Artists

Jesse Burke

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Jesse Burke divides his time between personal art projects and commissioned work. A New England native, he currently lives in Rhode Island with his wife and their three daughters, Clover Lee, Poppy Dee, & Honey Bee. He received his MFA from Rhode Island School of Design, where he is a faculty member, and his BFA from the University or Arizona. Jesse’s work deals with themes related to vulnerability and identity, as well as human’s complicated relationship with nature. Daylight Books will publish his monograph, Wild & Precious, in October 2015. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in the U.S. and abroad including The Haggerty Museum, the Perth Center for Photography, the Tucson Museum of Art, the Print Center in Philadelphia and the Lishui Photo Festival in China and is held in many private and public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. Jesse was recently named one Time Magazine’s top 50 US photographers to follow on Instagram.

Caleb Charland

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Growing up in rural Maine, Caleb Charland spent much of his childhood helping his father remodel their family home. These experiences instilled an awareness of the potential for the creative use of materials, and the ability to fabricate his visions. Charland earned a BFA in photography with departmental honors from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2004, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a Trustees Fellow in 2010, and was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in several major collections including  the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Progressive Collection, Dow Jones Corporation, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Charland is a 2016 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipient and currently lives and works in Maine.

Caleb Churchill

Caleb Churchill

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Caleb Churchill (b. 1980, New York) is an American photographer living in Providence Rhode Island. He is an MFA Photography candidate at the Rhode Island School of Design. He received his BFA in Photography from the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland and his MA in the History of Photography from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His work has been included in the Brighton Photo Fringe at the Moore House (Brighton, England,) The Cell (Glasgow, Scotland,) and at the University of St. Andrews in conjunction with a visiting artist lecture. He has participated in DO IT! Houston, an exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary of Hans Ulrich Obrist’s exhibition do it and the release of do it: the compendium (Houston, Texas) as well as his solo exhibition Terra Incognita at Settlement Goods (Houston, Texas). He is currently working on a collaborative exhibition with Raina Belleau entitled Fantasia Colorado at Grin Gallery (Providence, RI), an interdisciplinary exploration into how truth becomes legend.

Christine Collins

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Christine Collins is an artist who lives and works in Boston, MA. She received a BA from Skidmore College and a MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Recent exhibitions include You Can’t Get There From Here: The 2015 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Landscape as Fetish, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA, Forces At Work, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, [Photo]gogues: New England, Flash Forward Festival, Boston, MA, The Easiest Season, Rayko Gallery, CA. Her work has been featured in The Portland Press Herald, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, Town and Country Magazine, Esquire Magazine, and Hawk & Handsaw: Journal of Creative Sustainability among others. She has been a Critical Mass Finalist, nominated for the Prix Pictet, and selected as a Review Santa Fe 100. Collins is the recipient of a St. Botolph Club artist fellowship. She has been on the summer faculty of the Maine Media Workshops since 2003 and has taught at Anderson Ranch Arts Center. She has taught at Lesley University College of Art and Design since 2004, where she is currently an assistant professor and chair of BFA Photography.

Matthew Cronin

Matthew Cronin

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Matthew Cronin lives and works in Boston, MA. His work has been exhibited in several major cities including New York, Los Angeles, and Vancouver. He received his BFA from from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with honors in photography.

Jim Dow

Jim Dow

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Jim Dow’s photographs focus on the passage of time as it is recorded in landscapes from North Dakota to Great Britain to Argentina. Using an 8 x 10 inch view camera, Dow (American, b. 1942) turns his lens to roadside signs, aging buildings, and interiors that feel locked in another era. His images honestly record the scenes before his camera, avoiding sentiments of nostalgia while paying tribute to lands marked by past and current residents. A leading American photographer, Dow pushes his viewer to reconsider familiar surroundings and discern the beauty and cultural history hidden in modern landscapes.

