Katherine Akey is an artist based in San Francisco, CA. Her work addresses adventure, conflict, and the negative space in personal and collective memory with a focus on polar exploration and the First World War. Her practice includes photography, printmaking, sound, video, fiber arts, and creative writing. She has an MFA from the International Center of Photography, was a Fellow with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and was the Visiting Assistant Professor in Studio Arts at Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at GWU from 2018-2020. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she has participated in several artist residencies including The Arctic Circle, Bonfire Walk&Talk, and the Artist Residency in Motherhood.
Israel Ariño (Barcelona, 1974) is a photographer and publisher whose work can be found in numerous private and public collections. He is represented by Galerie VU (Paris), Box Galerie (Brussels), Tosei Gallery (Tokyo) and Espace JB (Geneva). He is the author of six monographs: Atlas (2012), Terra incognita (2013), Le nom qui efface la couleur (2014), The gravity of place (2017), Le partage des eaux (2017) and Voyage en pays du Clermontois (2019).
Geoffrey Berliner is the co-founder and the Executive Director of the Penumbra Foundation. Geoffrey is a native New Yorker who was introduced to photography at an early age by his father, who was an artist, photographer and a public school teacher in New York City. His grandfather graduated from Cooper Union and went on to work for the New York Times as a photographer and photo retoucher. After receiving his Masters degree in religion from Harvard University, Geoffrey left academia to start his own business. After several years, the call of photography and especially large format and alternative photographic processes urged greater involvement in these practices.
Barbara Bosworth is a photographer whose large-format images explore both overt and subtle relationships between humans and the rest of the natural world. Whether chronicling the efforts of hunters or bird banders or evoking the seasonal changes that transform mountains and meadows, Bosworth’s caring attention to the world around her results in images that similarly inspire viewers to look closely. Her work has been widely exhibited, notably in recent retrospectives at the Denver Art Museum in Colorado, Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona. Her publications include, The Sea (Radius Books, 2022), The Heavens (Radius Books, 2018), The Meadow (Radius Books, 2015), Natural Histories (Radius Books, 2013), Trees: National Champions (MIT Press; Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 2005).
Melitte Buchman has been an active practitioner of both salt printing and making tintypes for over a decade. As a professional photographer, she is also knowledgeable about digital technology and creating appropriate digitally made negatives for alternative photography practices.
Brian Buckley’s experimental photography practice is an effort to reinterpret photography’s earliest techniques, particularly the cyanotype and the camera-less methods of the photogram. Often sourcing from his own experiences with love and loss, his photograms reflect on universal ideas of love and beauty and our longing for them. Believing that in order for any photographic technique to work, it should be personalized and transfigured into a greater metaphor. As an artist, he wished to prompt viewers of his work to think about their own similar experiences and to identify how it might serve as a tool for productive change.
Rachelle Bussières (Quebec City, Canada) received her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2015. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Addressing the impact of light on our psyche, environment and social structure, Rachelle Bussières’ work is at the intersection of photography and sculpture, moving through a collision of materials and documents through the lumen photographic process. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Melanie Flood Projects (Portland, USA), Penumbra Foundation (NYC, USA), Johansson Projects (Oakland, USA) and Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco, USA). Awards include the Penumbra Foundation Workspace Fellowship, Canada Council for the Arts (Research and Creation), an honorable mention for the Snider Prize from the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and being a Finalist for the Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize. Some recent group shows include the World Trade Center (NYC), San Francisco State University, Rubber Factory (NYC), Seattle Pacific University (Seattle, WA), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn), Soil Gallery (Seattle, WA), the General French Consulate (San Francisco, CA), the Wing (San Francisco, CA), the Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO), Minnesota Street Project (San Francisco, CA), Galerie l’Inlassable (Paris, FR), Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA) and Present Company (Brooklyn, NY). She was an artist-in-residence at Silver Art Projects, Penumbra Foundation, Banff Center, Sim, Vermont Studio Center and Headlands Center for the Arts. Her work is present in various public, corporate and private collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Four Seasons Hotel, SFMOMA Library and Archives, Facebook (commission mural) in Sunnyvale, Instagram Inc. in San Francisco and Penumbra Foundation in New York City.
Lesly Deschler Canossi is a photographer, photography educator, and cultural producer. She holds an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she focused on the museological object's role in the construction of culture. She is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography. She has taught at Columbia University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Lamar Dodd School of Art in Cortona, Italy. In 2016, she and Zoraida Lopez-Diago co-created Women Picturing Revolution (WPR), an organization dedicated to female photographers who have documented conflicts, crises and revolution in private realms and public spaces. WPR presented for Fast Forward: Women in Photography at the Tate Modern on the topic of their forthcoming book Representations of Black Motherhood and Photography, Leuven University Press: Fall, 2021. Deschler Canossi recently created the panel, Urgent Pictures! Photographs of Unrest Reconsidered in Isolation, for the photography festival, Focus on the Story. Her ongoing personal photographic project Domestic Negotiations (2012 - present), is an exploration of autonomy, partnership, and the role of mother as artist. She currently works as an independent cultural producer, visualizing concepts, lecturing, leading seminars, and curating panels for educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and corporate clients.
Ellen Carey (b. 1952, USA), a Pictures Generation contemporary and member of Buffalo’s avant-garde with Cindy Sherman and Robert Longo, upends the medium's collective histories in lens-based art, photography, and technology with her abstract, minimal “picture” signs. An educator, independent scholar, guest curator, photographer, and lens-based artist, her unique experimental work (1974-2021) spans several decades highlighted by 70 one-person exhibitions, several hundred group exhibits (1974-2022), and essays published under either Pictus & Writ (2008-2021) or in tandem with multiple books, exhibition catalogs, lectures, interviews, reviews, and grants. She emphasizes photography’s indexical drawing with light and light with color. Her innovative, technical knowledge and burgeoning imagination dare viewers to engage with the arc of time beginning with the earliest memory of light and shadow up to the present of momentary rainbows. Her performative record is a visual all or nothing, her ‘zero’. Her photographs no longer represent object subject relations but rather the twin interplay of light and shadow, stark in black and white minimalism and freeing color itself into a kaleidoscope of abstraction. Well developed in the 20th century — Abstract Expressionism, Minimal, Conceptual Art — Carey’s photographic pictures of nothing up end the medium's collective histories by asking us: “What is photography?” or “Is it a photograph”?
