Henry Barnard has exhibited at art shows for the last 11 years and won several awards, including "Best in Show" in a 2005 show sponsored by the Newport (RI) Art Museum. He holds a number of master's degrees, and has studied photography at ICP where he also worked as a teacher's assistant in darkroom courses. He has been a member of The Camera Club of New York for 12 years, and is a master B+W printer known for his sepia-toned photographs. His landscape photography often plays with abstraction and ambiguity, with a printer's consciousness of tonal values.
Juliana Beasley was born in Philadelphia, PA, in 1967. After graduating from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in New York in 1990, she began working as a freelance photographer, covering the city's nightlife for the ,Village Voice. In 1997, she produced a long-term photographic project on child labor and mental illness in Albania, later printed in The Christian Science Monitor. In 2003, she published Lapdancer (powerHouse Books 2003), an intimate photographic and text account of the world of strip clubs. In 2004, she photographed the rehabilitation of landmine victims in Cambodia. Her newest book project concerns substance abuse and mental illness in a boardwalk community in Queens, New York. In the Fall of 2005, Beasley held her first one-woman show at Galleri Kontrast in Stockholm, Sweden. In the Fall of 2006, she won third prize in a juried group show at the Camera Club of New York curated by Antonin Kratachovil. Her work has appeared in many major publications, including American Photo and The New Yorker in the U.S., and Max in Germany. Her work is represented Contact Press Images and the pH on-line gallery, both in New York. She is based in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Michael Berkowitz Born in New York City in 1952, Michael Berkowitz has spent his entire life in the pursuit of both beauty and adventure. He's been a photographer, painter, sculptor and performance artist while traveling the world in search of experience and inspiration. In addition to his art, which was always been his greatest passion, he has been an art professor, mountain climber, a martial arts teacher and world-class competitor, French chef, tightrope walker, and fine furniture maker. He's been married four times (he swears the current one is the last!) and has "been there, and done almost everything" - from attending the Woodstock Festival at age 16 to hitchhiking from Istanbul through Afghanistan to India, to working on an Andy Warhol film. Michael uses his vast and varied experiences to bring depth and meaning to all his work. Michael's work is in museums and private collections throughout the world. Recently, his work has been featured in the book, "Masterworks of the Jewish Museum." He is currently working on his memoirs.
Art Brewer is the master of surf photography, and has photographed surf culture for over 30 years. He has had numerous gallery showings internationally and has been published in numerous magazines including Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Esquire, Playboy and Photo District News, and has worked on numerous Ad campaigns.. His book, "Masters of Surf Photography: Art Brewer" was released in the fall of 2001.
Christine Callahan is a native New Yorker. She earned her B.F.A. in photography at the School of Visual Arts in 1992. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Miami, Atlanta, Northern Ireland and Wales. She is a recipient of several grants including; Arts Council of Northern Ireland Lottery Fund, British Arts Council and the ISE Cultural Foundation, program for emerging curators. She currently teaches photography at The Camera Club of New York. Her work is represented by the Jen Bekman gallery. www.jenbekman.com
Jesse Cesario got a BFA in photography from SVA in 2006 and teaches photography at PS142, an elementary school on the lower east side.
Bill Costa specialized in erotic male nudes in rustic settings and desolate locations and was the author of two monographs in photography, Costa (1995, Stonewall Inn) and Icons (1999, Gmunder.) He had exhibitions in New York with Degen Scharfman, Leslie Lohman, and other galleries, and posthumously, with Wessel and O'Connor Gallery, which continues to represent his work. He died in 1995.
Pradeep Dalal is an artist and writer. He exhibited recently at Orchard and the New York Public Library, and in San Francisco at TART. His writing has been published in ARTWURL, TeachingPhoto.com, Village Voice, and EGO Magazine. He is on the faculty at the International Center of Photography, New York.
