Fotophase
Discover how the act of making photographs can influence how we see, understand, and experience our lives.
Mission & Purpose
Fotophase is dedicated the transformational nature of photography, exploring its potential to enhance health and well‐being.
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 with the potential to support 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. Our mission is to accelerate the role of photography – which means to “write with light” – in the emerging field of neuroarts for individual and collective well-being.
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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