2022 Virtual Exposed
Student Showcase
Photo2750 Student Portfolios
Spring 2022 Capstone Portfolios for Photography Program Students
María Alarcón R
My name is María Alarcón, I am a foodie and food photographer. Through careful use of lighting and complete attention to details, I take my photographs beyond pure representation. This allows me to share with people the amazing experience of being in the gastronomic world. Creating images that you can taste and smell is my specialty. Indeed, if you were not hungry before seeing my work, you will probably crave something after.
Ben Dierking
Photography can be fun. Photography can be wild. Hi. My name is Ben Dierking and I am a wildlife photographer. I like shooting animals… with a digital camera! Squirrels? Ducks? Birds? Deer? I’ve photographed them all and much more! I like spending time out in nature photographing the wild side of anything outdoors and you should check out my work! That’s Ben Dierking, spelled D-I-E-R-K-I-N-G.
Alex Easler
There’s a certain hum that comes from an amplifier waiting to receive its instrument for the evening. There’s an electrical static that crackles and interrupts that hum as an instrument is plugged into place. That soft hum is now ready to be transformed and shaped into a powerful creation dictated by the warrior musician and his electrified weapon.
Chris Howes
I am a Chicagoland photographer who worked in the imaginative arts, specifically writing and editing, before making a career move to photography. I believe that, thanks to current technology, the word “can’t” doesn’t belong in a discussion of photography. I find it rewarding to find new ways to use in-camera and post-processing skills to combine photographs — a technique called compositing — to produce whatever images can be conceived.
Jigna Maniar
Hi, My name is Jigna Maniar. I am a Portrait, Commercial and Editorial Fashion photographer in Chicago. I take images in dramatic, high contrast, bold lighting complementing with beautiful expression and poses.
Eugenia Petropulos
As a young girl, and now woman, living in suburban Chicago, I always saw myself as part of one big visual production. Movies, music videos, tv shows, you name it. Any motion picture that was created to tell a story or complement an abstract concept really inspired me. So much that at one point, my parents were nervous to let me watch certain movies for fear that I would completely embody a fictional character and lose all sense of self and the environment surrounding me.
Joseph Polito
My work is made because I find it emotionally rewarding to work with people in making portraits of
the personal kind and the more editorial kind. My approach is about working with people in expressing
something about them (personal) or about what they do (editorial), and to guide them to be expressive to
create emotion like actors.
Emma Santarelli
I consider myself to be a fine art photographer who is currently attending the College of DuPage studying photography. To me what I find interesting the most is the world around us and how we interact with it. Particularly, this means that I enjoy photographing the world and every aspect of it- the outdoors. This could be nature, the city, or where I grew up and am used to the most, the suburbs. I love going to each of these environments and seeing how humans have impacted each of them, some more than others, and documenting it with my camera.
Diego Torres
Chicago is a gold mine for photos like that you can take pictures of landmarks architecture and neon signs but the things that I love taking pictures are the dirty side. When people see my work for this project I want people to understand that I don’t hate Chicago because I think its dirty or that is a negative look at the city because it’s not I think what I’m capturing is the city’s character and city’s grit.
Jacob Weber
Some of my photographs are very simplistic and I intend for this series of photos to enhance emotions and create a different perspective on the traditional editorial style portrait. Using a mixture of natural lighting, colored lights, and a linear prism filter, helped me create these portraits.