Dow first gained attention for his panoramic triptychs of baseball stadiums, a project that began with an image he made of Veteran’s Stadium in Philadelphia, PA, in 1980. To date, Dow has documented more than two hundred major and minor league parks in the United States and Canada. Dow is an internationally exhibited artist and has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, LEF Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. He was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work has been published in American Studies (2011), Marking the Land (2007), Where We Live: Photographs from the Berman Collection (2006) as well as in international magazines and academic and fine art journals.

In addition to teaching at Harvard University and Tufts University, Dow has taught photography at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, for over twenty years. His work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; United States Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Decordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; and Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK.

Jim Dow is represented by Robert Klein Gallery, Boston.

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Vivian Ewing

Vivian Ewing

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Vivian Ewing (b. 1992) was raised on Martha’s Vineyard and earned a BFA in photography with honors from the Maine College of Art in 2015. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at PhoPa Gallery in Portland, Maine as part of Seeing Through: Maine Photographers 30 and Under and in Hard Lines at Doomed Gallery, London. She has been featured in print as part of Meanwhile Press’ Locals zine and in online publications. Vivian has worked as a writer, an exhibiting artist, an editor, a publisher’s intern and a curator’s assistant.

Matthew Gamber

Matthew Gamber

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Matthew Gamber (b. 1977) lives and works in Somerville, Massachusetts. He is the recipient of a Blanche E. Colman Award, a Traveling Fellowship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the New Photography Grant from Humble Arts Foundation. His recent exhibitions include Unfixed: The Fugitive Image, Transformer Station, 2016; Still Life Lives!, Fitchburg Art Museum, 2013–2014, Basic Ingredients Of A Complex World, Gallery Kayafas, 2013, Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then and Now, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, 2012–2013, The 2012 deCordova Biennial, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, 2012.

Gamber is an Assistant Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the College of the Holy Cross, having previously taught at Lesley University College of Art and Design, Boston College, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Savannah College of Art and Design, Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He has also previously worked on archive and digitization projects with Harvard University and the Boston Public Library for Digital Commonwealth.

Eric Gottesman

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Eric Gottesman is a photographer, teacher and artist. Central to his practice is collaboration. He uses photography, writing and video as vehicles to engage others in conversation and critical thought about the social structures that surround them, and him. Among other awards, he is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a Creative Capital Artist Fellowship, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant and an Aaron Siskind Artist Fellowship. His work is in various collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and his first book, Sudden Flowers, was published to critical acclaim in 2014. He is currently a visiting professor at Hampshire College.

Pepa Hristova

Pepa Hristova

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Pepa Hristova (b. Bulgaria, 1977) lives in Hamburg. She studied communication design with a focus on photography with Prof. Ute Mahler at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. The photographer has created numerous series on Eastern Europe, photographing the Turkish Muslim minority in Bulgaria and Albania’s “Sworn Virgins”— women who live in a male identity conferred by an ancient rite. Hristova received multiple fellowships and awards including the C/O Berlin Talents Award (2008), the Otto Steinert Award for subjective photography (2009), a fellowship from the Berlin Academy of Arts, and the Border Crossers grant of the Robert Bosch Stiftung (2010). Her work has been on display at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, C/O Berlin, the Berlin Academy of Arts, and elsewhere.

Cole Kelley

Cole Don Kelley

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Cole Don Kelley is a photographer born and raised in Paris, Texas. He is currently pursuing his MFA at the Yale School of Art and lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

 

 

Lisa Kereszi

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Lisa Kereszi was born in and grew up in Suburban Philadelphia to a father who ran the family auto junkyard and to a mother who owned an antique shop. In 1995 she graduated from Bard College with a Bachelor of Arts. She is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art at the Yale School of Art, where she received her MFA in 2000.

Her work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and others. She is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, where she most recently had the 2012 solo show, “The Party’s Over,” a thematic follow-up to her 2009 book “Fun and Games,” both which explore the ways in which we, as humans, devise escpist environments and spectacles to remove ourselves from the realities of everyday life.

