Student Work

ART 450: Topics in Advanced Photography
University of Southern California
Roski School of Art and Design
Fall 2025

Documentation: 7 Books

The Helen Topping Architecture & Fine Arts Library
April 30 - May 15, 2026

Perfect Bound
36 pages
Printed and Bound at USC Galen Printmaking Lab
Each book, Edition of 3

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University of Southern California
ART450: Topics in Advanced Photography
Spring 2026

Seven students engaged a rigorous syllabus involving readings, lectures, and critique that introduced them to new approaches in making pictures and thinking about photography conceptually. In addition, planned field trips to galleries, museums, and local art professionals studio visits provided inspiration and practical knowledge offering valuable dialogue.

Each student was tasked with developing a cohesive body of photographic work and then publishing three editions of a hand made perfect bound book. Students began with library research, moved to design and layout using the latest software, and finished their work by printing and binding in the Helene V Galen Intermediate Printmaking Lab.

Elsewhere, Beyond
Alia Chand

Perfect Bound with foldout spreads and cardstock/book board cover.
36 Pages
148 gsm smooth text paper, with 216 gsm cardstock cover
241 mm x 178 mm / 9.5 in. x 7 in.

Designed, printed and bound by the artist at the Roski School of Art and Design’s
Helene V Galen Intermediate Lab, at the University of Southern California

Edition of 3

Design inspired by Gus Powell’s The Lonely Ones (ISBN # 978-0-9895311-5-3) and
Allison Rossiter’s Expired Paper (ISBN # 9781942185338).

Photographs inspired by Mercedes Dorame’s Everywhere is West and various works of Eliot Porter.

Shatterpoint
Teo Gonzales

Shatterpoint is a snapshot of the iconography, anxieties, and bastions of culture for Americans during the period of January to April 2026 in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago.

36 pages, 7 in. x 9.5in., Perfect Bound
Paper:
Cover 216 gsm matte
Interior 120 gsm glossy

Edition of 3

Publication date: 2026

Printed in Galen Printmaking Lab, Harris Hall, 2nd floor

ART 450: Topics in Advanced Photography

Inspirations include The 1975: Still ... At Their Very Best: North America (2024) by Jordan Curtis Hughes,
Americas (Triptych) [Miss Girl; Kim, Lyle & Crinoline; Miss America], 1987-88 by Lyle Ashton Harris,
Analogue (2007) by Zoe Leonard.

WAVES
Asako Ishibashi

40 pages, 7.5 in. x 9.5cm, Saddle Bound
Paper:
Cover Arches Watercolor 300gsm on 216 gsm matte
Interior 216 gsm matte
Cyanotype Cover: Arches Watercolor 300 gsm
Cyanotype Prints: Strathmore Bristol 300 Series 270 gsm
35mm Film: Kodak Ektar 100

Edition of 3
Publication date: 2026

Printed in Galen Printmaking Lab, Harris Hall, 2nd floor
ART 450: Topics in Advanced Photography

Summary:

WAVES flows through what the ocean unearths with its rhythmic drawing away and forward rushing of ocean water across beaches, against cliffs, around marine life. This back and forth, and back and forth again, is not only a movement with visual beauty, but a force which moves across our oceans and around the world. It makes its impact felt on the shoreline, where the tide meets land, where waves reveal, deposit, and return to take back again. This intersection is captured throughout WAVES, within a series of cyanotypes and 35mm film photographs, which document how the percussive power of waves glimmer under the sun, crash over marine life, shift everything boulders, and leave seashells, kelp, driftwood, stones, and sand over beaches. The moment a wave crashes, the moment a wave unearths hidden life under sand, the moment a wave trickles away. WAVES holds the moments at the shoreline, low tide, tide pools, and the ocean.

Raised Between
Ty’Lani Lloyd

64 pages, 7.5in x 9.5in, Perfect Bound
62 Colors plates
5 poems and drawings by Ty’Lani Lloyd

Paper:
Cover 216 gsm mirror gloss
Interior 216 gsm glossy

Edition of 3

Publication date: 2026

Printed in Galen Printmaking Lab, Harris Hall, 2nd floor
ART 450: Topics in Advanced Photography

Summary:

Raised Between explores how environment shapes identity, choice, and survival within a community where pressure and possibility exist side by side. Through images and text, it examines how guidance, care, and lived experience are carried forward despite what surrounds us.