Todd Deutsch earned his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. His photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at the Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, and the Pingyao International Photo Festival, Pingyao, China. In 2005, Deutsch received a University of Minnesota/McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Gamers, an ongoing project about videogame culture. Selections from the series are included in Photography Now: 100 Portfolios, a DVD ROM survey of contemporary photography published by Wright State University, and Gamescenes: Art in the Age of Videogames, published by Johan & Levi, Milan. His work can also be found in private and public collections including TRIS- Escuela de Fotografia, Montevideo, Uruguay, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
Max Dworkin was born in upstate NY in 1983 and graduated from SVA in the spring of 2006. He graduated with a BFA in photography as well as receiving the Tierney Grant, which is given to one student from each major visual art school in NYC. The grant provides money for the recipient to continue working in the field after graduation and also provides gallery space for a show upon completion of the project. He is currently living in Brooklyn and working as a photo assistant while building his portfolio.
Smith Elliot I was born on a commune in Topanga, California. My parents were among the first hippies and lived in a school bus. What a wonderful bus it was!! On one side it had a mural of Leonard Peltier wearing a tiger striped speedo, holding chrysanthemum in his right hand and a rifle in his left hand. The other side was completely black. In the winter, we faced the black side toward the sun to keep warm.
For some of my young life we were gypsies and lived on the road. My mom performed magic and danced with coins glued to her belly for a living. My dad sat around and ate mushrooms all day. Sometimes he would roll out of the bus like a donut and spread his jelly all over the earth. And we would sit and watch the lollipop trees growing from shallow pools of my dad's jelly secretions. It was . . .wooooow, man. It was cats and dogs and kool-aid.
So I grew up in this really odd matrix of things gone awry. At 18, I decided to seek normalcy and went to college. That made me more well-informed, I guess. But not enough. So I went to grad school. I earned my MFA, and I figured out how to act conventional. I have a conventional job in the art department of a local college, where people see my daily costume and assume it represents some greater truth about who I am inside. This is good. It means I can pay my rent. I was going to say that I was a sheep in wolf's clothing, but that's not true. I don't know how to describe the costume and how it differs from the internal thing that I keep secret. So I shall suffice it to say that I am an impostor. What you see is not what you get. What you don't see is better than what you do see. I believe this is true of all of us.
Christian Erroi is a Swiss-Italian artist whose work was selected for the 2005 Art + Commerce Festival of Emerging Photographers in New York, and was documented in the book called Peek. The show has appeared in Tokyo, Milan, Madrid and Stockholm in 2006.
Erroi's earlier work was selected for the first Art + Commerce Festival of Emerging Photographers in 2004, and he had a solo exhibition called "Paesaggi" at Galleria Il Raggio in Lugano, Switzerland in 2003.
Other exhibitions include group shows with the arts collective Aviate in New York City, the Center for Photography in Woodstock, NY, the International Center of Photography Education Gallery, as well the Museum of Modern Art. His first solo show was in Lugano in 1999.
Erroi studied at the International Center of Photography in New York, where he was selected as recipient of the Via Wynroth Grant.
His work is primarily focused on a complex struggle that he has had seeing and communicating after 15 years of neurological problems.
In the coming month, Erroi's work will be featured in the Sunday magazine of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. His work is in a number of private collections, as well as those of New York's Museum of Modern Art, Lugano's Museo Cantonale and Lausanne's Musˇe de l'Elysˇe. In 2007, he will have a solo exhibition called "as above" at Cons Arc Gallery in Chiasso, Switzerland.
Ryan Foerster was born 1983 Newmarket Canada and currently lives between there and New York. He's had solo exhibitions in Australia, Toronto and Texas and forthcoming Berlin, Milan, and Sweden. Ryan's artwork has been featured in such publications as Border Crossings, the Globe & Mail, New York Post, People, and Vice. He has shot ad campagins for Virgin Mobile and Fila.
Today Ryan is at the Camera Club writing a short bio about himself.
Martine FougeronTête-à-Tête is a series of intimate portraits of my two adolescent sons and their friends at home in New York City, begun in the spring of 2006. This work explores adolescence as a liminal state, between childhood and adulthood, and between the feminine and the masculine. This summer I focused on summer vacation days in France, and this fall, back in New York, I began to investigate situations of teen tribal night life.
My inspiration comes from Dutch painting, especially Vermeer's mysterious domestic scenes and Rembrandt's expressive tableaux. I am also influenced by conventions of cinema, especially the dramatic effects of set lighting. Recently, excerpts of this series have been awarded in national juried shows, at the Camera Club of New York and in the Golden Light Awards of the Maine Workshops.
