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In her address to the graduating class, Winfrey said something that captures the essence of SCAD for so many of its students. “I love SCAD because it is in alignment with the highest order that we’re all seeking,” she said. “We’re all seeking to be the truest, purest, highest expression of ourselves as human beings. And so, you’ve been able to do that here at this university, express yourself fully, artfully, collaboratively, with each other, with yourself.” Though I was sadly not in attendance (I graduated with my M.F.A. in photography last year and will complete my M.F.A. in writing next year), Winfrey’s words really resonated with me—because her words spoke of exactly what SCAD Atlanta has meant to me, both as an artist and as a human being. I had always wanted to study photography, ever since I was a kid. My dad was a hobbyist photographer at the time, and I used to play around with his Fuji 35mm film camera. When I was eighteen, he bought me my own film camera, a Minolta. I even got a job at a one-hour photo lab. You would think I was poised to start my career in photography. Unfortunately, what happens to so many young artists happened to me. I was told art wasn’t “serious.” No one around me considered photography a real job—especially if it was fine art photography. So I never opted to study it. I began by studying religious studies instead, with the intention of earning my Ph.D. and teaching college. I earned my B.A. from Georgia State University and went on to enter the M.A./Ph.D. program in religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Though religious studies was fascinating, and while I professors and students at both GSU and UCSB were some of the most wonderful people I’ve ever met, studying religion came to feel too limiting for me. In my second year of studies, we began reading about psychoanalysis. Freud and Nietzsche and so on. I was captivated by their work and, after completing my M.A., I left UCSB to study clinical psychology at nearby Antioch University, Santa Barbara. After two years of study at Antioch, I earned my M.A. and began working as a psychotherapy intern at a local nonprofit organization dedicated to helping LGBTQ clients. I had landed my dream job. It wasn’t photography, but I still loved it. I could always do photography on the side, I told myself. One day, I got a call from my supervisor. Speaking through tears, she told me that the clinic was closing due to lack of funds. I’d lost my dream job. Now, I could have stayed in California and found another job. There are other clinics that serve LGBTQ clients. Or I simply could have built up a primarily LGBTQ clientele. But life was also happening. A relationship ended. My grandparents back in Georgia were getting sick. And my parents were getting older. All this told me it was time to move back home—and to start over, yet again. I now saw that the divide between “serious” work and art simply didn't exist. I’d tried so-called serious work all my life. Now it was time to do what I’d always wanted. For me, there was never any question but that I would go to SCAD Atlanta. I looked at other schools, of course. Weighed the pros and cons. But SCAD won, hands down. Coming to SCAD Atlanta meant giving up the life I’d built. But I’ve never regretted my decision. I’m a photographer, like I’ve always wanted to be. And that has lead me into writing, which has always been another love of mine. Thank you, Oprah, for sharing your wisdom with us at SCAD Atlanta. Thank you, Paula Wallace, for SCADl. 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When I first started studying photography seriously, I was following two paths of work that seemed completely separate: minimalist or deadpan photography, and nude male photography. “I take pictures of naked men and buildings,” I used to tell people. It was a joke, but I also felt like there was something serious there. Like a connection of some kind was missing. I ended up going in a different direction in my photography in part because I never found this connection. It was not until I saw A Real Imitation that I realized what this connection was. Kha photographs himself and others in various states of undress. Mixed in with these images are photographs of the interior and exterior of various homes and other locations. Through his work, he attempts to locate himself within the world around him. His photography is an exploration of his place in the world, specifically the U.S. South (he hails from Memphis, Tennessee). It hit me that this was what I was trying to accomplish. Kha looks at how race and sexuality impact his sense of belonging, his sense of place. And while I cannot speak to his experience of race, I do have my own experience of being a sexual outsider in the South. By photographing “naked men and buildings,” I was exploring my own sense of sexuality, place, and belonging as someone who grew up in Atlanta and the surrounding areas. In other words, what I thought was a joke—what I thought was a failing on my part—was actually a very serious and legitimate form of artistic inquiry and artistic expression. Someone, somewhere was working on a project similar to what I wanted to do. I just didn’t know it. Kha’s work taught me not to doubt myself. It taught me to take myself seriously. My work wasn’t a failure. It was simply not fully realized yet.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f7f9fd2994ca144a3ac140/1524356294091-XIJMW8A94KY37MHTX2FP/sally+mann.jpg Blog - Five Books and Movies that Got Me Where I Am Today Immediate Family by Sally Mann Sally Mann’s Immediate Family was the first photo book I ever picked up. I had seen some How-To photography books before. My dad briefly studied photography when I was a kid. And his work as a student was actually very much in the fine art genre. But he held onto the idea that fine art was not a valid career path. So he had always emphasized to me that photography could work as a career only if you were something like a portrait photographer. And because we lived in the rural South, a portrait photographer was someone who worked at a studio inside a Walmart or a Sears or a JC Penny—decidedly not what I was interested in doing. When I came across Mann’s work, I realized that photography could be art. Not only that, but it could be tremendously successful as art. Sadly, I would not make the connection to my own life until over a decade later, when I started studying photography at SCAD. But the seeds, at least, were planted.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f7f9fd2994ca144a3ac140/1524343996440-001OWXP1H0CLOXOJYO4J/search+for+spock.png Blog - Five Books and Movies that Got Me Where I Am Today Star Trek III: The Search for Spock I’m a big Star Trek fan. I love all of the original series movies. Most fans hold Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan or Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home are their favorite movies. I love both of those installments, as well. But here’s why I put The Search for Spock on my list. It is really a story of resurrection and resilience. It is a story of doing what is right, even when others don’t agree with you. In defiance of Starfleet’s orders, Kirk and crew steal the Enterprise in order to save the katra or, for lack of a better word, spirit of their fallen comrade Mr. Spock. When they meet resistance in the form of the determined Klingon Commander Kruge (played by Christopher Lloyd), Kirk destroys the Enterprise to save the day. Today, the poor U.S.S. Enterprise has been destroyed so many times that it’s comical. At the time of Star Trek III, though, this was the first time we had seen it happen. It was a huge deal. And I learned from it to do what’s right, even if it means going to extremes sometimes. If I had listened to everyone around me, I never would have gotten out of religious studies, never gotten out of psychology and come to the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Atlanta to study photography and writing like I’d always wanted to do. Those decisions to leave what had become my life were terrifying at the time. 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