EMILY PASSINO
A Nashville photographer, soaking up inspiration from generous photographers in this community and around the world.
Broadly, my current projects might be termed “social landscapes.” Like classic street photography, these are unstaged, candid images that capture seemingly ordinary scenes. This approach to photography offers a way to reveal the nature of contemporary culture and how it may or may not differ across time, place or experience. As a bonus, this practice also helps ground me in the here and now.
Growing up in the 1960’s, I learned about photography from my dad, who was generous with his darkroom as well as with passing along his wisdom. Active with the photography salon Close to Home, with The Blue Hour, a collaboration with two other photographers, with the Society of Nashville Artistic Photographers, and various other local photography groups, I continue to take classes and workshops, to seek out museums and galleries, to experiment with different approaches, and to learn as much as I can.
education:
Ph.D, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Ph.D, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Photography classes/workshops: Michael Rubin, Photographic Haiku (2022); Douglas Beasley, Photography as a Path to Spirit (2022), and Zen and the Art of Photography (2021); David duChemin, Beyond the Shutter (2022), James Maher & Matt Weber, NYC Street Photography (2019); PhotoVoices, London, Participatory Photography (2018); Byron Jorjorian, Big South Fork, Off the Beaten Path (2017); Nashville State Community College, (2017-2020); Watkins Institute, printing with Rich Seiling (2019).
group exhibitions:
2022 Open Theme, Gordon JCC Gallery, Nashville, TN
Beyond the Familiar, Laskey Gallery, Nashville, TN & Hotel Preston Gallery, Nashville, TN
2021 2020: The Year That Was, Chromatics 2nd Floor Gallery, Nashville, TN
Contemporary Photographers Look at the South, Hotel Preston Gallery, Nashville, TN
Art of Healing, Art from W.H.O. to Act for Health, Curb Center, Nashville, TN (through 2022)
Open Theme, Gordon JCC Gallery, Nashville, TN
2020 Nashville Now, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
Portals & Passageways, Scarritt Bennet Gallery, Nashville, TN
Open Theme, Gordon JCC Gallery, Nashville, TN
2019 Connect/Disconnect, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN
Sense of Connections: Finding Our Commonality, Hotel Preston Gallery, Nashville, TN
The Photograph Celebrated, Nashville State Community College Gallery H, Nashville, TN
TrueNash: Nashville Streets, Lexus Gallery, Nashville, TN
2018 Motion/Movement, Lexus Gallery, Nashville, TN
Elements – Earth, Air, Wind and Fire, Chromatics 2nd Floor Gallery, Nashville, TN
Sense of Place, Hotel Preston Gallery, Nashville, TN
World of Dreamers, Chromatics 2nd Floor Gallery, Nashville, TN
2017 Night, Provence Bakery, Nashville, TN
Work, Provence Bakery, Nashville, TN
Perspectives, Gordon JCC, Nashville, TN
Nasty Women, Basement East Gallery|Luperca. Nashville, TN
2016 Open Theme, Gordon JCC, Nashville, TN
Patterns, Provence Bakery, Nashville, TN
Street Photography, Provence Bakery, Nashville, TN
in print:
SHOTS Magazine, Spring 2022, Issue no. 155, ‘Portfolio|Collaborations’, featured as part of ‘The Blue Hour,’ a photography collaboration with 2 other photographers
SHOTS Magazine, Winter 2022, Issue no. 154, 'Earthly Delights'
Contributor, LOT, 'The Parking Lot & Gas Station Issue,' Winter 021, Close to Home Photography Magazine, Issue #1
Contributor, 'Sappho Versioning Sappho', Sarah Passino, 2020, Stereoverseeditions, Brooklyn, NY.
'Connect/Disconnect: Growth in the “It” City,' Shaun Giles, ed., Frist Art Museum and Vanderbilt University Press, 2019. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, March 22-August 4, 2019, at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN.
Contributor, TENNESSEE BLUE BOOK, 2019-2020, Secretary of State, State of Tennessee
random presentations:
"Building a Personal Photo Project," - Presentation to the St. Albert Photo Club, Alberta, Canada, October, 2022.
"Who Do We Think We Are?" - Guided reflections with an adult class responding to photographs that explore questions around earth and spirituality, April (earth day), 2021.
key group memberships and collaborations:
Society of Nashville Artistic Photographers (2012 to present - past president)
Close to Home International Salon (2020 to present – small group moderator)
The Blue Hour Photo Collaborative (2021 to present - co-founder with Vin Sharma and Lisa Jayce)