Margaret M. Stratton

Margaret Stratton’s photographs explore how elements hidden deep within the natural world echo the human consciousness. Stratton has been the recipient of two national NEA Fellowships in Photography and New Genres, and three regional NEA Fellowships, in Photography, Film/Video Production, and Interdisciplinary Arts. She was awarded the Grand Festival Prize at IMAGES: Film Board of Canada, Montreal, Canada, and Directors Award, Black Maria Film Festival, Los Angeles. Group exhibitions include: The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; Camerawork, San Francisco; The Henry Gallery, Seattle; Ellis Island Museum, Ellis Island, New York; Mediopolis, the 45th International Berlin Film and Video Festival; the Harvard Archive, Cambridge, MA; and Maladjustment, Lincoln Theatre, Boston. Publications include: How the Past Shapes Modern Photography, Time Magazine, lightbox.com; The Living and The Dead: The Neapolitan Cult of the Skull, University of Chicago Press; Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photography; Contact Sheet #110, Detained in Purgatory, Light Work, Syracuse, NY; Art, Document, Market, Science: Photography’s Multiple Roles, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Reframing’s: New Feminist Photographies, Temple University Press. Born in Seattle, and emerita professor of art, University of Iowa, Stratton lives on Camano Island in Washington state.