![A graduate waves to friends in the audience during the Indiana University Bloomington Undergraduate Commencement at Memorial Stadium on Saturday, May 4, 2019. (James Brosher/Indiana University)](https://www.brosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/20190504_IUBCommencement_JB_0897.jpg)
![A variety of decorated mortarboards are pictured during the Indiana University South Bend Commencement at the University of Notre Dame on Tuesday, May 7, 2019. (James Brosher/Indiana University)](https://www.brosher.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/20190507_IUSBCommencement_JB_0314.jpg)
Last fall I was tasked with capturing images for a new website for The Media School at Indiana University. The school encompasses several disciplines including everything from journalism to video game design. I was asked to shoot in a photojournalistic style since photojournalism is one of the areas of study within the school. (I’m an alumnus of the IU School of Journalism, the precursor to The Media School.) Stylistically for me, this often meant shooting with prime lenses with very shallow depths of field in ambient light. It was a fun project and a unique challenge to capture representative images of the school’s various units.
Game development students at Indiana University gathered last month for the GameDev@IU fall semester kickoff jam. During the event, students with varying skillsets form teams and create functional video games within three hours.
Here are a few images from a recent fashion-esque photo shoot at IUPUI. My task was to show new apparel available at the school’s bookstore. I don’t fancy myself as much of a fashion photographer, but I tried to treat this shoot as a miniature version of a fashion shoot. Armed with a couple of Profoto B1s, I shot all the models – student employees at the bookstore – within about a 50-yard radius of the store at the IUPUI Campus Center.
After May, things tend to slow down considerably on campus and this year has been no exception. I’ve had fewer big shoots and more small, one-off assignments. Here are a few favorites from a mix of interesting shoots so far this summer: