Spring 2024 Exhibitions

Kate Jordahl has worked at Foothill College since 1997 and been an active artist and photo educator since 1982. While at Foothill, Jordahl has held the positions of Professor of Photography, Dean of the Fine Arts and Communication Division, and Director of Academic Affairs/Operations for the California Virtual Campus-Online Education Initiative (CVC-OEI). Throughout her diverse 27 years at Foothill, her love of photography and service to her students has been a consistent thread. 

Along with her husband and partner Geir Jordahl, Jordahl works with artists as collaborators, designers, and editors to make photographic books of meaning. The pair founded True North Editions in 2012 to give voice to unique work by artists creating authentically. She was the editor for "Searching for True North" with Modernbook Editions, "Native American Ceremonial Dancers," and "The Village: Bill Owens – Jamaica" for True Editions as well as the "one poem books" which was published with Dreaming Mind Studio. Jordahl published and designed the award-winning "Cultures in Transition: Spirit Heart Soul," featuring the photographs of Oliver Klink. She is currently working on the publication of “The Endless Sphere of Time” with spherical photographs by her partner and “Poetry in Motion” with the equine photographs of Oliver Klink. Both books will be published in 2024.

"Artwork grows with time and echoes through the years. As image-makers and as seekers, we can, over time, make works that seem on the surface divergent while, in their essence, represent a similar vision and a singular voice. My artworks in this exhibition are separated by decades and are a call and response from my younger self to my current self. All of the artworks, from the figure studies to the lumens to the landscapes represent my search for self and my place in the world. When I am seeing and artmaking, I am my most authentic self, and that authentic self is free and untamed. 

I believe art heals and leads the way to understanding. In all my making, I strive to create a pause and an opportunity for reflection. I create quiet work that beckons viewers to contemplate."

Jacque Rupp is a documentary and fine-art photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. A visual storyteller, Rupp uses the camera to challenge and question, offering a unique perspective on the world around us. In her most recent work, Rupp focuses on womanhood, using herself and experiences. As the subject matter, Rupp ventures off in the imagined, exploring issues of identity and purpose. 

Rupp received an MBA from Santa Clara University and later worked as an executive in Silicon Valley. Building on her lifelong passion for the visual arts, Rupp studied photography at Stanford University, at the Los Angeles Center of Photography, and at Santa Fe Workshops. She is on the advisory board for UNAFF (United Nations Affiliated Film Festival), a documentary film festival, and serves on the board of the Weston Collective, a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding student access to photography. 

Her photographs are held in private collections and have been exhibited widely in juried shows and publications. Rupp’s documentary work on farmers in the Salinas Valley has been used by numerous nonprofit organizations both in print and online.

Jacque Rupp was selected as a Critical Mass finalist in both 2022 and 2023.

The arts help us to understand ourselves as they illuminate our common humanity.

As the daughter of a psychologist, I'm deeply curious about the human condition. In life and in art, I strive to connect, to understand, to find common ground. My images are uniquely personal; I’m drawn to intimacy, intensity, and authenticity in my subjects. Having experienced losses early in life, I gravitate toward themes of longing and solitude but always with hints of hope and rebirth not far away. As a woman, I am very interested in issues around female representation, especially over time. Through my art, I both ask and consider answers to complex questions. With the camera in hand, I engage with the world, ever present, and eager to capture the moments that give us all pause to reflect. I’m a storyteller. And with my lifelong love for the moving image, I often create photographs with a cinematic flare.

Tara Pixley, Ph.D., is a queer, Jamaican-American visual journalist and assistant professor of journalism at Temple University. Dr. Pixley will discuss an ethics of care approach to photojournalism through two of her longform projects: Immersed in Oil, which documents the environmental justice issue of toxic oil production in Southern California; and House of Light, which documents a Tijuana shelter run by and for LGBTQ+ Central American migrants and asylees. 

Pixely is a 2022 Reynolds Journalism Fellow, a 2022 Pulitzer Center Grantee, a 2021 IWMF NextGen Fellow, a 2020 awardee of the World Press Photo Solutions Visual Journalism Initiative, and a 2016 Visiting Knight Fellow at Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Her writing and photography have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Newsweek, Allure, HuffPost, Nieman Reports, ESPN Magazine, and The Black Scholar, among many others. Her filmic and photographic work intersect with her scholarship and advocacy, each using visual media to frame race, gender, climate futures, and LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities through a liberation lens. She serves as Vice President of the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Board and is on the Board of stock photo co-op Stocksy United. She is also co-founder and director of Authority Collective—an organization dedicated to establishing equity in visual media—and she is currently working on a book chronicling the move to decolonize the visual journalism industry.

Rosem Morton is a documentary photographer from the Philippines, whose work focuses on daily life amidst gender, health, and racial adversity. As a National Geographic Explorer and an International Women’s Media Foundation Fellow, she explores a diverse range of issues, including the effects of gender-based violence, the unheard stories of healthcare workers, and the forgotten histories that have shaped Filipino culture and migration.