Wendy Ewald is a conceptual artist and educator who has for forty years collaborated in art projects with children, families, women, and teachers worldwide. Starting as documentary investigations of places and communities, Ewald’s projects probe questions of identity and cultural differences. In her work with children she encourages them to use cameras to record themselves,
Doug DuBois’ photographs are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, SFMOMA in San Francisco, J. Paul Getty Museum and LACAMA in Los Angeles, The Museum of Fine Art in Houston, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He has received fellowships from
Photographer Dornith Doherty’s work explores the ever more complex relationship between the natural environment and human agency through photographic projects focusing on landscape stewardship and genetic resource preservation. Doherty attended Rice University (B.A., cum laude, 1980 with dual majors in Spanish Language and Literature, and French) where she studied with photographer Geoff Winningham. Inspired by
Stephen DiRado, a Worcester, Massachusetts, resident for over twenty-eight years, lives in a triple-decker along with family and friends. His summers are spent on Martha’s Vineyard where he has immersed himself into its island-wide community.. Always staying close to home, DiRado relentlessly documents the world around him. Many of his subjects span decades of scrutiny.
I make limited-edition books that are handprinted, and include photogravures, text printed from metal type or xylographically, and sometimes color woodcuts. The photogravures I make from black-and-white photographs that I have taken in the field. The text in certain volumes is accomplished through collaboration, while in others I have composed it. Setting out on the
Elizabeth Barret is the producer/director of the acclaimed media production Stranger with a Camera, a personal and poetic interrogation of the documentary genre that raises far-reaching questions about what it means to take pictures. Her place-based work is produced in association with the artist-centered organization Appalshop located in the Appalachian coalfields. Barret is the recipient
Born in Lima, Peru, Milagros de la Torre has been working with various conceptual photographic media since 1991. She studied communication sciences at the University of Lima and received a B.A. (Hons.) in photographic arts from the London College of Printing. Her photographs emerge from a rigorous research process, critical argumentation of the photographic apparatus,
John Willis received his M.F.A. in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1986. Since that time he has been teaching photography and exhibiting his personal fine art and documentary imagery. John is the Professor of Photography at Marlboro College and co-founder of the In-Sight Photography Project founded in 1992, offering courses to
Betsy Schneider is a photo-based artist. Over the past ten years she has focused her camera and her attention on ideas surrounding childhood, parenthood, consumption, and relationships. Earlier work explored decay and the body, and revealed a penchant for looking closely at strange visceral things such as rotting fruit, placentas, and the mouth. She uses
Karolina Karlic is a Los Angeles–based photographer born in Wroclaw, Poland. Karlic’s work is invested in the representation of American culture, more specifically immigrant emplacement and diasporic existence. In search of the American dream, her family immigrated to Detroit in 1987 when her father fled communist Poland to find work in the U.S. auto industry.
Jon Lowenstein has been a professional photographer for more than ten years. He specializes in long-term, in-depth projects that confront the realms of power, poverty, and violence. As a documentary photographer, he strives for unsparing clarity, and believes images make a critical contribution by revealing the subjects of history that lack voice. At the core
Shelby Lee Adams was born in Hazard, Kentucky, in 1950, and educated at The Cleveland Institute of Art and Massachusetts College of Art. He is the author of three photography books, all published by The University Press of Mississippi, Appalachian Portraits 1993, Appalachian Legacy, 1998 and Appalachian Lives, 2003. In addition to his Guggenheim Fellowship
Federico Rubio was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1966. He was educated in Uruguay (Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad de la República) and the U.K. (Post-Graduate Degree in Photojournalism, London College of Printing). He has worked as a photographer for a number of national magazines and newspapers, among them Posdata, of which he eventually became
Byron Wolfe holds a deep and abiding interest in ideas about time and change, as well as the intimate relationships often made with a place and with others. He explores these themes collaboratively and individually as an artist and an educator. His creative efforts are often meditations on how photography and other forms of representation
Brian Ulrich was born in 1971 in Northport, New York, and currently lives in Chicago, Illinois. Since 2001 he has been engaged with a long-term photographic examination of the peculiarities and complexities of the consumer-dominated culture in which we live. This project, titled Copia, explores not only the everyday activities of shopping, but the economic,
Cheryle St. Onge was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the only child of a physics professor and a painter. She grew up on college campus and on the back of a red roan pony. She cites making pictures with a view camera as the pivotal point where, short of horses, she discovered her next passion. Her
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