By Jon Dumais

Imogen Cain ‘12 and Jack Fedak IV ‘13 are two of Lafayette’s student photographers who will be representing Lafayette in the Lehigh Valley Photography Month. Both students submitted their photographs to be judged in the Invisionphotography contest and have won spots on the wall at the Banana Factory in Bethlehem, Penn. to display their work.

Fedak’s work was taken from “Fogo Island Experiences,” the product of his summer artist-in-residence program. The black and white collection was featured in the Williams Visual Arts Building as a result of a six-week, artist-residence-program consisting of Fedak and other artists exploring Fogo Island, of Newfoundland, Canada. “It’s really far east, and really kind of not very warm there in the winter,” Fedak said.

Before leaving for Fogo, Fedak completed two photography classes through Lafayette’s art department as well as a high school photography program. His professor at Lafayette, Karina Skvirsky, said, “I feel that I helped him by giving the tools that he needed before he left.”

Upon Fedak’s return, Skvirsky found that Fedak had developed many more photographic skills, both technically and conceptually.

Fedak’s photographs were organized into small groups to outline different aspects of life on Fogo Island. The collection explores the shrimping industry, the practices of a cod fisherman, icebergs and some of the wild life on the island, to name but a few of his photo subjects.

“What I was trying to experiment with was really getting into the photograph,” Fedak said. He was able to accomplish this both literally, by using a wide-angle lens to photograph in close proximity with his subjects, and figuratively, by reflecting culture of the island in his images.

Of the collection, one of Fedak’s shrimping photographs was accepted into the Invision photography contest.

Cain submitted five photos to the contest, which she created during her experience in the Digital Photography I and II classes at Lafayette. Her submissions included three portrait photos and two photos from a Laundromat in Easton, which she composed as part of a lighting project.

Invision is Cain’s first photography contest.

“I plan to pursue art in the future. I’m not sure exactly how yet, but I definitely want to have a job that is creative in some way,” Cain said. “I’m looking into advertising and graphic design, or maybe working somewhere like a magazine.”

Fedak and Cain’s work will be on display November 3 – 6.