Joanne Dugan

Joanne Dugan is a New York City-based photographer, visual artist and author who explores the intersections between analog photography, painting, sculpture and mindfulness. Her work focuses on photography as a physical medium and on seeing as a dynamic, cognitive process that connects people through shared viewing experiences. Dugan’s one-of-a-kind images, collages and sculptures are made from Cyanotype, Silver Gelatin and other traditional light-sensitive photographic materials and are informed by Buddhist principles and ongoing mindfulness meditation practices. Dugan’s work has been exhibited in the US, UK, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and Japan. Publications include The New York Times T Magazine, the Harvard Review, Unseen and Photograph magazines, among others. Her published books include Mostly True, which is in the permanent library collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the New York Public Library and the George Eastman House. She was recently awarded residencies at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Peaked Hill Trust and the Abbott Watts Residency for Photography and was a finalist for the Meijberg Art Prize at Unseen Amsterdam. She teaches and lectures at institutions throughout the US and abroad.