In 2003, she was granted a commission to photograph Governors Island by the Public Art Fund, which culminated in a 2004 exhibition catalog, Governors Island, in which she explored what was left behind on a former army and coast guard base just a stone’s throw from Manhattan.

Two other monographs are in print: Fantasies in 2008, which explored the burlesque revivalist movement and her latest book, Joe’s Junk Yard, which was released in early Fall 2012, and examined her own family’s achievement and subsequent loss of the American Dream.

Justin Kimball

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Justin Kimball was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1961. He earned a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design, and an M.F.A in Photography from the Yale University School of Art. The recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, an Aaron Siskind Individual Photographers Fellowship, a Kittredge Educational Grant from Harvard University and the Project Development Grant from Center in Santa Fe NM, he is the author of the monographs Where We Find Ourselves, C.A.P., Pieces of String, Radius Books and Elegy (forthcoming) Raduis Books.

His work can be found in over 40 museum collections, including the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), the National Gallery of Art, the George Eastman House and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Kimball’s images have been included in such publications as DoubleTake, Harper’s, PDN, Photo Metro, Photograph and Picture magazines.

Kimball has taught photography for more than twenty years and is currently a Professor of Art at Amherst College. He is represented by Carroll and Sons in Boston Massachusetts.

Joannie Lafrenière

Joannie Lafrenière

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Documentary photographer and filmmaker, Joannie Lafrenière loves people. Her work, influenced by an anthropological approach, is a progressive study of the human being. Holding degrees in journalism and photography, Joannie has taken part in several recognized publications. In recent years, she has directed for television, for the web (on different projects produced by the NFB) and has been acting as filmmaker mentor with Wapikoni Mobile which works with different aboriginal communities in the province of Quebec. Her latest documentary project, THE WOMAN WHO SAW THE BEAR, has been shown in major festivals across Canada and internationally.

She is now working on her first feature-length documentary (SNOWBIRDS) that reaches out to golden age Quebecers living in Florida during the winter season. Joannie lives, works and plays in Montreal, Quebec — but has been known to escape to faraway places.

Alexandros Lambrovassilis

Alexandros Lambrovassilis

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Lambrovassilis’ photographs serve as an eerie metaphor for Greece itself, “ a country laid low by the financial crisis that followed years of economic mismanagement during the years of plenty.” As Ellinikon is slowly transformed in the years to come, this project aims to raise awareness at the importance of historic preservation and collective memory.

Jason Larkin

Jason Larkin

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Jason Larkin (b 1979) is a London-based British photographer, internationally recognised for his long-term social documentary projects. He is the author of Cairo Divided, Tales From The City Of Gold, Platinum and Waiting. The freely-distributed Cairo Divided was nominated for both the Deutsche Börse and Prix Pictet photography awards. Recent exhibitions have included a solo show at Flowers Gallery, UK & Farnsworth Art Museum, USA, Brighton Photo Biennial, UK and Unseen, Holland. His work is held in various public and private collections.

S. Billie Mandle

S. Billie Mandle

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S. Billie Mandle received her BA in English and biology from Williams College and an MFA in photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She is the recipient of a Whiting Fellowship, a Kahn Institute Fellowship, an Artist Fellowship in Photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and an Individual Artist Grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council. Photographs from her series Reconciliation were selected for the 25th Hyères Photography
Festival in France. Her work has also been nominated for the Prix Pictet and the Paul Huf award. She is an assistant professor of photography at Hampshire College and lives in Leverett Massachusetts.

Rania Matar

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Born and raised in Lebanon, Rania Matar moved to the U.S. in 1984. Originally trained as an architect at Cornell University, she currently works full time on her personal photography projects and teaches photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Matar’s work has been widely published and exhibited in the U.S. and internationally, most recently at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers From Iran and the Arab World; Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington DC; Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York; East Wing Gallery, Dubai; Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut; Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg Germany; Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida; Sharjah Art Museum; National Portrait Gallery in London.