Tim Carpenter (Illinois, 1968) is a photographer and writer who works in Brooklyn and central Illinois. He is the author of several photobooks, among them Christmas Day, Bucks Pond Road (The Ice Plant); Local objects (The Ice Plant); township (collaboration with Raymond Meeks, Adrianna Ault, and Brad Zellar; TIS/dumbsaint); Bement grain (TIS/dumbsaint); Still feel gone (collaboration with Nathan Pearce; Deadbeat Club Press); Illinois Central (Kris Graves Projects); The king of the birds (TIS books); and A house and a tree (TIS books). Local objects was included in the 2018 exhibition “American Surfaces and the Photobook” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and was listed for the Kassel Photobook Award 2018. Tim received an MFA in Photography from the Hartford Art School in 2012, and in 2015 co-founded TIS books, an independent photobook publisher.
Edd Carr is an experimental artist from North Yorkshire, UK, working primarily with moving image and alternative processes to explore our anxieties around the ecological crisis and the mass extinction of life. He manipulates his own experiences to understand wider societal trauma surrounding the climate crisis - particularly within his own generation. Edd’s moving image work has been exhibited worldwide, including Holland, Australia, Germany, and the UK. He has won multiple awards for his sustainable animation techniques, including most recently the Channel 4 Random Acts Award. He also hand-printed the first cyanotype music video for Tycho Jones, which has been nominated for the UK Music Video Awards, alongside videos from artists including Liam Gallagher, Disclosure, Dua Lipa, and Little Mix. Edd has also had his undergraduate and postgraduate theses published by their respective universities, and has given public talks on each subject - both concerning sustainability in art. Having recently completed an MA at the Royal College of Art, he currently receives funding from East Street Arts to continue his work on sustainable photography.
J Carrier (b. Biloxi, Mississippi) after spending nearly a decade living and working in Africa and the Middle East, a five-year stint in Brooklyn, a return to Jerusalem in 2018, and back to Washington DC where he grew up, he now lives in central Vermont with his wife and kids. J has a BS in wildlife & fisheries science and forestry from the Pennsylvania State University (1996) and an MFA from the Hartford Art School (2012). J is an assistant professor at George Mason University. He formerly taught at Cornell University, the International Center of Photography (NYC), and Western Connecticut State. J's commissioned work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Time, Fortune, CNN, Newsweek, Men's Journal, XXL, Dazed and Confused, Le Monde, and the Financial Times garnering many awards (NY photo awards, AI+AP, Center). He was nominated for PDN30 (2016), the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship (2013 & 2012), and the Santa Fe prize for Photography (2011). His first monograph, Elementary Calculus, was published by MACK in September, 2012, and selected for numerous year end "best of" lists and was also included in the 2013 International Center of Photography Triennial. He has also published three books with TIS - untitled 1 (Vermont, 2014), untitled 2 (Vermont, 2016) - and most recently, The Folly (2021). Work from J’s recent projects, mi´raj & in circles is currently in design & production and will be published in the coming year.
Nelson Chan was born in New Jersey to immigrant parents from Hong Kong and Taiwan and has spent most of his life between the States and Hong Kong. Having grown up on two continents with unique cultures, this immigrant experience has influenced the majority of his work. Nelson is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where he received his BFA and a graduate of the University of Hartford, Hartford Art School, where he received his MFA. He has been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions such as the Museum of Chinese in America, New York, NY; Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA; Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany; and 798 Space, Beijing, China. His books are collected in the institutional libraries of the Harry Ransom Center, The MET, The Whitney, and MoMA. Book publishing is a primary focus of Nelson’s studio practice. He is a co-founder of TIS books, where they have published titles by Justine Kurland, John Gossage and Raymond Meeks. From 2016-19 he was the Production Manager of Aperture Foundation, where he made monographs with artists such as Deana Lawson, Hank Willis Thomas, Stephen Shore and Sally Mann, among others. Nelson is based in the Bay Area where he is an Assistant Professor of Photography at the California College of the Arts.
Lois Conner is known for her large-scale panoramic photographs. She has received numerous grants, exhibits widely, and her work is featured in many esteemed publications. Recently, Conner received the Pollock-Krasner Award for Artists (2020) and the Rosenkranz Fellowship for Photography (2019). She was awarded the Anonymous Was a Woman Fellowship (2007), and grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (1984), the New York State Council on the Arts (1983) and the National Endowment of the Arts (1979). Recent group exhibitions include Yale University Art Gallery, “On the Basis of Art: 150 years of Women at Yale” (2021), and the traveling Museum exhibitions: “Ansel Adams in Our Time” (2018-2023) and “Civilization, The Way We Live Now”, (2020-2023) in China, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, France and England. Conner has had numerous solo shows in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Her work was featured in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2012 and 2017) and in the exhibition “Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2010). Recent books include “Elliptical”, Penumbra Foundation (2021) “Lotus, Trees and the Jiangnan Landscape”, Hangzhou (2019),” A Long View”, Shanghai Center of Photography (2018), “Lotus Leaves”, Wairarapa Academy, New Zealand (2018). Conner has been teaching photography for over thirty-five years. She taught at the Yale University School of Art for more than a decade, and at other institutions including Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College, Cooper Union, Bard College, Stanford University, the New School, the School of Visual Arts, the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Hernease Davis earned her M.F.A from the International Center of Photography - Bard College. Her current body of work uses photograms, cyanotypes, performance and craft to emphasize self-care through the artistic process. The solo exhibition of her series, A Womb of My Own (Mistakes Were Made in Development) opened at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY in May, 2018. Her work was selected for Photography Now 2016 at the Center of Photography at Woodstock and was included in The Surface of Things at the Houston Center for Photography, an exhibition featuring photographers working with camera-less techniques. She has also exhibited with the International Center of Photography, Foley Gallery, Rush Arts, Java Project and Spaceworks as an Nfinit Foundation Artist-In-Residence. Hernease is on faculty at the Visual Studies Workshop and has served as a Visiting Lecturer at ICP-Bard where she lead a course exploring empathy through art practice. She is currently a 2019-2020 SHIFT Artist-In-Residence at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York City.
