Photography and Film

Presented in two rounds, Capstone exhibitions represented the accomplishments of the 2026 senior class from each area. 

Photo Senior, Aija Bowditch, was selected to feature her work, Bonfire, in the 2025 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition

Photo Senior, Taylor Freeman, had her Senior Thesis 1, Cereal, be featured at the 2025 VCUarts Undergraduate Juried Exhibition

Photo Senior Adele Luck's work titled "Cosplayers" explores what she calls the “internet state of mind” by showing the evolution of online subcultures and their influence on contemporary American culture. By photographing these cosplayers and in-person meetups, she aims to showcase virtual identities and cultures that interact and manifest within the physical.

George eats a lot of eggs. 

In the wake of a forgotten 20th-century genocide, Shadows of the Past explores the fragments of memory, identity, and resistance left behind by the Herero and Nama peoples after German colonial forces carried out one of history’s earliest acts of racial extermination. Weaving together personal testimony, archival imagery, and experimental forms such as dance and collage, the film meditates on generational trauma and the struggle to be heard. As debates over Germany’s recent reparations deal expose deep political and emotional rifts, Shadows of the Past asks what it means to seek justice when history has tried to erase you.

As I reflected on our senior year together and the time we spent creating alongside each other, it struck me how lucky we were to have wound up here together, in this space and time. To share our backgrounds and learn from one another. Thus, the title To Think We Were Ever Apart was born.