Matar has won numerous awards, including the 2011 Legacy Award at the Griffin Museum of Photography, 2011 and 2007 Massachusetts Cultural Council artist fellowships, first place at the New England Photographers Biennial and Women in Photography International. In 2008 she was a finalist for the distinguished Foster Award at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, with an accompanying solo exhibition.

Matar’s images are in the permanent collections of several museums, institutions and private collections worldwide.

She has published three books: L’Enfant-Femme (2016), A Girl and Her Room (2012), Ordinary Lives (2009)

Lindsay Metivier

Lindsay Metivier

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Lindsay Metivier (b.1985, Burlington, Vermont) is an artist and independent curator based in Boston, Massachusetts.  She holds an undergraduate degree from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and is the proprietor of Aviary Gallery, an exhibition space and art book store with a digital photography lab. Additionally she teaches photography and works as a photographer on a freelance basis. Her work has been shown most recently at the Dorchester Art Project, Door 3 Gallery, Stonecrop Gallery and the Nave Gallery. Her work has been featured on Humble Arts Foundation and A New Nothing.

Courtney Nimura

Courtney Nimura

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Courtney Nimura (b. 1981) is a photographer and archaeologist living and working in London and Oxford, UK. Her work focuses on form, color and ‘beauty’ in the everyday, on archaeological excavations, or in her academic workspaces. Having lived abroad for the last decade, collaboration is an important element of her work. Nimura is currently a researcher at the University of Oxford and continues to exhibit and publish in the USA.

Birthe Pinotek

Birthe Piontek

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Birthe Piontek is a fine art photographer based in Vancouver BC, Canada. Originally from Germany, she moved to Canada in 2005 after receiving her MFA from the University of Essen in Communication Design and Photography. Birthe describes her photography as an exploration of the individual and is interested in the concept of Self. Her main focus is portrait photography but she also utilizes other art forms like installation and sculpture to investigate the essence of  portraiture and to what degree identity can be visualized.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, in both solo and group shows, and is featured in many private and public collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and the Museum of Applied Arts in Gera, Germany. Birthe’s project The Idea of North won the Critical Mass Book Award 2009, and was published as a monograph in 2011. She was nominated for the AIMIA AGO Award 2014, and her recent project Lying Still was shown during the Capture Photo Festival in Vancouver in spring 2015. Her work has appeared in a number of international publications like The New York Times Magazine, Le Monde, Wired and The New Yorker among others.

Trevor Powers

Trevor Powers

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Trevor Powers (b. 1985, Burlington, VT) is a visual artist living and working in western Massachusetts whose practice is centered around and informed by the everyday, coincidence, nature and collaboration. His work is realized through photographs, zines, artists’ books and curatorial projects. He has had zines published by Arts & Sciences Projects (NYC), Oranbeg Press (NYC) and Brown Owl Press (United Kingdom). Powers currently serves as the editor and designer for the photography journal, Papersafe, which he co-founded in 2014.

Camilo Ramirez

Camilo Ramirez

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Camilo Ramirez was born in Santa Monica, California and raised in Bogota, Colombia as well as various cities throughout California, Texas and in Miami, Florida. He holds a B.F.A. in Photography from Florida International University and an M.F.A. in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is currently on view at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and in a solo exhibition at the Bromfield Gallery with upcoming solo exhibitions this year at Roxbury Community College, ArtsWorcester and the Vermont Center for Photography.

He was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship Grant in 2009 and an Emerson Faculty Advancement Fund Grant in 2014. This year he was awarded an Emerson Consumer Awareness Project Grant, a ArtWorcester Biennial Juror’s Prize, a Review Santa Fe 100 invitation, a Lensculture 50 Emerging Talent Award, and is the winner of the BOAAT Press Photography Competition. His work has been featured on CNN, The Boston Globe, Aint-Bad Magazine, Burn Magazine, and in an upcoming limited edition monograph to be published by BOAAT Press in 2016. Camilo currently lives and works in Boston, MA where he serves as SPE Northeast Regional Vice-Chair and Assistant Professor of Photography at Emerson College.