Sam Dole earned his BFA in photography from School of Visual Arts where he received the Rhodes Award for Outstanding Achievement. Sam has been an intern and workshop assistant at CAP, studied 19th C photography with noted photo historian Matthew Isenburg and has attended workshops conducted by John Coffer at Camp Tintype in Dundee, NY where he was honed his technique with wet plate legends Will Dunniway and Claude Levet. Sam’s work has appeared in Shutterbug Magazine and the SVA Visual Arts Journal and exhibited in the 2012 SVA Mentors Show as well as first prize winner at the 2012 Soho Photo Gallery Alternative Process Show.
Noah Doely received a BFA from the University of Northern Iowa and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. He has exhibited nationally and internationally in venues such as Steve Turner Contemporary (Los Angeles), The San Diego Museum of Art, Locust Projects (Miami), The Cornell Fine Arts Museum (Winter Park), Viafarini (Milan, Italy), Seattle Center on Contemporary Art, and the Des Moines Art Center. Doely has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, MacDowell, The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Penumbra Foundation, and he is a 2018 Iowa Artist Fellowship recipient. His work has appeared in various publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Juxtapoz Magazine, The North American Review, and Burnaway Magazine. He is currently an Associate Professor of Photography at the University of Northern Iowa.
Anne Eder is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator from Philadelphia. She holds an MFA in Photography and Integrated Media from Lesley University College of Art and Design where she studied with Christopher James and has been employed as an adjunct professor. Eder runs independent workshops and is faculty in the ceramics program at Harvard University and at Penumbra Foundation, NYC where she teaches courses in alternative and material processes in photography and in interdisciplinary projects. She is also a reviewer for Lensculture and juror for NYPhotocurator.
Christine Elfman is a visual artist who makes photographs about and through the process of fading. She makes pictures out of their own disappearance, to see how the desire for pictorial permanence gives way to change and the invisible. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts, BFA from Cornell University. Her work has recently been exhibited at Zona Maco in Mexico City; Philadelphia Photo Arts Center; Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College; University of the Arts, Philadelphia; Photofairs San Francisco; and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco. Awards and fellowships include a Light Work Grant in Photography, San Francisco Artist Award, Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship, and Constance Saltonstall Foundation Residency. Her work has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, Photograph Magazine, Der Greif, Humble Arts Foundation, SF Weekly, and The Photo Review. She has taught photography at Cornell University, San Francisco Art Institute, Foothill College, California College of the Arts, and UC Berkeley. She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine and lives in upstate NY. She is represented by Euqinom Gallery, San Francisco.
Lisa Elmaleh's work is an exploration of rural America. Using a portable darkroom in the trunk of her car, Elmaleh photographs using the nineteenth century wet collodion process. Elmaleh received the Silas Rhodes scholarship to attend the School of Visual Arts, and obtained a BFA with honors. She is a recipient of the Tierney Fellowship, the Everglades Artist Residency, the Camera Club of New York Darkroom Residency, and the Goldwell Artist Residency. She has been included in various group shows such as the 2008 New York Photofest (Powerhouse) and Landscape: Voyage (KMR Arts).
Odette England was raised in an isolated immigrant farming community in Australia and is based in Providence, RI. She is a 2022-23 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2023 Foam Paul Huf Award Nominee. Other awards include a Rhode Island Council 2022 Artist Fellowship and grants from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Puffin Foundation. Her third photobook, Dairy Character, won the 2021 Light Work Book Award. Her photographs have been exhibited worldwide in over 100 museums and galleries. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and is a visiting professor at Brown University and Amherst College.
Brittonie Fletcher (MFA) has a creative practice between the UK and the USA. In addition to teaching at Penumbra, Brittonie is a dedicated teacher at Stills Centre for Photography in Scotland, where she initiated their Alternative Process Program. She has taught elsewhere, including the Royal College of Art. Brittonie's work is published in books from Focal/Rutledge Press (including Christina Z Anderson's Salt book and Annette Goez's Cyanotype Toning of the same series) and Random House. Her work is exhibited and included in public collections and private international collections.
Andrew French’s work is inspired by the signature look of his daylight studio in Union Square. He shoots editorial and commercial work for clients including Food & Wine, Esquire, Town & Country, House & Garden and O, The Oprah Magazine. Before he began his career as a photographer, Andrew worked as an assistant to over 70 photographers for nine years. He traveled the world learning from some of the masters of photography including Mary Ellen Mark, Annie Leibovitz, John Dominis, Art Kane and Ruth Orkin, among others. He helped these legendary photographers create their images from building sets to designing light on location and in studios, and along the way he soaked up their approaches to making pictures. Learning from the masters shaped Andrew’s approach to his own photography and is the basis of the knowledge he shares with his students.
Jenia Fridlyand (Moscow, 1975) is a photographer and educator based in New York City and the Hudson Valley. Her photographs and books have been exhibited in the United States and abroad. The self-published edition of Fridlyand’s book Entrance to Our Valley was shortlisted for the Paris Photo - Aperture First Photobook Award 2017, and a trade edition was published by TIS Books in September 2019. Her current long-term project is based in Cuba. She is represented by Gallery Wouter van Leuween.Fridlyand is a co-founder of Image Threads Collective, a non-profit organization whose mission is to bring together artists, educators, and bookmakers in communities around the world for a mutual exchange of ideas and experiences. She organized and taught workshops and long-term courses in Ukraine, Georgia, Iceland, Canada, and Cuba, and has been teaching photobook courses at Penumbra Foundation since 2018. Fridlyand studied photography at Centre Iris and Université Paris VIII, and holds an MFA from the University of Hartford’s International Limited-Residency program.
