Maja Orsic

Maja Orsic is Director of Robert Klein Gallery, a fine art photography gallery in Boston. Orsic studied Professional Writing and French & Francophone Studies at Carnegie Mellon University and worked in community programs and development at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, before starting at the gallery in 2010. With a background in writing, she is especially interested in the written word as it relates to photography; specifically, how artists choose to present themselves and their work. Director since 2013, Orsic works closely with artists and collectors, serving as a matchmaker for the two. She has recently placed works at the Fitchburg Museum of Art and the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art. She has been a regular participant at the annual portfolio reviews at the Rhode Island School of Design and juried the 2014 Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography, awarded by the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Orsic also runs the Instagram account @theselfiewareness, which is going to go viral any day now.

Roswell Angier gittermangallery.com

Roswell Angier, born in 1940 and known for his photographs of Boston’s Combat Zone, studied at Harvard University and University of California, Berkeley. Having driven through the New Mexico and Arizona numerous times, remembering Robert Frank’s image of an Indian bar on Highway 66 in Gallup, New Mexico, Angier photographed the towns surrounding the Navajo Nation between 1978 and 1982. His images from the American Southwest depict a people trying to persevere in the midst of a community gripped by increasing marginalization and debilitating alcoholism.

Angier has taught photography for over 35 years; he is on the faculty of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and currently heads the photography program at Tufts University. Angier’s books include A Kind of Life: Conversations in the Combat Zone (1976) and Train Your Gaze (AVA Books, 2007), which examines portrait photography from technical, theoretical and historical perspectives. His work is included in numerous institutional collections, including: Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA; Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; and Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.

Roswell Angier is represented by Gitterman Gallery, New York.

Karl Baden kbeveryday.blogspot.com

Karl Baden is a photographer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His photographs have been exhibited widely at galleries and museums, including  Robert Mann Gallery; Zabriskie Gallery; Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Miller Yezerski Gallery; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Decordova Sculpture Park and Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Musée Batut, France; Photokina, Cologne, Germany; The Photographers Gallery, London. Baden has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Kenan Foundation, and Light Work Visual Studies. His photographs and visual books are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Addison Gallery of American Art; Polaroid International Collection; the List Visual Arts Center at MIT; the Guggenheim Museum; the New York Public Library; and the Boston Public Library. He has been on the faculty at Boston College since 1989.

Karl Baden is represented by Miller Yezerski Gallery, Boston.

Claire Beckett clairebeckett.com

Born and raised in Chicago, Claire Beckett earned a BA in Anthropology at Kenyon College. She then worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin, West Africa, before going on to earn an MFA in Photography at Massachusetts College of Art.

Claire Beckett is represented by Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston. Her photographs have been featured in solo exhibitions at Carroll and Sons, Bernard Toale Gallery, the University of Rhode Island, and the Wadsworth Atheneum. She has participated in group shows at Mass MoCA, the Chelsea Museum of Art, the Haggerty Museum, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the Photographic Resource Center, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Hendershot Gallery, FOTODOK (NL), and the Noorderlicht Festival (NL), among others. She is a recipient of an Artadia Award, a Blanche Coleman Award, and a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, and has been artist-in-residence at Light Work.

Claire Beckett resides in Boston, where she is a full-time visiting faculty member in photography at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Bill Burke binhfoto.com

Bill Burke was born in Milford, Connecticut in 1943. He received a BA in Art History from Middlebury College and a BFA and MFA in Photography from Rhode Island School Of Design. He has received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, as well as two artist’s fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts.

His publications include I Want To Take Pictures, 1987; Bill-Burke-Portraits, 1987; They Shall Cast Out the Demons, 1983; Mine Fields, 1995; and most recently, Autrefois Maison Privee, 2004. The images in Mine Fields were taken in Southeast Asia. His travels took him on journeys through the political, cultural and social traditions and upheavals of foreign lands. Burke’s images are not objective political documentary, but rather humane portraits.

His work is in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; the Smithsonian Institute Museum of American Art; and the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. Currently, Burke teaches photography at the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Bill Burke is represented by Miller Yezerski Gallery, Boston, and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.

Alejandra Carles-Tolra alejandractr.com

Alejandra Carles-Tolra is a Spanish photographer from Barcelona, Spain, living in the US East Coast. Her work examines the relationship between individual and group identity, and how the latter shapes the former. Questions regarding what defines it, the role the surroundings play, and the threshold between individual and group identity drive and inform her work as an artist. She received a BA in Sociology from the University of Barcelona and an MFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Her work has been published and exhibited internationally, most recently at CNN, Photo Center NW in Seattle, Valid Foto BCN Gallery in Barcelona, and The New York Photo Festival. She has received several awards and mentions, such as LensCulture’s 21 New & Emerging Photographers and Descubrimientos PhotoEspaña 2013. She was a winner of the Biennal D’Art Jove at the Fine Arts Academy of Sabadell in Barcelona. She has taught photography at The University of New Hampshire, Bryant University, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design, among other institutions.