Frank Relle

Frank Relle

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Frank Relle is a photographer born and based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He graduated from Tulane University with degrees in Cognitive Science and Philosophy. His work is included in the public collections of the Smithsonian Museum of American History, the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and in the private collections of Wynton Marsalis, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Ellen DeGeneres, Drew Brees, Sheryl Crow and Kayne West.

His photographs have been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, National Geographic, The Southern Review and The Oxford American magazines.

Frank is the recipient of numerous awards including a 2007 International Photography Award and the Photo Lucida Critical Mass top 50 photographers 2006 and 2011.

He was the curator of the New Orleans to Moscow Cultural Exchange Exhibition at the Multimedia Museum.

Ou Zhihang

Ou Zhihang

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Ou Zhihang was born in Guangzhou China. He has been working for Guangdong Television since 1988 as a journalist, TV producer and anchor. He took up photography in 1970s. In early 2000s, he transformed into a contemporary artist. In 2008, his See and Be Seen performance art series triggered a profound concern, making the “Ou-style Push-up” a public symbol with unique meanings. In 2009, The Moment series which combines “Ou-style Push-up” with major social events in China, was widely acclaimed by critics and academics. In 2010, The Moment won the Honorary Mention in the 53th World Press Photo Contest. One of the unique and important parts of Ou Zhihang’s art is to reconstruct news events through constant internet presentations. This is also an effective way to achieve the work’s dissemination, communication and growth. Through more than seven hundred Push-up photos, he explores new possibilities of contemporary art in the internet era.

He is convinced that social progress replies on the awakening of people, and he is confident in the pushing role of art during the process. Although keeping a low profile when creating the actual photos, he is highly profiled in society as he emphasizes the communication and interaction between the socially engaged work and the masses.

Curators

Leslie K. Brown

Leslie K. Brown

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Leslie K. Brown is an independent curator, scholar, and educator pursuing her PhD in photohistory at Boston University. A former curator at the Photographic Resource Center from 2001-09, Brown holds an MA from the University of Texas at Austin. She has also worked at the Cheekwood Museum of Art, Austin Museum of Art, and guest curated exhibitions for the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward Festival. Her other projects include essays for Sandi Haber Fifield’s book Between Planting and Picking (2011), the Davis Museum’s exhibition catalog A Generous Medium: Photography at Wellesley 1972-2012 (2012), and self-published ventures by John Chervinsky (2013) and Carol Golemboski (2013). Brown has taught at BU, Lesley College of Art and Design, Rhode Island School of Design, and Wellesley College. A speaker at CAA and SPE, among others, she has also served as an guest juror and reviewer for exhibitions and programs, awards and fellowships, and portfolio review events, such as Fotofest, Photolucida, and Critical Mass. Brown is a native of Rochester, NY and the product of a Kodak family.

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MaryAnn Camilleri

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Founder, The Magenta Foundation
Director, Flash Forward Festival

Established in 2004, The Magenta Foundation is Canada’s pioneering non-profit, charitable arts publishing house. Magenta was created to organize promotional opportunities for artists, in an international context, through circulated exhibitions and publications. Projects mounted by Magenta are supported by credible international media coverage and critical reviews in all mainstream-media formats (radio, television and print). Magenta works with respected individuals and international organizations to help increase recognition for artists while uniting the global photography community. Through its successful emerging photographers program, Flash Forward, Magenta’s expansion into Boston has allowed the organization to set a standard for community collaboration while developing both a domestic and international presence vital to the success of artists. Magenta’s latest diversification and growth will continue through Magenta POP. These pop-up art exhibitions premiered in2013 in Pittsburgh.