I was born in France and educated at the Lycée Français de New York, Wellesley College, and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. I spent many years in the perfume industry as a Creative Director. I graduated from the 2005-2006 General Studies Program at the International Center of Photography in June of 2006.
Allen Frame is a New York photographer whose book Detour, a compilation of his work over the last decade, was published in 2001 by Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg. He is represented by Gitterman Gallery in New York, where he had a solo exhibition in April, 2005. He has been the recipient of grants from the Penny McCall Foundation, the Peter Reed Foundation, Creative Time, Art Matters, CECArtslink, and is a contributing editor of artwurl (www.artwurl.org) and Bomb Magazine. He teaches photography at the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, and the International Center of Photography. He co-founded the contemporary art center Delta Axis in Memphis in 1992 and presently serves on the board of the Camera Club of New York, Delta Axis, and the Advisory Committee of PS 122 Gallery. In 1990, he co-created Electric Blanket, an epic slide show about AIDS, which has toured throughout the U.S. and abroad, and most recently to Russia, in 2003. He has been the curator of numerous exhibitions, including, most recently, In This Place at Art in General in 2004, Bearings: the Female Figure at PS122 Gallery, 2006, and Linda Salerno, at The Classroom at PS122 Gallery, 2006. He was born in Mississippi in 1951 and graduated from Harvard University in 1974.
Frank Franca's photographs have been exhibited and published internationally. His work has appeared in Art Forum, Details, Vogue, Marie Claire, Le Monde, W and The Cairo Sun among others. He is a former London correspondent for Fairchild Publications. Frank has lectured on contemporary photography in Europe, Japan, and The US. He is a faculty member of The International Center of Photography and Pratt Institute, both in New York City. He has a degree in filmmaking from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. In addition to his photography, Frank has worked extensively in theater and video, both as a director of photography and as a lighting designer. Frank was an original member of the Visual Aids Artist Caucus. With Nan Goldin and Allen Frame, he is a cocreator of Electric Blanket: AIDS Projection Project.
Stanley Greenberg has published two books: Invisible New York: The Hidden Infrastructure of the City, (1998, Johns Hopkins University Press), and Waterworks: A Photographic Journey Through New York's Hidden Water System, (2003, Princeton Architectural Press.) In 2005 he received a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation to photograph contemporary architecture under construction. A book of the work will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008.
Greenberg's work has been exhibited and is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. His work was also included in Arti & Architettura 1900-2000 in Genoa, Italy, in 2004. In addition to the Guggenheim Fellowship, Greenberg has also received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
Stanley Greenberg was born and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Lois Greenfield has been photographing dance for 25 years. She began as a photojournalist in Boston but after moving to New York City in 1973, she started specializing in dance photography for the Village Voice and other publications. She preferred to photograph dancers in a studio rather than the dancer's environment to better capture the dancers spirit and freeze them in the act of defying gravity.
Greenfield's editorial clients include Sports Illustrated, Time, Elle, Vogue, Life, and The New York Times Magazine. Her photographs have been used in print ads for Raymond Weil watches, DuPont fabrics, Cutty Sark whiskey, Sony Music, and Kodak. She has published two books, Breaking Bounds(1992) and Airborne (1998). Her black-and-white prints have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide.
Corniella Hediger Born in Switzerland, Cornelia Hediger lives and works in NYC. She has earned her BFA and MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Her images have been shown in exhibitions at the Center of Photography in Woodstock, PS122 Gallery in NYC, The International Center of Photography in NYC, Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Rutgers University in New Brunswick, and Massachusetts College of Art. In addition Hediger has shown her work abroad at the Gallery Del Mese-Fischer in Switzerland and Limilight9 in Halifax, Canada. Her photographs are in several private collections in Japan, Switzerland and North America.
