Eco Lens on Costa Rica
Sociology and Photography
with a case study on Costa Rica
Cell 207.890.8607
Email Robert.Rainey@maine.edu
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ABOUT THE COURSE FACULTY
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Lorien Lake-Corral is an Associate Professor of Sociology and is the Coordinator of the Social Science Program. She earned a B.A. from SUNY Geneseo in Sociology and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona (also in Sociology). Dr. Lake-Corral’s primary interests are in teaching and learning in sociology and her research interests include culture, deviance, and symbolic interaction. Her current research explores the content of introductory textbooks in sociology and the implications for scholarly research. Dr. Lake-Corral has taught dozens of sociology and social science courses over the past nine years at the University of Maine at Augusta, and enjoys contributing the UMA community.
Robert Rainey is the Associate Professor of Photography at the University of Maine at Augusta. Rainey has lead over a 160 UMA students and faculty over the past nine years to such destinations as Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala and most recently the Yucatan.
In 1986 he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. In 2002., Rainey left a seventeen-year career in the corporate world of marketing and entertainment, where from 1993 to 1998 he worked as Executive Vice President of Creative Advertising at Miramax Films, directing marketing campaigns for movies such as Basquiat, Pulp Fiction, The English Patient and Good Will Hunting. He now pursues a career as an artist, working on conceptual portrait projects. In 2004 Rainey was an adjunct professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, focusing on photography, film and electronic arts.
Rainey's photographs are intended to subvert conventional implications of identity. His portraits become a means for critically commenting on issues relevant to contemporary life. Rainey's work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions including Raised by Wolves, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (2007); TwoWay, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois (2005); Relative: Photographing Domesticity, ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, Georga (2004); and the Southeastern Juried Exhibition, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama (2004).
Education
B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, 1986
5th year program, Otis School of Design, 2003
M.F.A., University of New Mexico, 2008