2012 Mentoring Program
- Public exhibition in New York City
- Online gallery of Hometown photo essays
- Read our summary review of this year’s program
- UK Mentoring Programme
17 teams, 70 mentees, 32 mentors
In 2012, YPA organized mentoring for 17 teams around the world: US, Canada, England, Scotland, and Thailand. In all 70 college photography students received coaching from 32 professionals, photographers and photo editors, over the course of the summer. The theme this year was Hometown, which resulted in a deeply personal collection of photo essays.
The theme: Hometown
“Hometown” refers to the location where you grew up, the place to which you feel the most connected, or that becomes your principal residence over time.
Ideas around what a hometown can be are complex and layered. Bruce Springsteen’s song “My Hometown” – relates the story of the speaker’s memories of his father instilling pride in the family’s hometown. The song sounds like it will be a typically nostalgic look at the speaker’s childhood, but then goes on to describe the racial violence and economic depression that he witnessed living there. The song concludes with the speaker’s reluctant proclamation that he plans to move his own family out of the town.
Artist Norman Rockwell exemplifies the stereotypical ideal of the hometown. His paintings of local residents in Stockbridge, Massachusetts have become American icons. On the flip side, the photographer Diane Arbus documented the deviant and marginal people she met in New York. More recently the work of Vivian Maier – a street photographer working from the 1950s through the 1990s – was discovered at an auction in Chicago, where she resided much of her life. In her off hours from being a nanny, Meier would comb the streets of the city taking photographs. Her work includes over 100,000 negatives, prints, and countless undeveloped rolls of film that brilliantly document her adopted “hometown” of Chicago.
2012 Teams
| Austin, TX, United States, led by Eli Reed & Lance Rosenfield | |
|---|---|
| Sakin Hill | |
| Spencer Selvidge | University of Texas |
| Spencer Selvidge | University of Texas |
| Madison Somerville | University of Texas |
| Mariah Tyler | University of North Texas |
| Chicago, IL, United States, led by Paul Audia & Brian Beaugureau | |
| Rashayla Brown | School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
| Shelby Fry | Iowa State University |
| Brett Layne | School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
| Courtney Penzato | College of DuPage |
| Los Angeles, CA, United States, led by Ed Carreon & David Yamamoto | |
| Anna Chang | Glendale Community College |
| Brittany Del Soldato | University of California Irvine |
| Jeremy Jackson | Art Center College of Design |
| Carrie Jesenovec | Santa Monica College |
| Grace Lee | University of Southern California |
| Miami, FL, United States, led by Aaron Ansarov | |
| Meghan Salom | Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale |
| Scott Schmidt | United States Marine Corps |
| Jon Wes/Bollback | University of Central Florida |
| Amy Yeatts | |
| New Orleans, LA, United States, led by Daymon Gardner & Jennifer Shaw | |
| Zachary Breaux | LSU |
| Nika Carter | Southern University at New Orleans |
| Amanda Torres | Southeastern Louisiana University |
| Donna Viering | Art Institute of Austin |
| Annie Wentzell | Memphis College of Art |
| New York, NY, United States, led by Liz Arenberg & Robert Hooman & Michael Weschler | |
| Sivan Askayo | ICP |
| Samantha Cohn | SVA |
| Alexandra Diracles | New York University |
| John Dunn | Miami University |
| Aurelie Graillot | |
| Eric Kruszewski | |
| Erica Mandel | SUNY Purchase |
| Caitie McCabe | SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology |
| Portland, ME, United States, led by Peter Dennen & Shoshannah White | |
| Tessa Jeffers | University of Southern Maine |
| Stephanie Kaznocha | |
| Jamie Mercurio | |
| Portland, OR, United States, led by Joel Preston Smith | |
| Jennifer Hardin | The Art Institute of Portland |
| Jessica LeDuc-Sasaki | |
| Teresa Meier | Academy of Art University |
| San Francisco, CA, United States, led by Robert Houser & Richard Morgentstein | |
| Isabel Gonzales | Academy of Art University |
| Jordana Hall | Corcoran College of Art & Design |
| Paula Morales | Academy of Art University |
| Seattle, WA, United States, led by Stewart Tilger | |
| Candace Doyal | SCCA |
| Tessa Leachman | University of Washington |
| Joana Stillwell | University of Washington |
| Kat Wertzler | University of Washington |
| Ottawa, Canada, led by Michael Tardioli & Patricia Vargas | |
| Josh Hotz | School of Photographic Art: Ottawa |
| Olivia Johnston | School of Photographic Art: Ottawa |
| Michael Marquette | School of Photographic Art: Ottawa |
| Jessie Park-Wheeler | School of Photographic Art: Ottawa |
| Toronto, Canada, led by Erin Riley & Veronika Roux-Vlachova | |
| Ian Bethune | York University |
| Danya Ensing | OCAD University |
| Laura Nowak | OCAD University |
| Janice Power | OCAD University |
| Jeff Rogers | University of Toronto |
| Bangkok, Thailand, led by Dennie Cody & Duangkamon Khattiya | |
| Sarun Deeruksa | Bangkok University |
| Manochow Jintaworn | Bangkok University |
| Ubonpayom Ongsara | Rajabhat Suansunandha University |
| Isoon Prangsuwan | Rajamangala University of Technology |
| Panupan Sansernsirikul | Bangkok University |
| Bristol, United Kingdom, led by Daniel Bosworth & Debbie Ireland & Jasmine Teer | |
| Hayley Brown | |
| Lynsey Colyer | |
| Simon Goldstein | |
| Mark Salmon | |
| George Scane | |
| Glasgow, United Kingdom, led by Elaine Livingstone & Claire Stuart & Brian Sweeney | |
| Shona Cameron | |
| Sarah Amy Fishlock | |
| Ashley Good | |
| Alan Knox | |
| Emily MacInnes | |
| Gabriela Silveira | |
| London (commercial), United Kingdom, led by Sophie Chapman-Andrews & Liz Helman | |
| Joel Biddle | |
| Emma Brown | |
| Charley Murrell | |
| Florence Nightclark | |
| Helen Thompson | |
| Gianandrea Traina | |
| London (editorial), United Kingdom, led by Sophie Batterbury & Justin Sutcliffe | |
| Souvid Datta | |
| Alessandro Falco | |
| Lucinda Grange | |
| Camilla Greenwell | |
| Elena Heatherwick | |
| Iwona Karbowska | |
The UK teams are also listed on the YPA UK site.
YPA is grateful to New Orleans Photo Alliance for donating space for the New Orleans team meetings, to Newspace Center for donating space and facilities for the Portland, Oregon team meetings, and to the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa for donating space for the Ottawa team meetings.
