January 10–23, 2027
Andina Marie Osorio, Untitled (ven sin nombre), 2026, Galvanized steel, archival photographs, magnets, 41.116 in. x 14.305 in. x 1 in.
Reclaiming the Landscape: Photography, Place & Belonging
with Andina Marie Osorio
Landscape photography has long shaped how we understand land, identity, and belonging. Students will examine how photographers have reinforced and challenged dominant narratives of the American landscape, including nationalism, settler colonialism, and Manifest Destiny, while developing their own photographic practice through image-making, editing, sequencing, and printing. Working across Ox-Bow's campus and the surrounding environment, participants will experiment with pinhole photography, darkroom printing, alternative Polaroid processes, and zine making while creating a body of work that reflects their own relationship to place, memory, and history. Demonstrations, critiques, and discussions support both technical skill-building and conceptual development. Readings and discussions consider photography's role in shaping narratives of place through artists including Dawoud Bey, Ana Mendieta, and Zoe Leonard. Students will read selections from Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass and excerpts from Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak?. A screening of Microcosmos by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou expands conversations about observation, ecology, and the natural world. Students will construct pinhole cameras, create photographic studies throughout Ox-Bow's landscape, and experiment with editing, sequencing, printing, and bookmaking. The final project may take the form of a zine, a series of photographic prints, a collage, or an installation that reflects each student's personal engagement with landscape and place. Students working in the darkroom should note that Ox-Bow's facilities support black-and-white film processing only. Those planning to shoot analog should bring a 35mm camera and be comfortable processing black-and-white film.
Pricing Information: Tuition & Fees; $175 lab fee
Registration Information: Monday, November 16, 2026
SAIC/For Credit Course Code: PHOTO 616 001 | 3 credits
About the faculty artist
Andina Marie Osorio (she/her) is a lens-based artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Osorio’s practice explores the intersections of memory, identity, queer affect, migration, and Black femme sexual politics through assemblage, portraiture and archival work centered on the familial and queer experience.
Osorio’s work has been exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, HESSE FLATOW, Sinclair Gallery, The Latinx Project at NYU, The Clemente and Webber Gallery LA. Residencies include Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program (2024-2025), Center for Photography at Woodstock, Fire Island Artist Residency, Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency and Wassaic Project. She is the recipient of the Aperture Creator Labs Photo Fund, was a finalist for The Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers and the NYFA City Artists Corps Grant. Her work has been featured in Elephant Magazine, Port Magazine, Musee Magazine and W Magazine. She received her BFA in Photography and Related Media from the Fashion Institute of Technology (2019) and an MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art (2024).