Anita Douthat

Anita Douthat

Anita Douthat is currently Associate Director of Carl Solway Gallery and was the first Curator of the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University from 1985-92. Douthat received a BS from the Institute of Design, Chicago and an MFA from the University of New Mexico. Douthat’s photograms are widely exhibited and included in numerous collections such as the Cincinnati Art Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Columbus Museum of Art; and the University of New Mexico Art Museum. Her solo exhibition “Under the Sun” was on view in 2014 at the Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati. In 2010, her work was included in “Wedded Perfection” at the Cincinnati Art Museum and in 2007, she had a solo show at the Indianapolis Art Center. In 2006, 2003 and 2000, respectively, her photograms were featured in two-person exhibitions with Cal Kowal at the Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University; Weston Art Gallery; and the Cincinnati Art Museum. Douthat has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts, and Kentucky Foundation for Women. Born in Cincinnati, OH, she currently resides in Alexandria, KY.

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Karen Haas

Karen Haas

Karen Haas has been the Lane Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston since 2001, where she is responsible for a large collection of photographs by American modernists, Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and Imogen Cunningham. The Lane Collection, which has recently been given to the Museum, numbers more than 6,000 prints and ranges across the entire history of western photography from William Henry Fox Talbot to the Starn twins. Before coming to the MFA, she received her MA from Boston University and held various curatorial positions in museums and private collections, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the BU Art Gallery, and the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover. Her recent activities include exhibitions, Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott; Edward Weston: Leaves of Grass; and Bruce Davidson: East 100th Street; and publications, An Enduring Vision: Photographs from the Lane Collection; MFA Highlights: Photography; Ansel Adams; and The Photography of Charles Sheeler: American Modernist.

John P. Jacob

John P. Jacob

John Jacob is McEvoy Family Curator for Photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. From 2011 to 2015, he served as Director of the Legacy Program for the Magnum Foundation, and from 2003 to 2015 he was Director of the Inge Morath Foundation, both in New York City. He was Executive Director of the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University from 1993 to 2000, and Director of Exhibitions before that as well as a previous contributor to the PRC’s former journal VIEWS: A New England Journal of Photography, a guest curator, and a juror for its grant sponsorship program. Recent exhibitions include Man Ray: Unconcerned But Not Indifferent (2007; co-curator with Noriko Fuku), Inge Morath: First Color (2009), and Erich Hartmann: New York Stories, 1946–1957 (2012). Recent publications include Ernst Haas: On Set (Steidl, 2015) and Kodak Girl: The Martha Cooper Collection (Steidl, 2011); Inge Morath: On Style (Abrams, 2016) is forthcoming. Jacob began his career as an artist, working with reproductive media including photography, rubber-stamps, mail art, and artist’s books.

Greer Muldowney

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Greer Muldowney is an artist, photography professor, and independent curator based in Boston, Massachusetts. She received an undergraduate degree in Political Science and Studio Art from Clark University, and an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Ms. Muldowney has acted as the Curator for the Desotorow Gallery in Savannah, GA and is the Regional Coordinator for the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward Festival. She also serves as an active member of the Board for the Griffin Museum of Photography, and currently teaches at Boston College, Boston University and Lesley University College of Art and Design.

Ms. Muldowney’s work has been exhibited and published Nationally and Internationally. She is also the recipient of the 2013 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship and a PDN 30 Photographer to watch for 2014.

Alicia Savage

Alicia Savage

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Alicia Savage is a fine art photographer based in Boston. Her portfolio “Destinations”, a series of conceptual self-portraits, has been published and exhibited internationally. Ms. Savage is the co-director of Midway Gallery, a multi-discipline exhibition space located in Midway Artists Studios in Fort Point Boston.

George Slade

George Slade

George Slade was the curator and programs manager at Photographic Resource Center in 2010 and 2011. In addition to his organized exhibitions, Slade led the editorial revision of the PRC’s magazine, Loupe; revival of NEO’s monthly online portfolios; creation of the “Nights”; and the reorganization of the Aaron Siskind Library. He now lives in Minnesota, where he is the founder and executive director of the non-profit TC Photo. Prior to his arrival in Boston, George held leadership positions at the Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the McKnight Foundation Photography Fellowships Program. Holding a BA in American Studies from Yale University, he earned his MA in Organizational Leadership from St. Catherine University in 2014. Slade continues to write extensively on photography, including regular contributions to Black & White magazine and photo-eye books online. He is also something of an Instagram addict; you may find him there @rephotographica.

