Traditional and digital darkrooms, cutting-edge editing software, and visual literacy.
Majors > Photography
Bachelor in Photography + MBA
Photography Student Work
Program Description
4-Year Plan
JBU's photography program prepares students for photography work in a variety of industries.
Our three art buildings include two 3-story facilities featuring classrooms, a theater, two galleries, photo and cinema studios, MAC labs and a printmaking workshop. Also new is an "art barn" with additional large spaces for a state-of-the-art photo studio, drawing and painting classrooms, wood shop, ceramics studio and individual artist stations.
Every summer, JBU hosts art tours across Europe visiting an array of collections for student exposure, study, inspiration, and, best of all, college credit.
Choose your favorite work from the year and display it at JBU’s Annual Student Art Show, a highlight on the JBU academic calendar.
JBU’s art gallery, listed as the second best in NWA, hosts a myriad of professional artists and their work, providing students direct contact with professionals in their field.
Students learn the basic techniques of exposure, composition and formal aesthetics before moving onto more complex forms of visual literacy and artistic critique.
Every year, seniors display their best work for potential employers, like Hallmark, Walmart, Saatchi and Saatchi X, and Acumen Brands at the JBU Portfolio Show.
Assistant Professor of Visual Arts
Mr. Kyle Agee is the resident jack-of-all-trades. He began teaching at JBU in the Fall of 2011. While his main medium is photography, he has worked as a graphic designer, photojournalist, television editor, and offset printer to name a few.Mr. Agee’s work has centered on exploring and documenting architectural decay. This exploration has encompassed traditional black and white photography, wet plate collodion, digital photography, and alternative process printing techniques. His latest project, DrFrankenfilm.com, is a free photographic educational resource that aims to provide comprehensive instruction for anyone wishing to explore traditional analogue photographic mediums.Mr. Agee’s commercial clients have included the United States Air Force, the United States Navy Blue Angel Squadron, the United States Marine Corps, the Arkansas State Police, and the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, and the Outdoor Channel, among others.Mr. Agee enjoys spending his free time building guitar amplifiers and effect pedals, and working in his woodshop.
Department Head of Visual ArtsProfessor of Visual Arts
Mr. S. Neal Holland began his career at John Brown University in 1998 as the first full-time instructor in Digital Media Art.
Mr. Holland has been a champion of non-traditional programs and study-abroad partnerships, and he continues to head a series of programs to promote off-campus study. His work with the start-up Fields and Frames promotes that desire and helps photography students get international experience while encouraging the responsibility for Christians to engage with social justice issues.
Mr. Holland has worked for clients like Coca-Cola, Reebok, Nike and GM. He spends his free time fly-fishing and attempting to capture elusive images that might change the world.
Junior Andrew Albright and Sophomore Will Echols are starting Gordon’s portraits, a free portrait service aimed at preserving memories for low-income families in Siloam Springs and Eastern Oklahoma. The people this organization will help are the communities of Siloam Springs and Eastern Oklahoma. “We just wanted to give back and gain some experience,” Albright said. “Will and I both enjoy photography a lot, and we want to get better. We thought it’d be a good idea to give back to people.”
Fashion photographers are called upon to conceptualize and direct the photo shoots. Often these photographs are intended for publication and advertisement for specific designers and product lines.
Photographers illustrate a story or an idea within the context of a publication, particularly that of a magazine, newspaper, or online publication.
This type of photography captures a myriad of events (weddings, birthdays, baby showers, bar mitzvahs, wedding anniversaries, parties) and simple family or child photos for sentimental records.
Food photographers must be masters of light and technique in order to create appealing images of food for advertisements, brochures, menus, and the like.
Still life photographers focus on capturing inanimate objects such as scenery and architecture.
Photographers in this field are required to know how to use an infrared camera for the sake of evidence documentation.
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