Photographs and video from the Brooks Museum’s summer In Focus program are currently on view in the Education Gallery through Oct 23, 2011. Memphis artist Thomasin Durgin worked with 30 adolescents from Girls Incorporated, a non-profit organization with a mission to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. The focus of the program was portraiture through digital photography and included an introduction to stop-motion video. Adolescents typically struggle with issues of identity and control over their own lives. […]

Categories: Education, Film & Video, Music, People, Special Exhibitions • Tags: Composition, framing, Girls Inc., Girls Incorporated, In Focus, lighting, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, photography, Thomasin Durgin, Video