Rose Frisenda is an artist who uses photographic materials as both the subject matter and foundation for her work. She mixes her own chemistry from scratch and manipulates the surface of outdated black and white gelatin silver papers. She’s been making chemigrams for the past 30 years and is continually fascinated with the open-ended exploration and experimentation of chemistry on silver gelatin and color papers. She creates an abstract language that is highly personal, evoking visionary and haunting states of being. Born in Sicily, Italy in 1962. She has a BFA Fine Arts degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She also attended the Master of Arts Program in Art Market /Museum Studies. She has been in numerous group shows including BAM Art Advisory, Elizabeth Foundation, Mana Contemporary, Guild Hall, Air Gallery, Susan Eley Fine Art, Lyons Weir, Curious Matter, Ille Arts and more.
Beth Ganz (b. Jersey City, New Jersey) is a multidisciplinary visual artist, who lives and works in New York City. She is interested in the intersection of landscape, digital technology, and abstraction. She works in paint, brush and ink drawing, individually and alongside digital and analog printing techniques, such as photogravure and intaglio printing. She graduated from Pratt Institute with a BFA in Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking with honors. Ganz’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including Atlas Project at Cynthia-Reeves Gallery, Up Close and Far Away, Grids and Toiles: Beth Ganz at Wave Hill House, Wave Hill, and Geothermal Topographies at Reeves Contemporary. She has also been shown in myriad group exhibitions, and her work is well represented in many public and private collections, including the 9-11 Memorial Museum, the Library of Congress, New York Historical Society, and the New York Public Library Prints Collection. Ganz teaches workshops in photogravure and intaglio at Manhattan Graphics Center and has been a long-time grantee of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts.
Tony Gonzalez is an artist currently living in New York City. He received his BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and his MFA from Yale University. In addition to working as a fine art photographer, Gonzalez has taught photography for over 30 years including at The Cooper Union, Pratt Institute and New York University. Since 2002, Gonzalez has been teaching full-time at Queens College, CUNY and is currently a Tenured Professor and Deputy Chair of the Photography & Imaging Program. Gonzalez is a contributing author for The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, Second Edition and Third Edition by Christopher James and is featured most recently in the new book Gum Printing, A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice by Christina Z. Anderson and Alternate Processes in Photography by Brian Arnold.
Hans Gremmen is a graphic designer, based in Amsterdam. He works in the field of photography, architecture and fine arts and has designed over 300 books, and won various awards for his experimental designs. Among them a Golden Medal in the Best Book Design from all over the World competition. In 2008 he founded publishing house Fw:Books; a publishing house with a focus on photography related projects and books. He recently started ENTER ENTER, a space for books; a project space in the centre of Amsterdam which explores the boundaries of the book.
Tine Guns (b. 1983) lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. She is working on her PhD, entitled The Photobook as a Visual Page-Turner: A pre- and post-cinematographic montage story (LUCA), and participates in Bioscopic Books: Artist’s books as seen through the cinema eye (LUCA). She has exhibited in Cinematek/BOZAR Brussels, Netwerk Aalst and Casino Luxembourg. Her films were screened at festivals like Jean Rouch Festival in Paris and biennials like Ostrale in Dresden. Her photos were selected for Voies Off in Arles, Antwerp Photo and Salut d’honneur Jan Hoet. In 2015 she was selected for .tiff Young Artists Belgium after a nomination by FOMU Antwerp, while her artist’s book The Diver was shortlisted for the MACK First Book Award. She was awarded the 2017 Biennial Prize for Visual Arts by the Province of East-Flanders.
Curran Hatleberg received his MFA from Yale University in 2010. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including recent shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MASS MoCA, Higher Pictures and Fraenkel Gallery. Hatleberg has taught photography at numerous institutions, including Yale University and Cooper Union. He is the recipient of a 2020 Maryland State Arts Council Grant, a 2015 Magnum Emergency Fund grant, a 2014 Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship grant and the 2010 Richard Benson Prize for excellence in photography. Hatleberg’s work is held in various museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, SF MoMA, KADIST, the Center for Contemporary Photography, the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, the Williams College Museum of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. Lost Coast, his first monograph, was released by TBW Books in fall 2016. Somewhere Someone, a collaborative artist book with Cynthia Daignault was released by Hassla Books in fall 2017. His forthcoming second monograph, Peanut's Dream, will be published by TBW Books in fall 2021.
Daniel Hojnacki recently received his M.F.A from the University of New Mexico. Hojnacki’s practice uses experimental techniques in photography as a way to be a mindful observer within the world. His work uses material that pushes against traditional approaches to the photographic printmaking process. Daniel is a recent Lenscratch student prize honorable mention, as well as a recipient of The Patrick Nagatani Photography Scholarship and Phyllis Muth Arts Award. He has exhibited work at the Museum of Contemporary Photography and The Chicago Cultural Center. Daniel has hosted public workshops and lectures with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Smart Museum of Art. His work has been featured in Lenscratch, Phases Magazine, Aint-Bad and Southwest Contemporary Magazine. Daniel is currently an adjunct professor in photography with The University of New Mexico.
Alan Huck (b. 1990) is a photographer, writer, and educator currently based out of Chicago. He received his MFA from the University of Hartford’s international low-residency program in 2018. His first book, I walk toward the sun which is always going down, was published by MACK in September 2019 and shortlisted for the 2020 Rencontres d’Arles Photo-text Book Award. He serves as a mentor through the Image Threads Collective mentorship program and teaches various interdisciplinary photography workshops through the New York City-based Penumbra Foundation. alanhuck.com
David Vades Joseph (b. 1986) is an Afro-Caribbean photographer based in New York City. Born and raised in Harlem, New York, David began his journey into photography when he was only a boy. He attended the School of Visual Arts where he obtained his BFA in Photography. Drawing inspiration from nostalgic memories throughout his childhood/adulthood, his works revolves around fragments of love, grief, memory, and home. His works have been published in The New York Times, Boooooooom, Der Grief, Paper Journal Magazine, and Humble Arts Foundation. David has also exhibited works at 80WSE Gallery, The Mural Pavilion at Harlem Hospital, Equity Gallery, and Smack Mellon. He is also an alumni of the Eddie Adams Workshop XXXIII. David is currently enrolled in the Studio Art graduate program at NYU Steinhardt.
