Girls and Sharks by Alexis Jacobson

GIRL “OH…”

Painting of sun, sky, and flowers layered beneath magazine clippings of people swimming in a pool. On the bottom right is a magazine clipping of a shark with a dark purple thought bubble containing “Oh…” in yellow text. Above the shark is a magazine clipping of a motel sign stating “motel.”

group of women

Magazine page of eight naked women lying on a bed. Layered beneath are two magazine pages of skyscrapers and buildings. On the top center of the page is a sticker of a girl holding a yellow flower. To her right is a sticker of a couple in a hot air balloon. To the right is a sticker of a yellow flower with red lines painted around it. 

Alexis earned her BA in English writing with minors in Psychology and global studies from Montana State University, where she balanced her time between the Mountains and the classroom somewhat disproportionally. She transitioned into her Master’s of Journalism at the University of British Columbia in the fall of 2025 with hopes of uncovering the truth in long-form global, investigative, equal rights, and social movements coverage. During her undergraduate studies, Alexis developed her skills as a journalist, writer, and editor in various roles — from co-founding the digital literary magazine The Times NOU to reporting on the self-governing community of Christiania (Freetown) in Denmark as an ethnographer. Alexis writes for The Ubyssey and The Source as a contributing journalist and teaches writing and literature to Chinese students who have immigrated to Vancouver or are in the process of doing so. When she has time between deadlines, she loves reading and writing memoirs and micro essays.

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Three Photographs by Roger Camp

light Music 42

This photograph was modeled after Sir Issac Newton's discovery in 1665 that a light prism splits white light into red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. A second prism nearby is reflecting that phenomena on its lateral face (or side). This image led me to spend the next two years experimenting with prismatic light.

Light Music 8

The industrial prisms I was using were approximately1" x 4". In order to suspend them in space I used wire and you can see some magnification and refraction in the surfaces. The prismatic light in the background is projected off of a prism set on a tripod underneath a skylight in an otherwise dark room.

Light Music 34

At the suggestion of stained glass artist friend I purchased some pyrex glass rods which are used in laboratories to stir chemicals. I drilled holes in a two by four to hold the rods upright and used a white backdrop and projected the prismatic light through them onto the background. You can see that they reacted to the light very differently from the prisms in Light Music 8 & 42. The faint blue lines in the background is light reflected on the backdrop

Roger Camp is the author of three photography books including the award winning Butterflies in Flight, Thames & Hudson, 2002. His documentary photography has been awarded the Europe’s prestigious Leica Medal of Excellence and published in numerous journals including The New England Review, New York Quarterly, North American Review and Orion Magazine. His archives are held by the University of California, Santa Barbara, Library, Special Research Collections.