Holly Fasching ’26
Holly Fasching is an adventure photographer and exhibiting conservation artist with a deeply rooted love for the wilderness. She holds a B.A. in graphic design from Lehigh University (2026) and has been a freelance photographer for over 5 years and fills her time off with hiking, road tripping, and camping across the U.S. With a background in photojournalism and passion for storytelling, Holly has found multiple outlets to connect with her audience through the outdoors including solo photography exhibitions, Things That Fly (2024), and Fledge (2026), highlighting photographs of birds in the wild alongside the stories behind the photos; as well as the group exhibition, Greatest Works (2026). Exploring installation design, Holly is part of a partnered art installation at Lehigh University to be installed in the Fairchild Martindale Library in (December of 2026). In her last semester at Lehigh University in the fall of 2025, Holly produced Fifth Is First, a documentary film highlighting a community of cyclists and trail runners. She has also been recognized in the 2024 Audubon Photography Awards: The Top 100.
This image is the physical manifestation of this type specimen series. I wanted not only to explore how graphic design can be elevated to live art but also photograph the font targeting issues in the justice system to be highlighted on a public courthouse. This image was photographed in the evening outside of the Carbon County courthouse in Jim Thorpe, PA, using a projector and gas generator on the sidewalk.
The project prompt asked us to create a type specimen (catalog of a font), highlighting its uses and showcasing the letterforms in a printed booklet which we printed and bound ourselves. Redaction is designed by Forest Young and Jeremy Mickel to highlight how redaction methods have caused readability issues in legal documents often putting underrepresented communities at a disadvantage in the courtroom. The printed booklet highlights the injustice of the bail system in the United States and showcases people who have been arrested with high bail fines for numerous years without conviction, some who were proven to be innocent later. The document also highlights research on alternative methods to the bail system.