Kevin Kunstadt (b. 1982, New York, NY) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 2004, and his MFA in photography from Hartford Art School’s international limited residency program in 2017. Since 2010 Kunstadt has produced several photographic projects in book form, on subjects as varied as: asphalt road resurfacing, gunpowder, scrap metal, and “sneakers, bricks, and politics.” These have been nominated for the Mack First Book Award, and shortlisted for the Kassel, Luma Rencontres, Fiebre, and La Fabrica Dummy Awards. His book All for the Best was published by Penumbra in 2020 and he currently manages Penumbra’s Risograph Print & Publication Residency Program.
Pablo Lerma (b. Barcelona, 1986) is a Spanish research-based artist, educator and publisher based in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). His artistic practice is developed at the intersection of image & text with a focus in visual archives and vernacular materials dealing with notions of collective memory, representation and queerness. His work takes various forms from photographic installations to publications. Currently, he is a lecturer in Social Practice & Photography at Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam (NL) and a faculty member in Media Studies at Webster University in Leiden (NL). In the last decade, he served as a faculty member in Photography & Social Justice at the International Center of Photography in New York (US) and as a professor in Photography at Kean University in New Jersey (US).
He is the founder of the publishing house Meteoro Editions (US-NL). A platform to create art publications with a focus on projects gravitating around vernacular photography, archives, utopias and fictional representations of the world.
João Linneu (b. Brazil, 1978) is based in Reykjavík. He graduated in Communication and worked for 22 years as Art Director, Head of Art and Creative Director in several advertising agencies in São Paulo and London. He received prestigious design and advertising awards such as the D&AD, Cannes Lions, One Show and Clio. For the last 15 years, João was also started developing his photographic projects, which lead him to co-found Void, an organization focused on publishing photography books and book-making education. Void works with both established and up-and-coming artists, proudly fostering photographers' debut books.
Jolene Lupo is a New York City-based photographer specializing in the wet plate collodion process. Her work explores themes of death, memory, and identification.Lupo received her BFA in Photography, from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Largely informed by the years she spent managing Penumbra Foundation’s Tintype Studio, her work is process-based with an emphasis on physicality and material. She has led numerous panel discussions on the relevance of analog photography in the digital age and hosted tintype portrait events across NYC and abroad.Currently, she works as a Forensic Photographer at the NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner and teaches workshops in wet plate collodion at Penumbra Foundation. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Metro, and Caitlin Doughty’s Ask A Mortician video series.
Sabrina Mandanici is German-Italian art critic and writer. She holds an MA in Art History and Comparative Literature from the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz and an MFA in Art Criticism and Writing from the School of Visual Arts. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, researching art criticism as a form of storytelling. Sabrina was a Research Fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), a Fulbright fellow, and a Museum Curators for Photography fellow of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Foundation. She has worked at the Sprengel Museum Hannover, the Museum Folkwang Essen, and the Walther Collection, among other institutions. In 2021 she curated the group exhibition “What’s your name when you’re at home” at Penumbra Foundation (NYC). Her writing has appeared in Artfrorum.com, Aperture, The Brooklyn Rail, Collector Daily, Camera Austria, and elsewhere. Other publications include catalogue essays on UMBO, Garry Winogrand, and Katharina Gaenssler; and an essay for Alys Tomlinson’s forthcoming photobook “Gli Isolani/The Islanders” (GOST Books).
Paula McCartney makes photographs and artists’ books that explore the idea of constructed landscapes and the way that people interact with and manipulate the natural world. McCartney earned an M.F.A. in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and has received grants from the Aaron Siskind Foundation, Women's Studio Workshop, Minnesota State Arts Board, and the McKnight Foundation. Her work has been exhibited across the US and is included in numerous public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Museum of Modern Art’s Artist Book Collection. Princeton Architectural Press published her first monograph, Bird Watching, in 2010. A Field Guide to Snow and Ice was published by Silas Finch in 2014.
Adam Meeks is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. His last short film Union County premiered in competition at the 70th Berlinale, and continued on to screen at the Champs-Élysées Film Festival, Palm Springs International ShortFest, Maryland Film Festival, and numerous others. His work frequently examines rural and peripheral American communities, and aims to exist within the intersection of documentary and narrative processes. His practice is also informed by a background in photobooks, and his most recent book collaboration with his father Raymond Meeks, entitled Somersault, will be published in September 2021 by MACK. He is a 2019 Creative Culture Fellow at the Jacob Burns Film Center and a 2021 Yaddo Artist-in-Residence. He currently works as the Senior Video Producer at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Raymond Meeks (Ohio, 1963) has been recognized for his books and pictures centered on memory, and place, the way in which a landscape can shape an individual and in the abstract, how a place possesses you in its absence. His books have been considered as a field or vertical plane for exploring interior co-existences, as life moves in circles and moments and events, often years apart, unravel and overlap, informing new meanings. Raymond lives and works in the Hudson Valley (New York). His work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Bibliotheque Nationale, France,and the George Eastman House, with recent solo exhibitions at Casemore Kirkeby in San Francisco and Fotografia Europea in Italy. His book Halfstory Halflife (Chose Commune, 2018) was a finalist for the Paris Photo/Aperture Photobook of the Year Award. His most recent book Ciprian Honey Cathedral, was published by MACK in late 2020. Meeks is a recent recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography.
Andrew Moore (born 1957) is widely acclaimed for his photographic series, usually taken over many years, which record the effect of time on the natural and built landscape. These series include work from Cuba, Russia, Times Square, Detroit, and the High Plains of the United States. His newest book, entitled Dirt Meridian, is published by Damiani Editore and will be released in the Fall of 2015. The photographs were made over a ten-year period along the lands that lie west of the 100 the meridian and addresses the history and mythology of this region known as “flyover country”. The book also includes a preface by the noted author Kent Haruf, as well other essays and an extensive set of endnotes. Moore’s photographs are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the George Eastman House and the Library of Congress amongst many other institutions. He has received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York State Council on the Arts, the JM Kaplan Fund, and the Cissy Patterson Foundation. Moore’s other publications include Detroit Disassembled, Making History, Governors Island, Russia; Beyond Utopia, Cuba and Inside Havana. He also produced and photographed "How to draw a bunny," a documentary feature film on the artist Ray Johnson. The movie premiered at the 2002 Sundance Festival, where it won a Special Jury prize. Presently he teaches a graduate seminar in the MFA Photography Video and Related Media program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Madeleine Morlet is a photographer from London, now based in Maine. She studied Classics and English at King’s College London and for almost a decade worked in video production for companies such as Ridley Scott Associates, Vice, i-D, and Somesuch. Her photography has been shown nationally and internationally. It was awarded the 14th Pollux Award, Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Award, honorable mention for the 14th Julia Maragaret Cameron Award, honorable mention for the Don’t Take Pictures Prize for Contemporary Photography, Lucie Foundation Photo Made Scholarship, Ellis-Beauregard Studio Residency, Maine Arts Commission Project Grant, and shortlisted for the Lucie Scholarship Chroma X Luxe, Belfast Photo Festival, and Felix Schoeller Photo Awards. Madeleine teaches photography workshops at Maine Media Workshops, and the Workshops at Howe Hill Farms. Madeleine works as the Features Editor for Teeth Magazine.
