The Hotchkiss School
Photography & Film
The photography and film department is committed to providing a wide range of hands-on experiences in traditional photography, digital photography, video, and related disciplines. Using these technical and conceptual foundations, we seek to inspire students to further artistic explorations. We place great emphasis on skill development as well as perceptual and analytical skills, and we strive to strike a balance between these proficiencies and the student's need for expressive freedom.
Few schools--indeed, few colleges--can match Hotchkiss' photography and videography facilities. In addition to a large classroom studio, there is a teaching darkroom with nine enlargers and four smaller darkrooms. The facility also has a second classroom for screening films, videos, and slides; a video editing room; and a print finishing room where students prepare work for exhibition. Student work is exhibited in the halls of the Main Building and appears in various school publications. Our student work has also been very competitive in Connecticut and national scholastic art competitions. Students are also responsible for the photography in The Mischianza, our yearbook, and Hotchkiss Television (HTV) offers an outlet for students interested in broadcast journalism.
The long-standing tradition of bringing quality art and photography to our students and to the community continues with the Tremaine Gallery. In recent years, the gallery has exhibited the work of such renowned photographers as Harry Callahan, Jim Dow, Walker Evans, Edward Ranney '60, Walter Rosenblum, Aaron Siskind, Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, Carl Chiarenza, and Jerry N. Uelsmann.
Photography courses fulfill the arts requirement.