Elizabeth Holmes was born in Brooklyn, New York and now divides her time between New York City and the Long Island's East End where she enjoys photographing local landscapes. She earned a B.A. at Fordham University and studied photography at the New School, the International Center for Photography, LaGuardia Community College, and The Center for Photography at Woodstock. Elizabeth has exhibited her infrared, hand-colored photographs in numerous galleries including New Century Artists, Elaine Benson Gallery, Gallery North, Kirkland Arts Center and East End Arts Council. Her work is included in the corporate collections of Latham & Watkins and Pfizer and in many private collections. She uses infrared film to create images that suggest a sense of timelessness and then hand paints them with oils and pencils to add an impressionistic quality. Elizabeth continues her long-term project documenting vanishing landscapes and creating photographs that connect the viewer to a sense of place. "I am always searching for visual references to the past and images that evoke strong memories".
Joelle Jensen completed both her MFA in Visual Arts and her MA in Contemporary Art Theory and Criticism at Purchase College, State University of New York in 2006. Her work reveals a dark sense of humor as she examines family life, memory and loss. Jensen received several awards for her series, "Repose," including first place from juror Paul Kopeikin at the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, WA and juror's choice from Leslie Bellavance at the Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery at Weber University. A selection of her work was recently published in Photo Review magazine. Jensen contributes regularly to NY Arts Magazine and is curating an exhibition at NURTUREart Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, which opens in December 2006.
Daniel Karlsson grew up in the south of Sweden, studied painting and did
competitive wrestling before coming to New York to study at the
International Center of Photography in 2001/2002. His work was shown in
2003 in a group show at Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, which continues to
represent his work. He has studied filmmaking in Los Angeles and has done
three series, one of nude self-portraits, one of young Swedish wrestlers he
trained with, and another of surfers in Los Angeles and Sweden.
Lisa Kereszi was born in 1973 in Chester, Pennsylvania and grew up in Suburban Philadelphia to a mother who ran an antique shop and to a father who ran the family auto junkyard. In 1995 she graduated from Bard College, w/ a concentration in Photography after double-majoring in photography and in Literature/Creative Writing.
After college she moved to New York City and worked as an assistant to Nan Goldin. In 2000, she received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Art. She lives in Brooklyn, working as an artist and freelance photographer. She is now on the faculty as a lecturer at the Yale School of Art.
Her work is in private collections and in that of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the Berkeley Art Museum. She is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, where she had a Winter 2005 solo show. She currently has a solo show at the Matrix Gallery at UC Berkeley, the latter as part of her 2005 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers.
Her editorial work has appeared in books and magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Nest, New York, Details, House & Garden and others. She was included in the 2003 list of the 30 top emerging photographers by Photo District News, and was granted a commission to photograph Governor's Island by the Public Art Fund in 2003, which culminated in shows at the Urban Center Gallery and the NYC Mayor's Office at City Hall and a book.
Mickey Kerr was born in Kansas City, MO., and raised in the suburb of Overland Park, KS.,
Mickey Kerr completed the General Studies program at NYC's International
Center of Photography in 2003. His work was most recently exhibited at M.Y.
Art Prospects in Chelsea, NYC. www.mickeykerr.com
Salma Khalil is an Egyptian artist who centers her new work around memories she
has of two of her many homes, one in Alexandria, Egypt and one in
Dubai, UAE. Her interest is to capture the fragility and vulnerability
that come with revisiting a personal history involving many moves and
many lost relationships. Her previous work explored her personal
struggle dealing with depression.
At 17, after having lived in Kuwait, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE,
she moved to the United States and received a BA in Journalism from
The George Washington University and an MFA in Photography from Pratt
Institute. She has an upcoming show in January at PS122 Gallery, 150
First Avenue.
Antonin Kratochvil is a world-renowned photojournalist and the recipient of numerous grants and awards. His photographs have been published worldwide in every significant magazine. Awards include the Leica Medal of Excellence (1994), ICP Journalist of the Year (1991), two first-place awards in the World Press Photo Awards (2002), and a grant from Aperture (2004) on the relationship of American civil liberties and the Homeland Securities Act. His fifth book, Vanishing, is a collection of photographs portraying the natural and human worlds on the verge of extinction. He was born in Czechoslovakia, and has extensively photographed the upheaval, strife, and changing world of Eastern Europe, which culminated in his book Broken Dreams. In his book Incognito, he photographed celebrities with psychological intensity. He is one of the co-founders of vii agency (www.viiphoto.com).
Kim Kremer grew up on a farm in southeast Iowa and has lived in New York City for four years. She recently began working on a documentary photography project about the effects of agribusiness on small towns in Henry County, Iowa.