Olivia Mueller is a professionally trained archivist with a MLIS degree from Pratt Institute. She has been working in the field for over eight years with an emphasis on digital asset management. She has also been partnering with Melitte Buchman on the Penumbra library digitization project for over six years.
Emma Phillips (Sorrento, 1989) is a photographer based in Melbourne, Australia. Her work, set around the focal point of the home, probes ideals of domesticity, womanhood, memory and dreams. Recent activities include a major book commission from Photo Australia and Perimeter Books, nomination for the Murray Art Museum Albury National Photography Prize, acquisition from the Art Gallery of New South Wales and an exhibition at ReadingRoom in 2019. From 2014-2019 Emma was the photobook buyer at Perimeter Books, where she implemented the Perimeter Talks program, a series of panel discussions, lectures, and more casual in-conversations with publishers, artists, curators, designers, writers and editors exploring and addressing various themes and issues relating to contemporary photographic, art and design publishing. Emma is an occasional writer and educator, contributing to programs at University of Technology, Sydney, Photography Studies College, Melbourne and Penumbra Foundation, New York City. Emma holds an MFA from the University of Hartford’s International Limited-Residency program.
Morgan Post has been a large format wet plate photographer and educator for the past seven years. Post holds a MFA degree from Utah State University, a BFA degree from the School Of Visual Arts, and an Associates Degree from Maine Media Workshops. He has worked extensively as a fine art and commercial photographer & digital artist in both Los Angeles and New York. He is currently teaching at Long Island University Brooklyn, Center For Alternative Photography and Fairfield University.
Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine is a French photographer and book designer. After leading the design and production of the books at MACK during 5 years, he’s been working independently for publishers in the art and photography sector, contributing to award-winning books by artists such as Alec Soth, Joan Fontcuberta, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Pieter Hugo, Guido Guidi, Paul Graham, David Campany, Albarrán Cabrera among others, and collaborating with institutions ranging from the Tate to Le Bal, the Hasselblad Foundation to the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Jeu de Paume to the Centre National des Arts Plastiques. The third book of his own artistic work, Double Orbit, was published in the Spring of 2021, following The Significant Savages (RVB, 2011) and A Perpetual Season (MACK, 2014)
Jo Ractliffe’s photographs reflect her ongoing preoccupation with the South African landscape and the ways in which it figures in the country’s imaginary, particularly the violent legacies of apartheid. The survey exhibition Jo Ractliffe: Drives took place at the Art Institute of Chicago (2020 – 21). Other solo exhibitions include Being There, Stevenson, Cape Town (2021); Signs of Life, Stevenson, Cape Town (2019); Hay Tiempo, No Hay Tiempo, Centro Fotográfico Álvarez Bravo, Oaxaca (2018); Everything is Everything, Stevenson, Johannesburg (2017); The Aftermath of Conflict: Jo Ractliffe's Photographs of Angola and South Africa, the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York (2015) and Someone Else's Country at the Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, (2014). Her photo-books include Being There (2022); Jo Ractliffe: Photographs 1980s to Now (2020); Signs of Life (2019); Everything is Everything (2017); The Borderlands (2015), As Terras do Fim do Mundo (2010) and Terreno Ocupado (2008).
Molly Rapp is an interdisciplinary artist working in photography, video, painting, and performance. Her work is situated at the intersection of gender, sexuality, and self discovery. Rapp earned her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2014. She is an educator at School of Visual Arts & Penumbra Foundation in New York City. Molly is currently pursuing a fellowship at San Francisco Art Institute and managing Sad Girl Studio, whose mission is to empower female-identifying artists of all backgrounds.
Mike Robinson is an artist-practioner, teacher, conservator, and historian of the daguerreotype. He has researched and written on the studio practice of Southworth and Hawes forthe Young America catalogue and for the Daguerreian Society annual.Mike taught graduate and undergraduate courses in 19th Centery Photographic Processes at Ryerson University in Toronto earned his PhD in History of Photography from DeMontfort University in Leicester, UK in 2017. His dissertation is titled, The Techniques and Material Aesthetics of the Daguerreotype.
Tricia Rosenkilde is a fine art photographer and an educator. A BFA graduate of Rutgers University, she works predominantly with analog printing processes, specializing in platinum/palladium printing. Utilizing a photographic process known as “Camera Obscura”, her images display an impressionist quality that evoke the spirit of the past. Her series “Panoramic Pinholes” and “Paper Negatives” capture images of chateaux, gardens and scenic views from locations in France and Italy. In addition to her fine art work, Tricia is a dedicated instructor at The Penumbra Foundation and The International Center of Photography, NYC. During twenty plus years of teaching photography she has also taught courses and workshops at Parsons School of Design, NYC, the Morgan Library NYC, NJ Center for Visual Arts, and Seton Hall University, NJ. Her work has been shown throughout the US, including at MOCA, Los Angeles, Galerie L’Atelier/Fremin Gallery, NYC, Griner Waters Gallery, Lakeland FL, The International Center of Photography NYC, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, The Crane Arts Center, Philadelphia PA, Drew University Korn Gallery, Madison NJ, among others. Tricia is represented by Galerie L’Atelier of NYC and Paris.