Jim Dow jimdowphotography.com

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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Jennifer Garza-Cuen deadpanphotography.com

Jennifer Garza-Cuen burst into anonymity at an early age. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, she was struck with wanderlust and began traveling as a teenager. Adventure and exploration were the foundation of her photography. She spent more than a decade roaming Europe’s haunts, absorbing the palette of Mexico and the shifting sands of North Africa. Eventually she returned to the States, landing for a time in Reno, Nevada. Its rarified world of slot champions, cocktail waitresses, and divorce parties at motel casinos provided ample artistic inspiration. It was not long before Garza-Cuen set out for Providence, where she completed her MFA in Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2012. The recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, Garza-Cuen’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her images have been published in contemporary photography journals such as Blink and The Photo Review. Working in a constructed-documentary style, Garza-Cuen explores ideas of place, cultural memory, and inheritance.

Cig Harvey cigharvey.com

Photographs and artist books by Cig Harvey (British, b. 1973) have been widely exhibited and reside in the permanent collections of major museums and collections worldwide. A native of Devon, England, Harvey sees her photographs as vignettes that depict daily life in all its complexities. In addition to self-portraits, Harvey makes pictures of family and close friends to better understand their relationships. Her photographs are an attempt to legitimize her moments of uncertainty and to visually celebrate times of elation, when we are reminded that the world, in all its complexities, can be mind-blowingly beautiful. She uses color, gesture and space to seduce the imagination.

Harvey was a recent finalist for the BMW Prize at Paris Photo and the Prix Virginia, an international photography prize for women. Her first solo museum show was held at the Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Norway, in the spring of 2012, coinciding with the release of her monograph, You Look At Me Like An Emergency (Schilt Publishing, 2012). With her vibrant photographs and startlingly honest writing, Harvey transforms quotidian experiences that reference time and place, creating totems that mark key places in her life.

Harvey lives in a farmhouse in the Midcoast of Maine with her husband Doug (who has the profile of an emperor on a Roman coin), their wayward daughter Scout, and Scarlet the dog (the original baby). She was an assistant professor at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University for ten years, but recently took a leap of faith to devote her life to purely making things. She tries to do this every day, and then pretends to clean up the mess she’s made with varying degrees of success. Her work is in the collections of International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art, Hamilton, Bermuda; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME; Bowdoin College, Special Collections, Brunswick, ME; and University of Washington, Special Collections, Seattle, WA.

Cig Harvey is represented by Robert Klein Gallery, Boston.

Brian Kaplan briankaplanphoto.com

Brian Kaplan is a Boston-based photographer who makes photographs about American culture, the relationship between man and nature, and the human condition. Brian’s series, I’m Not On Your Vacation, was a recent solo exhibition at Danforth Art (Framingham MA). His photographs been part of numerous other shows – including, in New England, at the Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester MA), Panopticon Gallery (Boston MA), St. Botolph Club (Boston MA), Schoolhouse Gallery (Provincetown  MA), Stonecrop Gallery (Ogunquit ME), New Hampshire Institute of Art (Manchester NH), Nave Gallery (Somerville MA), Panopticon Imaging (Rockland MA), and in the annual Juried Auction at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Boston MA).

Forest Kelley forestkelley.net

Forest Kelley (b. 1980 from Barre, MA) received a BA in Social Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design. He is currently an adjunct professor of digital art and time-based media at Virginia Commonwealth University. His photographic work considers the friction between identity and culture — how personal psychology lives within a social ecology. A collaborative book, with artists from RISD and Brown University, of transcribed discussions on the subject of “re-framing the real” is in the works.

Camilo Ramirez camramirez.com

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.

Dayna Rochell daynarochell.com

Dayna Rochell was born in California. After earning a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute, she came to the East Coast to complete her MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Rochell has been exhibited on both coasts and won the Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography in 2014 for her series Holiday Park.

Brian Ulrich notifbutwhen.com

Brian Ulrich was born 1971 in Northport, New York. His photographs portraying contemporary consumer culture reside in major museum collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.

Ulrich earned an MFA in photography at Columbia College Chicago and a BFA in photography at the University of Akron. An internship at the Akron Art Museum further fueled Brian’s research and knowledge of the history of the medium. He later spent considerable time working at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in NY and then the Cleveland Museum of Art, often staying after hours to sift through the vast libraries, collections and archives of photography. It is this understanding of the history of the medium that informs much of his work which today addresses issues social, political and historical.

Since finishing his graduate studies in 2004, Ulrich has had solo exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; the Julie Saul Gallery; and the Robert Koch Gallery. His work has also been included in many group exhibitions such as the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Photography; Galerie f5.6 in Munich; the Krannert Art Museum; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Walker Art Center; and the Carnegie Museum; among others.

Brian Ulrich is an Assistant Professor of Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. He is represented by Robert Koch Gallery, San Francsico.