The Photographers: Marisa Burke, Mandi Cooper, Lucien Fischer, Alexandra Flamm, Ella Guarino, Samuel Guzman-Almonte, Emily Hammond, Margaret Krongard, Daniela Munoz, Isaac Offstein, Gina Slavin, Sylvia Sonenstein, Wilson Speller, Julia Walker. Editor: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock

Fordham University's VART 3500 Documentary Photography: Italy course has been successfully running in different configurations, both as part of a larger Rome program and independently, since the mid-90s, and it has consistently been a transformative experience for our students. The intensity of their commitment to their studies during their one month abroad, along with Italy's multifaceted culture, has always yielded mature and focused students with a profound understanding of their medium and motivations. The numerous books and exhibitions we have produced from students' Rome work over the years serve as a wonderful capstone to the course. Documentary Photography: Italy is an unparalleled experience for our students; it combines the excitement of new locations, a nuanced awareness of being a traveler and imagemaker arriving with varying backgrounds and viewpoints, studies about the complex makeup of Italian culture, and memorable community interactions for our scholar photographers with the solid support structure of Fordham professors, experts in cura personalis.