David Rothenberg is a photographer and educator living in New York. In recent years, Rothenberg has made his home borough of Queens the subject of several major projects. He has produced two books of his work with the publisher ROMAN NVMERALS including Landing Lights Park, which TIME named one of the best photography books of the year. Rothenberg was the recipient of the PHOTO 2021 x Perimeter International Photobook Prize for his book Roosevelt Station. In 2019, Rothenberg was awarded the Peters S. Reed Foundation Grant for photography. Rothenberg’s photographs have been published in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Libération, Die Zeit and The New Yorker. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York and numerous library special collections including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MoMA, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Rothenberg received an MFA from Bard College and a BFA from Parsons School of Design.
Irina Rozovsky (born in Moscow, raised in the US), photographs people and places, transforming external landscapes into interior states. She has published two monographs (One to Nothing 2011 and Island in my Mind 2015). Her third book, In Plain Air, is forthcoming with TBW Books. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Harpers, and Vice. Irina lives and works in Athens, Georgia where she and her husband Mark Steinmetz run the photography project space The Humid. Irina is represented by Claxton Projects.
Liz Sales is a photo-based artist, art writer, and educator. She was an editor at Conveyor Magazine and currently writes for Foam Magazine, Mercuria Magazine, and LensCulture. She is a core faculty member in the Creative Practices program at the International Center of Photography. She has been a faculty member at The City University of New York, The University of Connecticut, and The Penumbra Foundation. Sales currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.
Mariela Sancari (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1976). She lives and works in Mexico City since 1997. Her work revolves around truthfulness and fiction in images, using personal narratives to explore the boundaries of the scope of photography as a means of representation. It refers to the affective dimension, yet not sentimental, of autobiographical work, as well as formal explorations of the medium, through questions related to staging and self-referentiality in photographic practice. She has received numerous awards for her work: Winner of the VI Bienal Nacional de Artes Visuales Yucatan 2013 and PHotoEspaña Descubrimientos Prize 2014, her work was selected for the XVI Bienal de Fotografía from Centro de la Imagen and received an Honorable Mention in XI Bienal Monterrey FEMSA, among others. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Guatemala, Sao Paulo, Caracas, Houston, Los Angeles, Athens, Belfast, London, Barcelona, Madrid, Busan and Jaipur, among others. Her first book Moisés was selected by several curators and reviewers, such as Sean O'Hagan, Tim Clark, Erik Kessels, Jörg Colberg and Yumi Goto, among others, as one of the Best Photobooks published in 2015. In 2017 she published her second book in collaboration with writer Adolfo Córdova: Mr. & Dr. Her new book The two headed horse. Reenactment in ten acts will be published with Asunción Casa Editora in 2020. Coordinator of FOLIO, a public photobook library and photobook program of Centro de la Imagen, in Mexico City.
Mike Slack lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. A co-founder of The Ice Plant, his books include The Transverse Path, the Polaroid trilogy OK OK OK, Scorpio, and Pyramids, as well as High Tide and Shrubs of Death. His work has appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and his photographs are in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Claudia Sohrens is an artist from Germany. Her work expands on the notion of the artist as researcher, archivist, producer and circulator, and is featured in private collections and has been presented in numerous group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. As an independent curator, she has worked on many projects, including the 2017 "Pop-Up Archive" at Mana, featuring works from alumni of her class "What is an Archive?” at ICP; the “Action Archive” during her artis residency at A.I.R in 2015, a Foto/Pod "What is a photograph?" at the 2013 Dumbo Arts Festival, as well as the exhibition entitled “Ulrike ist Schuld” at the German Embassy in New York in 2001. Fellowships awarded to her include the 2018 VSC residency, the 2017 ICP Artist Residency at Mana, 2014-15 A.I.R. Fellowship, the 2010 NYFA Fellowship for Photography, and the AIM23 Artist Residency at the Bronx Museum in 2002. Her long-term photographic research project 'Mise En Abyme: Archive', has fiscal sponsorship through Artspire/NYFA, where she served as a mentor for NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Program since 2011. Sohrens is a teaching artist for Photography and Youth Media programs with Artists Space, BRIC Arts & Media and in the Summer program at Sotheby's Art Institute and The School of The New York Times. She is Visiting Assistant Professor in the B.F.A. Programs at Pratt Institute and Cooper Union, and faculty at the International Center for Photography.
Joni Sternbach is a native New Yorker. She holds a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts and an MA from New York University/International Center of Photography. Sternbach uses both large format film and early photographic processes to create contemporary landscapes and environmental portraits. Her work centers on our relationship with water, contrasting some of the most desolate deserts in the American West to iconic surf beaches around the world. Her work is included in many public collections, with the most recent acquisition from MOCA, Jacksonville, National Portrait Gallery in London and The Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City. She is the recipient of several grants and prizes including the Clarence John Laughlin award, NYFA and 2nd prize winner in the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize competition 2016.
Miwa Susuda has been at the center of the photobook industry for over 16 years, as both a photobook consultant at Dashwood Books in NYC, and as the founder and director of Session Press. She has appeared at galleries, art fairs, and museums worldwide, including Vertical Assembly with Lesley A. Martin, CONTACT Photo, the Tokyo Art Book Fair,The Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA, and the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. Ms. Susuda’s Session Press imprint has received numerous prestigious prizes and nominations. Her publication of Red Flower, by Mao Ishikawa, was selected as a 2017 best book of the year by Liberation. In addition, Taratine by Daisuke Yokota and Bible and Dildo by Momo Okabe have all won the Paul Huf Award at Foam Museum in the Netherlands.