Julien Beaupré Ste-Marie


Photography Editor
Managing Editor/Books & Exhibitions, The Magenta Foundation

Julien Beaupré Ste-Marie is a photo editor with an international roster of clients and contacts. The photography, video and illustration projects he has commissioned have won National Magazine, Grafika, Lux, NATJA and Pearl awards and have been praised in numerous publications including Applied Arts, Communication Arts, Computer Arts and Creative Quarterly. As a curator he has developed shows for the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward Festival, and exhibited in Toronto, Boston, Portland and London. Formerly the Photo Editor of enRoute magazine, he is now Managing Editor/Books & Exhibitions at the Toronto-based Magenta Foundation. Beaupré Ste-Marie possesses a background in Art History and Communications, and his interests lie in fashion and art photography as well as the magazine media.

Francine Weiss

Francine Weiss

Francine Weiss has been curating, teaching, and writing about photography for over fifteen years. As the most recent Curator of the Photographic Resource Center (2012-14), she wrote essays for the Loupe journal and curated and organized exhibitions on alternative processes, portraiture and identity, and color photography. Prior to the PRC, she organized and researched exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s National Gallery of Art, Harvard University Art Museums, and deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. Weiss has published extensively about art and has taught at Wellesley and Simmons colleges. She received her PhD in American Studies in photographic history from Boston University and now teaches in the MFA in photography program at New Hampshire Institute of Art and for the art history department at BU; Weiss is also the Collection Manager at Fitchburg Art Museum.

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Educators

Lindsay Metivier

Lindsay Metivier

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Lindsay Metivier (b.1985, Burlington, Vermont) is an artist and independent curator based in Boston, Massachusetts.  She holds an undergraduate degree from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and is the proprietor of Aviary Gallery, an exhibition space and art book store with a digital photography lab. Additionally she teaches photography and works as a photographer on a freelance basis. Her work has been shown most recently at the Dorchester Art Project, Door 3 Gallery, Stonecrop Gallery and the Nave Gallery. Her work has been featured on Humble Arts Foundation and A New Nothing.

Andrew M.K. Warren

Andrew M.K. Warren

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Andrew M.K. Warren is an artist and educator living in Boston, Massachusetts. He grew up in Andover, MA. and received his BFA and MFA from Tufts University/SMFA. His photographic work has been widely exhibited locally and nationally, and can be seen on his website. Some recent exhibitions include the FENCE at Photoville in Boston, SF Camerawork in San Francisco, Lincoln Arts Project in Waltham, the Griffin Museum in Winchester, and the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester. He has taught photography and video at Boston Latin School, the Photographic Resource Center, University of New Hampshire, Wellesley College, Art Institute of Boston, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, New England School of Photography and currently teaches at the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, MA. He enjoys surfing and playing records for his cat Floyd. (Portrait by Sarah Malakoff from the Swap )

Shelley Zatsky

Shelley Zatsky

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Shelley Zatsky is a photographer currently living and working outside of Boston. Shelley received a BFA in Photography from California Institute of the Arts and a MFA in Fine Art from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University.  Very interested in architecture, interiors and history, these themes are a constant through her work. When not photographing interiors for designers, library objects, or teaching, Shelley can often be found collaborating with her 5-year-old son on his Lego themed photo “projects.”

Judges

Laura Blacklow

Laura Blacklow

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Laura Blacklow, a professional artist for over thirty years, is the author of New Dimensions in Photo Processes: A Step-By-Step Manual for Alternative Techniques (Focal Press, revised fourth edition, 2007). She is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship for Works on Paper/Artists’ Books, the St. Botolph Club’s Morton Bradley Color Award, Polaroid Corporation’s Artist Support Program, a Research Grant from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, and a Massachusetts Artists’ Foundation Fellowship. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Photographic Resource Center and was president of Artists’ Call Against US, Intervention in Central America. She is an active member of the Guatemala Solidarity Committee and has been volunteering for over two decades in Central America and Cuba.