Ghada Kunji received her B.F.A. degree from Parsons School of Design before continuing
her studies in a one-year course in documentary photography at I.C.P.
Since then she has worked as a research assistant at Magnum and Black Star picture
agencies. She has exhibited her work throughout New York City and placed her work
in many national and international shows.
She has recently been nominated "The Discovery of The Year"
at the Lucie Awards; which was held in New York City this October. She currently
resides in Brooklyn, New York.
Suzy Kunz, lived in Indianapolis IN until attending the University of
Colorado, Boulder for pre-med & BFA. Later, received an MFA from the Art
Institute of Chicago.
She has exhibited variously including at the Denver Art Museum & Art
Institute of Chicago, has been a visiting artist at The Kansas City Art
Institute and Carnegie Mellon University and has received grants from
Illinois Arts Council & Art Matters.
She just returned from an October residency at Yaddo.
Leigh Ledare is a photographer living and working in New York City. He is a
graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently in the Visual
Arts MFA program at Columbia University. His extrememly personal
photographic work investigates the dynamics of family, the commodification
of the self, and the slippage occuring between the real and the
performative.
Colleen Longo
This image was recently published in the Korean magazine MonthlyPhoto
(http://www.monthlyphoto.com/webzine/fgallery_view.asp?m_seq=9&s_seq=54&page)
along with other pieces from my most resent body of work entitled Tenacious Nostalgia.
The work documents my influential girlfriends and grandmother in their environments. The work is often dark and moody evoking a sense of mystery and displays my elusive memories surrounding my girl-hood. My approach towards gender identity and what is fantasy and what is reality is all intuitive; I collect un-posed moments that are obscured by darkness and movement creating an adoration for my subjects. In May of 2006 I received my MFA from Pratt Institute and graduated with Honors. I currently live in Williamsburg and am working at the Camera Club on this past summers body of work, where I traveled West, back home to continued documenting my muses.
Oz Lubling is a fine-art photographer based in New York City. He is a graduate of Brandeis University and the International Center of Photography. Oz's photographs depict psychological narratives that are open, often ambiguous and contain subtle elements allowing the viewer's imagination to explore a range of interpretations.
Joseph Maidalives and works as a photographer and video artist in New York City. He has had solo shows of his work in September 2002 and April 2004 at Wallspace Gallery in Manhattan. His photographs and videos have been shown in group exhibitions and screenings at the Queens Museum of Art, Art In General, Artists Space, and Riva Gallery as well as at numerous other locations, both regionally and internationally, including the Philadelphia Art Alliance, the Print Center, the University of the Arts (Philadelphia), the Society for Contemporary Photography (Kansas City, MO), Bucketrider (Chicago) The Reina Sofia (Madrid) Fylkingen (Stockholm), the Prenelle Gallery (London) and the Pro-Arte Center (St. Petersburg).
In 1999 he graduated, Summa Cum Laude, from Columbia University, and in 2001, he earned his MFA from Yale University. He has taught in the undergraduate photography program at the School of Visual Arts since September 2002 and has also been a guest lecturer at Yale University's School of Architecture, Parsons School of Design, and the International Center of Photography. He works regularly for publications including the New York Times Magazine, The London Telegraph, Details, New York Magazine and W. His editorial photographs have appeared in numerous periodicals around the world including Stern and Neon in Germany, Il Specchio (La Stampa) in Italy, The Scotsman in Scotland, Good Weekend in Australia, Veja in Brazil, and Feminain South Africa. In 2004, Photo District News named him among PDN's 30: Our Choice of Emerging Photographers to Watch. He recently joined the undergraduate adjunct photography faculty at Parsons in January 2006.
Jerome Mallman Although he has lived in New York City for the past four decades, he was born in Kohler, Wisconsin in 1931 and received a BA degree in French with an Art Minor from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1953. He pursued these interests traveling frequently to Paris and taking painting classes at the California School of Fine Arts S.F Institute of Art). He became interested in photography in 1967 and with a few interruptions began to work seriously at street photography and has continued for the past 20- years, honing his darkroom skills at the Camera Club of New York.