Martyna Szczesna’s work investigates the heterotopic as a site of dissonance and resilience. Focusing on the mutability of the image and reiterating it through a variety of media she pairs the photographic with unconventional armature. This precarious method of assembly, its vulnerability, serves to further amplify phenomenological effects of fugitive color and surface. The result: bifurcation or meiosis, depending on who you ask. Born in Olsztyn, Poland, Szczesna immigrated to the United States with her family in the early nineties. She is a graduate of the Cooper Union for the Arts and Sciences and holds an MFA in Photography from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work has been supported by residencies at Penumbra Foundation, Yucca Valley Material Lab, Franconia Sculpture Park, Bullseye Glass, AZ West as well as the AIM program at the Bronx Museum. Select exhibitions include: If Rittenhouse--, Callicoon Fine Arts, Portrait of a Landscape, Museo Sivori, Buenos Aires; The Third Bronx Biennial, Bronx Museum, NY; and Flat Touch, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
Carl Weese was born in 1949 and grew up in New Jersey. From 1972 to the present, Weese has worked as a freelance photo-illustrator for editorial and corporate clients. His personal photographs have been widely exhibited in group and one-person shows and he is represented by galleries in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Washington and Virginia. He is co-author of the 1998 book The New Platinum Print, an instruction manual on modern approaches to the classic platinum/palladium photographic printing process.
Terri Weifenbach is a photographer interested primarily, but not exclusively, in the book form. Since her first book, In Your Dreams, was published in 1997 she has authored more than eighteen titles. She has worked with several publishers, most recently Atelier EXB in Paris where she now resides. Weifenbach taught the basics of photography, analog color photography as well as courses and seminars on the photobook at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, American University and Georgetown University where she lived previously in Washington, DC. In 2015 she was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship. She exhibits internationally and had her first solo museum exhibition, The May Sun, at the IZU Photo Museum in Japan in 2017.
Dan Welden is a painter/ printmaker, educated at the Akademie der Bildenden Künst in Munich, Germany where he created and has continuously pioneered alternative printmaking techniques including the Solarplate etching process. As co-author of "Printmaking in the Sun", director of Hampton Editions, Ltd. and Master Printmaker, Dan has collaborated and produced prints for Willem de Kooning, Eric Fischl, Kiki Smith, and Dan Flavin, as well as many others.With work related travels to 53 countries, he has received recognition with residencies, workshops, lectures, culminating 98 solo exhibitions to date and has received the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from A/E Foundation, New York and was awarded Professor Emeritus from the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Cuzco, Peru. Grants included 3 vists to the Masereel Centrum, Belgium; QE II Arts Council residence for New Zealand; a 1987 NYSCA research residency; three residencies with the Chinese government in Guanlan, China; Freudenberg Arts in Berlin, Germany and most recently in 2020 he received a Pollock/Krasner Grant propelling his artistic talents and returned him to his painting career.
Sara J. Winston is a New York-based artist who uses photography, writing, and the book form to describe and respond to chronic illness and its impact on the body, mind, and nervous system. Winston is the author of four photobooks, among them A Lick and a Promise published by Candor Arts in 2017 and Homesick published by Zatara Press in 2015. Her work is held in public collections internationally, including the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, the Tate Library and Archive in London, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. Sara received a MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago in 2015.
Em White (b. 1990, Bremo Bluff, VA) is an American photographer and visual artist, specializing in historic photographic processes and large format work. She draws on her background in sociology and her rural upbringing to examine how the self is informed by environment and the means in which beauty can exist beyond the superficial, as a device for disruption. White explores the sensory joy within the mundane and how that joy changes when it is shared. She lives and works in Richmond, VA with her two dogs, Sadie and Gus. She runs a portrait studio where she collaborates with members of the community to produce tangible works in a digital era. She teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University and various community art organizations. Her work has been exhibited in various group shows and her debut solo exhibition High Water was held at Candela Gallery in 2021.
Bryan Whitney is a photographer and artist in New York City who specializes in using experimental imaging techniques for site specific installations. He is an expert in x-ray imaging, 360 and VR photography and printing on alternative materials such as transparencies, mylar, Japanese papers. He holds an MFA in Photography from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and a BA in the Psychology of Art from the University of Michigan, and has been the recipient of a Fulbright lecture grant. His work has been exhibited widely in galleries and he has photographed for a variety of publications such as Fortune, Martha Stewart, Wired and the NY Times. His current work focuses on nature and climate change using immersive imaging techniques.
Carl Wooley is a photographer and co-founder of TIS books, a Brooklyn-based publisher of photobooks. Recent publications include Entrance to Our Valley, by Jenia Fridlyand, El Libro Supremo de la Suerte, by Rose Marie Cromwell; township, by Raymond Meeks, Tim Carpenter, Adrianna Ault, and Brad Zellar; and A Dozen Failures, by John Gossage. Carl is a graduate of the University of Hartford, Hartford Art School, where he received his MFA.
Robin Zachary is a NYC-based tabletop and prop stylist with a passion for vintage objects and ephemera. She’s the creator of The Prop Styling Experience, a 1:1 workshop teaching the art and business of styling to photographers, chefs and product makers from all over the globe. She’s a faculty member in the Photo Department of The Fashion Institute of Technology and Contributing Home Editor at Bridal Guide Magazine. Her commercial clients span famous home product brands, national magazines, e-commerce, and social media outlets.
Craig Zammiello is an artist and Master Printer with over 40 years of experience in all areas of printmaking. He is author of a studio manual on photogravure, as well as Conversations from the Print Studio published by Yale University Press. He worked for 25 years at Universal Limited Art Editions, where he collaborated with numerous artists, notably Jasper Johns, Elizabeth Murray, James Rosenquist, Kiki Smith and Robert Rauschenberg. Currently, he is Master Printer at Two Palms Press working with Mel Bochner, Ellen Gallagher, Chris Offili, Elizabeth Peyton and Dana Schutz. Zammiello has exhibited his own work in the United States and abroad. His prints can be found in the collections of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Hoesch Museum in Duren, Germany. Zammiello received an MFA from The State University of New York, Stony Brook in 1995. He is currently Adjunct Faculty at the School of the Arts at Columbia University. Zammiello has taught workshops and classes at New York University, Yale University, The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and the Flemish Center for the Graphic Arts in Belgium.
Brad Zellar is a writer and editor who has collaborated with photographer Alec Soth on a number of projects, including The LBM Dispatch, a series of seven newspapers that explored the status of American community in the age of cyberspace. Zellar has also made books with Adrianna Ault, Raymond Meeks, Tim Carpenter, and Jason Vaughn, and is the author of Suburban World: The Norling Photos, Conductors of the Moving World, House of Coates, and Driftless. His most recent book is Till the Wheels Fall Off, a novel. He lives in St. Paul.