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Quite simply, RISD changed my life. | entered the graduate program in photography in the fall of 1972, a woman in my thirties, a single parent, struggling emotionally and financially to support myself and my son. | had recently discovered the camera and had begun a lifelong love affair with photography. My passion was as extreme as my experience was limited. I had glimpsed that the camera could be my tool for personal expression. I had to find out if it could also be the means of my livelihood. I had to find out if I had the necessary talent to justify the commitment. I took risks and loans and gave myself the gift of time to explore my resources. RISD was the catalyst that allowed me to begin my profession. I was also one of the lucky ones, who sat under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind as they helped each of us to find our own voice and establish our own independent and unique vision. Years pass quickly, and the professional and personal activi- ties that form the puzzles of our lives are added, subtracted, multiplied and divided. As part of my puzzle, I have contin- ued to return to RISD, sometimes just to visit and sometimes to participate in such events as Career Day or this Portfolio. Each walk down Benefit Street evokes the sweet nostalgia I reserve for my life’s most special places. But more important, is the excitement I always feel as I am challenged and stimulated by RISD’s changing complexion of faculty and students. During my two years as a student at RISD, I was commuting from Boston’s North Shore and had a small child waiting for me each time I was away. My time in Providence was always too short and necessarily focused on my photography classes. | often wished I could spend time learning to weave or blow glass or make sculpture. Thus, in making these pic- tures I gave myself another gift: the time to go to the studios of each discipline, the privilege of observing work evolve into art, the satisfaction of asking a myriad of questions and the pleasure of gathering the bits and pieces that are the threads of the RISD tapestry. These pictures, as a whole, are my homage to RISD’s parts. Starr Ockenga Stylist: Eileen Doolittle Lighting: Joe Sloane Assistant: John Westgate
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