Field-Of-Study: Photography

Born in Pennsylvania, Mark Ruwedel is an artist/photographer currently living in Long Beach, California. He received his M.F.A. from Concordia University in Montreal in 1983 and taught there from 1984 to 2001; he is currently a Professor at California State University in Long Beach. He was awarded major grants from the Canada Council for the

Matthew Pillsbury was born and raised in France but now lives in New York City. He received his B.A. in fine art from Yale University in 1995 and an M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2004. Pillsbury has focused on creating long-exposure black-and-white photographs using only the available light at the

Lori Nix was born in the late 1960’s and raised in the American Midwest. Her early exposure to the destructive powers of Mother Nature and Hollywood dystopian stories fueled her young imagination and has led her to where she is today. For the last 20+ years she has constructed small-scale dioramas and photographed them. Beginning

Andrew Moore, a large-format photographer for more than thirty-five years, is best known for his portfolios on Cuba, Russia, Times Square, and Detroit.  His latest project, Dirt Meridian, began in 2005 with a visit to a cattle branding at a friend’s family ranch in Keene, North Dakota.  While not flopping calves that May afternoon, Moore

Valerio Spada lives between New York and Milan. His work is exhibited, collected, and published internationally. On September 2011, Time magazine announced his first self-published book Gomorrah Girl to win the Grand Prize PBN Photography Book Now 2011 as Best Book of the Year, nominated by a panel of eleven international judges, among them Darius Himes,

Alec Soth is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo Biennials. In 2008, a large survey exhibition of Soth’s work was exhibited at Jeu de Paume in Paris and Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland. In 2010, the

Gary Schneider is a photographer whose early work in painting, performance, and film remain integral to his explorations of portraiture. He strives to marry art and science, identity and obscurity, figuration and abstraction, the carnal and the spiritual. Schneider has had a number of solo exhibitions at such prominent venues as Artist Space, New York

Christian Patterson (born Fond du Lac, Wisconsin) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, and is a self-taught artist. Photographs are the heart of Patterson’s work but they are often complemented and informed by other mediums. This is done to create a more immersive, multidimensional experience, and to expand narrative potential and interpretive possibilities. Patterson’s

Deborah Luster is best known for her long-term documentary series, One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana (1998–2003, with poet C. D. Wright), a photographic archive of portraits of prisoners from three Louisiana prisons, including the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola; and Tooth for an Eye: a Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish (2008–2011), a photographic

Deana Lawson is a photo-based artist born in Rochester, New York.  Her work examines the body’s ability to channel personal and social histories, addressing themes of familial legacy, community, romance, and religious-spiritual aesthetics.  Her practice borrows from simultaneous visual traditions, ranging from photographic and figurative portraiture, social documentary aesthetics, and vernacular family-album photographs. Lawson is

Michael Kolster is currently photographing a selection of American rivers four decades after the 1972 Clean Water Act.  The project includes sections of the Androscoggin River in Maine, the James River in Virginia, and the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania. With his Guggenheim Fellowship he plans to continue photographing these rivers and two others in the

“Sharon Harper’s work jettisons this idea of the photograph as a seamless window to reality and replaces it with a magic mirror, a transformative surface that is capable of making the invisible visible and the intangible tactile.” —Stephen C. Pinson, Robert B. Menschel Curator of Photography and Assistant Director, Arts, Prints and Photographs, New York

Born in Brooklyn, Bruce Gilden studied sociology at Penn State University for a short while. In 1968, photography was in the air and after seeing Michelangelo Antonioni’s film Blow Up, Gilden bought a camera and decided to become a photographer. Although he attended some evening classes in photography at the New York School of Visual

Scott Conarroe’s large-format photos evoke romantic pictorial traditions.  His studies of sprawling geo-cultural features locate the present in a sweep of history.  His series By Rail and By Sea look at railways and the coastline perimeter of the United States and Canada; they depict the westernmost front of Western Civilization as a vast bloc of

Fazal Sheikh is an artist who uses photographs to document people living in displaced and marginalized communities around the world. His principal medium is the portrait, although his work also encompasses personal narratives, found photographs, sound, and his own written texts. He works from the conviction that a portrait is, as far as possible, an

Bill Jacobson (born 1955, Norwich, Connect) has been making photographs for nearly forty years.  Prior to moving to New York in 1982, he received a B.A. from Brown University (1977) and an M.F.A. from San Francisco Art Institute (1981). In his application for the fellowship, Jacobson sums up his work as follows: “Inherent throughout is

Since the age of 14 Mr. Gossage has devoted his life to photography and the music of Charles Edward Anderson Berry.