Photography Masters Theses

 

Graduate students in the Photography program develop visual and critical expertise through course work, seminars, independent studio work and critiques designed to provide a deep understanding of contemporary art practices and criticism. Working in personal studios, students have access to state-of-the-art technical facilities that allow for the exploration of film-based and digital photography, digital video and multimedia production.

In the final semester, MFA candidates focus on creating a comprehensive body of work under the guidance of a thesis committee. All Photography graduate students produce a thesis book that includes a written narrative and a body of visual work. They also participate in the RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition, a large-scale public show held annually.

Graduate Program Director: Brian Ulrich

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Theses from 2024

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I am becoming., Dai Asano

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Intangible shells, Elena Bulet

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Winter Solstice, Jingwen Cao

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The Day the Door Flew Open, Clara Delgado

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Embodied Abstractions: Identity and Representation in the Digital Era, Srikar Hari

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America, Dreaming., Sarah Meftah

Theses from 2023

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Mistranslated, Hee Young Cha

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In a Condition of No Light, Alana Perino

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Coast to Coast, Zeyuan Ren

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Garden Etiquette, Kai Wasikowski

Theses from 2022

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Rememory, Jonathan Mark Jackson

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The great delusion, Beth Johnston

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Mason & Dixon: History and Identity in the Borderlands, Drew Leventhal

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Bewildering narrative, Ali Newhard

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Dead Letter Room, Allie Tsubota

Theses from 2021

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Imaging "Interracial": performing racialized desire in "interracial" heterosexual hardcore pornography, Megan Christiansen

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Becoming a precipice: the liminality of queer cruising, Chance DeVille

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Wounds need air, Camilla Jerome

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Martyr (in exile), Xinyi Mei

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I just can't get you out of my head : frenetic vortex, animal as image - field notes (1989-2021), Steffanie A. Padilla

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Fossil morphology, Leah Zhang

Theses from 2020

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The knots on the underside of the carpet, Lily Colman

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Amor fati, Keavy Handley-Byrne

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First sweet truth, Jessina Lynn Leonard

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These inadvertent marks, Thomas Wilder

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Make yourself at home, Han Seok You

Theses from 2018

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Between gods and animals : deconstructing heteronormative masculines pursuit to sustain power, Shawn Bush

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Pretend power, Rosemary Engstrom

Theses from 2017

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Naturally occurring form, Margaret Kristensen

Theses from 2016

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Once there was there wasn't, Svetlana Bailey

Theses from 2015

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Mid-, Elise Kirk

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The Void, The Mystery, The Vast Array, The Infinity of Unities, The Otherworld, The Absolute, The Hidden Order, The Randomness, The Infraworld, The Nothing, The Zone of Immaterial Sensibility, The Silence, The Hollow of Space, The Ineffable, The Emptiness, The Wild, Drew Ludwig

Theses from 2011

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Seven Seas Without, Ambereen Siddiqui