Fotophase
When light and a camera become a language of healing, every image is a step toward wholeness.
Mission & Purpose
Photography-Based Neuroarts
Photography-based Neuroarts focuses on the act of making an
image, while including the appreciation of the final photograph. When attention, intention, and emotion converge behind the lens, photography becomes an embodied practice capable of supporting regulation, reflection, and connection.
What We Do
Educational Programs
Develop and deliver educational programs, experiential workshops, and community-based exhibitions that integrate photography with neuroscience and creative wellbeing.
The Marilyn Rice Scholarship
Provides access to photography and aesthetic experiences for people who have experienced illness or trauma
Research Partnerships
Build partnerships with educators, researchers, and healing professionals to explore how photography influences cognition, emotion, and perception.
Neuroarts Advocacy
Advocate for the recognition of photography as a vital, evidence-informed art form within the broader field of neuroarts.
The Marilyn Rice scholarship
Forty years after his mother’s passing, Jim began to rediscover her presence in the light through photography. The act of making images became his path toward healing. The Marilyn Rice Scholarship was created to honor her life and to extend that same light of hope to others. Conceived as a legacy initiative within Fotophase, the Scholarship provides access to photography education for people who have experienced illness or trauma, offering them, as photography once offered Jim, a way to see the world and themselves in a new light. The Marilyn Rice Scholarship underscores a core belief of Fotophase: how we see shapes how we experience our lives.
Our Origin Story
Why Fotophase?
Our organization’s name reflects the term “photophase,” defined as “a phase of light in the cycle of light and dark,” such as the span of time between sunrise and sunset. For those living with trauma, illness, or disconnection, life consists of not only periods of brightness and clarity, but at times darkness. Words and medications aren’t always enough, but aesthetic experiences can be magical.
Photography, which means to “write with light”, is an underrepresented modality in the neuroarts community. That’s why we’ve created Fotophase as a new center for educational programs, experiential workshops, exhibitions, and community events. We want participants to experience a fresh language of healing with light and camera, creating an opportunity for a giant step towards wholeness.
Our Origin Story
Exploring the Impact
3,000+
WHO-reviewed studies on arts & health
70%
People experience ≥1 traumatic event
3.9%
Global lifetime PTSD prevalence
67%
US children with ≥1 ACE
For Fotophase, this points to an important opportunity: to explore photography’s role within neuroarts.
Photography invites people to notice, frame, reflect, and share their lived experience. In doing so, it may offer an accessible aesthetic practice for strengthening self-awareness, meaning-making, social connection, and human flourishing.
Become a Member
Explore membership, sponsor an event, or make a donation.
Your support helps advance photography-backed neuroarts.
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