Reference Materials :

Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break III
A FAIR TO MEDDLING STORY : Ken Okiishi and Nick Mauss
Unfixed Edited by Sara Blokland and Asmara Pelupessy

Burn
David Chungin Lee

56 pages, 7 in. x 9.5in., Perfect Bound

Paper:
Cover 378 GSM matte
Interior 216 GSM matte

Edition of 3
Publication Date: 2026

Printed in Galen Printmaking Lab, Harris Hall, 2nd floor
ART 450: Topics in Advanced Photography

Summary:

Burn is a book about the things that consume us before they destroy us.
It began with red, but not only as a color. Red became heat, warning, desire, memory, panic, blood, city light, alcohol, skin, water, and aftermath. As I made these images, I kept returning to the same question: what does it mean to burn and still remain here?

This project moves through mental health, love, betrayal, passion, and the private forms of damage that do not always leave visible scars. Some images hold bodies. Others hold objects, spaces, reflections, or fragments. Together they trace states that are difficult to separate from one another: longing from grief, intimacy from danger, beauty from loss, fire from survival.

RED BOOK
Soeun Kim

36 pages, 7.5 in. x 9.5cm, Perfect Bound

Paper:

Cover 216 gsm matte
Interior 215 gsm glossy

Edition of 3

Publication date: 2026

Printed in Galen Printmaking Lab, Harris Hall, 2nd floor

ART 450: Topics in Advanced Photography

This book project explores the symbolic power of the color red as a reflection of contemporary America. Using photographs inspired by politics, capitalism, war, immigration, and my experience as an international student from 2019 to 2026, all colors except red are rendered in black and white to emphasize the emotional and political meaning of red. Through this project, I document both America itself and my personal perspective on the country.

Never Still
Eva Zhang

Saddle-stitched artist book with foldout spreads.
36 pages. 216 gsm glossy paper throughout, including both cover and interior pages. 241 mm × 178 mm / 9.5 in. × 7 in.
Designed, printed, and bound by the artist at the Roski School of Art and Design’s Helene V. Galen Intermediate Lab at the University of Southern California.

Never Still functions as both documentation and extension of Zhang’s show at USC’s Lindhurst Gallery, exploring photography as a shifting and unstable medium rather than a fixed record. Through sequencing, layering, foldout spreads, and fragmented visual pacing, the book reflects themes of environmental fragility, transformation, and the constantly changing relationship between humans and the natural world. The physical act of unfolding pages mirrors the movement within the work itself, allowing images to appear gradually and exist in tension between presence and disappearance. The publication emphasizes materiality and temporality through immersive image relationships, where photographs interact across spreads instead of existing as isolated moments. The structure of the book encourages slow viewing and reflection, treating the publication as a spatial experience rather than simply an archive of images.

Student Work

Storytelling Through Photography: Inland Empire Students Inspired by Lenard Smith

California Museum of Photography

May 3, 2026 to May 31, 2026

Photography classes from Riverside STEM High School and Vista Murrieta High School worked with artist and educator Lenard Smith this spring on a photography workshop inspired by his exhibition, Lenard Smith: Fortuitous Encounters, currently on view at the California Museum of Photography.

Smith constructs still life compositions with found objects including photographic equipment and theoretical publications, studio detritus, and signifiers of Black identity and culture.

To create these photographs, students brought objects from home and worked with Smith in a studio setting to construct their own assemblage sculptures, photographing them against the same colorful backdrops that Smith uses in his own practice. Their compositions explore ideas about the sentimental value of objects, how they can create a narrative through composition, and how their images fit within the idea of an archive.

Installation Views:

ART 451: Large Format Photography
University of Southern California
Fall 2025
Part-Time Faculty

Documentation: Digital Broadsheet
28 Pages
55 gsm improved paper
380 mm x 578 mm / 14.96 in. x 22.76 in.
Printed in the United Kingdom
Edition of 30

Student Work

Installation Views:

Student Work

University of California, Riverside
Visiting Assistant Professor
2023 -2025

Students in each quarter produced cohesive bodies of photographic work, edited their own photographs, sequenced images, designed, printed and bound individual zines as part of a publishing pedagogy.

Their work is now included in the Rivera Library Special Collections and Archives at University of California, Riverside.