Besides exhibiting on a regular basis with his fellow camera club members, he was given a Camera Club of New York exhibition "Solitary Moments" in 1990. In 2004 his work was shown in an exhibition entitled "Smokers and Sleepers" at the Elvehjem Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. This show was accompanied by the publication of the book "Smokers and Sleepers" by the Elvehjem Museum of Art, 2004.
Stacy Arezou Mehrfar was raised in Port Washington, New York. Stacy earned her BA at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where she majored in both Film Production and English Literature. Upon returning to New York, Stacy worked as an assistant camera on various independent films. During this time she realized that what she lusted for was the perfect singular image so she left the world of motion pictures to focus on her passion for still photography. Stacy continued her studies and earned a degree from the International Center of Photography.
Her work has been printed in various publications including The New York Times Magazine, and has been collected by patrons throughout the United States. The body of work Manhattan, was featured in the Fotofestiwal, a festival in Lodz, Poland, and her project American Palimpsestswas chosen as a winner in the personal work category for the 2005 PDN Photo Annual. Stacy's images are included in the Barclay's Bank Emerging Artist Collection.
Stacy is a recipient of the Camera Club of New York Residency. She has also participated in two artist residencies at the Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd St Y.
Stacy Arezou Mehrfar continues to work and live in New York City.
Dana Miller earned her MFA from Bard College in 2005, her BFA, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA in 1996.
Dana had her first solo exhibition in New York at the Jen Bekman Gallery in
November 2004. She has been written about in the New York Times, the Village
Voice, Leica Fotografie International, and Art in America. She is in the
collection of VISA New York and is a recipient of the Camera Club of New
York's Residency program for 2006-2007. Dana currently lives and works in New
York City.
John Milisenda's photography has appeared in over 125 shows and many publications including Smithsonian and the New York Times. His works are in the permenant collections on New Orleans Musuem of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and Bibliotheque Nationale. He has taught basic photography,The Zone system and Photographic chemistry at Drexel University The New School and Parsons School of Design. He is currently working on a photography book of his family, a cross section of 35 years of work.
Alex Morel was born in New York in 1973, and spent part of his youth in the Dominican Republic. He studied at St. John's University in NY, completing his BFA in 1997, was part of the fulltime program in General Studies in Photography in ICP during 1994-1995, and finished the MFA program at Rutgers University in 2001. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally since 1997. In 2005, the "Fotomuseum Winterthur" in Switzerland presented the first solo survey of his work. Since 2000, he has taught photography and visual arts at university level, and has been a visiting artist at several educational and cultural institutions in the United States and abroad. He divides most of his time between the NY and the Caribbean, and is currently teaching at St. John's University.
Susanne Neunhoeffer graduated in 2000 from the documentary and photojournalism program at the International Center of Photography. Her work has been shown in New York, Mexico and France. In 2006 she participated in various group shows and festivals, including -Bearings:The Female Figure at PS122, Les Independances,an independent photographer's festival in Enghien-les-bains, France, and most recently in Passionate Attitudes, a show opening in November at the Center for Photography in Woodstock. In 2005, she had a solo exhibition at the County College of Morris and was published in Newsweek, following group exhibitions at the ICP and Arles photography festival in 2004. Her photographs are part of several private and institutional collections in North America and Europe.
Joanna Novelli was born in Rhode Island and graduated from the School of
Visual Arts in 2006. She lives in New York City and works as an assistant
at a photo agency.
Stuart O'Sullivan was born 1971 in Johannesburg, South Africa. lives and works in New York City. Stuart
studied Graphic Design for 3 years in South Africa and
in 1994 completed the General Studies program at the
International Center of Photography in New York. In
March 2002, he was selected for PDN's "30" issue. In
2005, Nazraeli Press published his first book, "How
Beautiful This Place Can Be". A second book is due to
be published in early 2008. He is represented by
Daniel Cooney Fine Art, in New York City. His work is
widely collected and has been exhibited in the United
States and South Africa. Stuart's pictures have
appeared in numerous magazines, including the New York
Times Magazine, TIME, Newsweek, W Magazine and his
work has been reviewed by the New Yorker, The Village
Voice, Art on Paper & BOMB magazines.
