Interview with Ross Sawyers
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Description
Ross Sawyers is a professional photographer and educator. He was born in Beaumont Texas and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He earned a BFA in Photography and New Media at the Kansas City Art Institute and a MFA in Interdisciplinary Visual Art at the University of Washington and has taught at the University of California and at the University of Washington. In 2009, he came to Columbia College Chicago serving as an associate professor in photography at Columbia College Chicago and became interim chair of the department in 2019. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and is found within numerous public and private collections. As to his philosophy as an education, he states "the most important thing is that a student leaves us with an ability to communicate what they want to communicate through their photographs.” Length: 79:11, Transcript: 27 pages.
Publication Date
Fall 2024
Publisher
Columbia College Chicago
City
Chicago
Keywords
photography, digital photography, creativity, Illinois, Chicago
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Communication | History | Photography | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Recommended Citation
Perez, Esai, "Interview with Ross Sawyers" (2024). Photography at Columbia College Chicago, 2024-2025. 4.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/photo_oh/4
Comments
The Photography at Columbia College Chicago oral history project documents the program taught here from the perspective of faculty and alumni. Conducted as part of a larger Columbia College Chicago oral history project focused on capturing oral histories from people who shaped the modern Columbia, these interviews offer personal narrative insights into the evolution and history of the college photography program. Students in the Oral History: The Art of the Interview class taught by Dr. Erin McCarthy, conducted the interviews.