Blacklow’s manipulated photographic prints and artists’ books have been shown internationally, and reproductions of her work have appeared most recently in Exploring Color Photography, Robert Hirsch, Elsevier Publishing, London, 2015; Photography Beyond Technique, Tom Persinger, Focal Press/Taylor & Francis Group, New York, 2014; and 500 Handmade Books: Volume 2, Julie Chen, Lark/Sterling Publishing, New York, 2013.

Blacklow has been on the faculty of the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for twenty-five years, where she has taught in both the Graphic Arts & Printmaking Department and the Photography Department. Her courses have included artist’s books, oral and visual storytelling, historic photographic processes, black-and-white analog photography, color digital photography, and cameraless photography.

Jim Dow

Jim Dow

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Jim Dow’s photographs focus on the passage of time as it is recorded in landscapes from North Dakota to Great Britain to Argentina. Using an 8 x 10 inch view camera, Dow (American, b. 1942) turns his lens to roadside signs, aging buildings, and interiors that feel locked in another era. His images honestly record the scenes before his camera, avoiding sentiments of nostalgia while paying tribute to lands marked by past and current residents. A leading American photographer, Dow pushes his viewer to reconsider familiar surroundings and discern the beauty and cultural history hidden in modern landscapes.

Dow first gained attention for his panoramic triptychs of baseball stadiums, a project that began with an image he made of Veteran’s Stadium in Philadelphia, PA, in 1980. To date, Dow has documented more than two hundred major and minor league parks in the United States and Canada. Dow is an internationally exhibited artist and has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, LEF Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. He was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work has been published in American Studies (2011), Marking the Land (2007), Where We Live: Photographs from the Berman Collection (2006) as well as in international magazines and academic and fine art journals.

In addition to teaching at Harvard University and Tufts University, Dow has taught photography at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, for over twenty years. His work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; United States Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Decordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; and Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK.

Jim Dow is represented by Robert Klein Gallery, Boston.

Photo by Kevin Meredith

Greer Muldowney

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Greer Muldowney is an artist, photography professor, and independent curator based in Boston, Massachusetts. She received an undergraduate degree in Political Science and Studio Art from Clark University, and an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Ms. Muldowney has acted as the Curator for the Desotorow Gallery in Savannah, GA and is the Regional Coordinator for the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward Festival. She also serves as an active member of the Board for the Griffin Museum of Photography, and currently teaches at Boston College, Boston University and Lesley University College of Art and Design.

Ms. Muldowney’s work has been exhibited and published Nationally and Internationally. She is also the recipient of the 2013 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship and a PDN 30 Photographer to watch for 2014.

Camilo Ramirez

Camilo Ramirez

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Camilo Ramirez was born in Santa Monica, California and raised in Bogota, Colombia as well as various cities throughout California, Texas and in Miami, Florida. He holds a B.F.A. in Photography from Florida International University and an M.F.A. in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is currently on view at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and in a solo exhibition at the Bromfield Gallery with upcoming solo exhibitions this year at Roxbury Community College, ArtsWorcester and the Vermont Center for Photography.

He was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship Grant in 2009 and an Emerson Faculty Advancement Fund Grant in 2014. This year he was awarded an Emerson Consumer Awareness Project Grant, a ArtWorcester Biennial Juror’s Prize, a Review Santa Fe 100 invitation, a Lensculture 50 Emerging Talent Award, and is the winner of the BOAAT Press Photography Competition. His work has been featured on CNN, The Boston Globe, Aint-Bad Magazine, Burn Magazine, and in an upcoming limited edition monograph to be published by BOAAT Press in 2016. Camilo currently lives and works in Boston, MA where he serves as SPE Northeast Regional Vice-Chair and Assistant Professor of Photography at Emerson College.