While some interpretations of the theme were more understated, most submissions for Caliente / Hot had plenty of calor (heat) and literal fire in them, and there were three distinct categories of images: landscapes, bodies, and the surreal.

From an abundance of strong entries, the photos selected for this exhibit raised my aesthetic temperature gauge the most, and my choices were initially based on a visceral reaction to each file I opened, as a curious curator in search of picante pictures. Once I narrowed my selections, I had to literally go through two additional editing sessions to arrive at this final collection of 33 photos. Some works inhabit a general spirit of mercury-rising levels with provocative and intense imagery while others communicate a cool fever and mysterious danger.

---José Torres-Tama

POP & LiFE

During the 2007-2008 school year Pedagogy of Photography collaborated with LiFE (Linking Food and the Environment) to create photography, literacy and technology projects based on LiFE's Choice, Control and Change curriculum.

Last August I did a presentation educating teachers how to link photography, literacy and the LiFe Curriculum at the Rethinking Food, Health, and the Environment: Making Learning Connections, The Center for Ecoliteracy and Teachers College Columbia University Professional Development Institute.

This summer the Director of the LiFE program has recruited the same POP students who participated in the CCC curriculum to test out LiFESim to try out the game and provide feedback about what they think about the game's design.

The LiFE Program is working with a computer game design firm to develop an interactive computer game to help middle school-aged children make healthier food choices. The game - LiFESim - is based on their Choice, Control, and Change curriculum module which focuses on making students competent navigators of our complex food and activity environment and which has been found successful in changing behaviors.

Permanent POP exhibit at TC, Columbia University

Pedagogy of Photography (POP) is honored that OTE, the Office of Teacher Education & School Based Support Services purchased POP prints for a permanent exhibit at Teachers College, Columbia University. The permanent exhibit will go up in the fall and be located at

400 Russell Hall
525 W 120th Street
Teachers College, Columbia University
New York, New York 10027-6696

What is OTE?

Our purpose is to provide information, support and resources to faculty and students engaged in Professional Education Programs that lead to initial and professional certification.

Our aim is also to work in partnership with faculty colleagues to address program, practice, research and policy issues relevant to the preparation of teachers and other educational specialists.