Sylvia Plachy's work has been exhibited internationally, in such
places as Budapest, Ljubljana, Manchester, Berlin, and Pingyau,
China, and is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern
Art, The Queens Museum, The Brooklyn Museum in New York, The George
Eastman House, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The Bibliotheque
Nationale in Paris, and The San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts. She
has had one-woman shows at the Whitney Museum, The Queens Museum, and
The Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts, among others.
Ms. Plachy is the recipient of a John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship.
She has been published in numerous magazines, including The New Yorker, Fortune,
Grand Street, Art Forum, The New York Times Magazine, Harpers Magazine and
Granta. For over eight years The Village Voice published a weekly uncaptioned,
black and white photograph of Plachy's work under the heading, "Sylvia Plachy's
Unguided Tour," which later became a book of the same title. Other books
Include "Signs and Relics" and "Self-Portrait with Cows Going Home".
Platon was born in London in 1968 where he attended St. Martin's School of
Art. After receiving his BA with honors in Graphic Design, he was then awarded an
MA in Photography and Fine Art at the Royal College of Art. While still a
student, he received British Vogue's Best Up-and-Coming Photographer? Award in
1992, along with the opportunity to contribute both fashion and portrait
images to the magazine.
Platon left London in 1998 after spending a few years working for George,
The magazine about politics and media culture founded by the late John F.
Kennedy, Jr. Recruited to shoot for its premiere issue, Platon maintained a long-term
relationship with the magazine and Kennedy, and this significant introduction to American culture and politics included one of Platon's favorite assignments: a cross-country trip in order to document the 20 most fascinating men in America.
Since the early 1990s, Platon has continued to shoot fashion, portrait and
documentary work for a range of international publications, including The
New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Harpers Bazaar, Esquire, GQ, Vanity
Fair, Newsweek, Premiere, Arena, The Face, i-D, The Sunday Telegraph, The Observer andThe Sunday Times. His advertising credits include campaigns for Motorola,
Nike, Converse, Verizon, Vittel, Levi's, IBM, Rolex, Ray-Ban, Tanqueray, Kenneth
Cole, Issey Miyake, Moschino, Timex, Verizon, and Bertelsmann among others.
In 2004 his first monograph "Platon's Republic" was published by Phaidon Press. He also had large solo portrait exhibitions at The Milk Gallery in NYC and the Ex-Saatchi Gallery in London. The first solo show of Platon's documentary work from around the world was held at the Leica Gallery in NYC. He also has been exhibited at Hamilton's Gallery in London, Spiral Hall in Tokyo and the Carla Sozzani Gallery in Milan.
Christopher Rauschenbergis a photographer who has had 78 solo shows in six countries. He is a co-founder and co-director of Blue Sky Gallery where he has co-curated and co-produced 581 solo exhibitions and 45 group shows and has edited and produced over 50 art and photography publications. He is a member and co-founder of the Nine Gallery and is the founder of the Portland Grid Project. He is a co-founder and past president of Photolucida, a major photography festival in Portland. His work can be be viewed at www.ChristopherRauschenberg.com
Michael Rauner is a San Francisco-based photographer, bookmaker,and installation artist. His fine art photographs have recently been published by Chronicle Books in The Visionary State: A Journey through California's Spiritual Landscape, a collaboration with author Erik Davis. He has shown his artwork at many venues, including Denver's Museum of Contemporary Art, George Eastman House, photo-eye Gallery, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, and Internationale Fototage in Germany. His artwork and handmade photographic books reside in numerous private and public collections, including the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Bancroft Library. His photographic work has also been published by City Lights Books in San Francisco: The Political Edge, by Steidl in Picturing Eden, and he is a contributing essayist SF Camerawork's recently published First Exposures. Additional information and portfolios of his work can be found at www.michaelrauner.com.
Peter Riesett was born in 1975 in Montclair, New Jersey and raised in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, where he received his B.F.A. in Photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1998. In 2002, he earned his M.F.A. in Photography from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
His attraction to photography started as a young boy fascinated by the ability of a simple snapshot to have meaning beyond the image. Over time, that interest in the story-behind-the-picture led him to adopt a straightforward, documentary approach to his subjects with the large format camera. Investigating spaces, questioning reality, and documenting the colorful mundane has become his obsession. Inspiration comes from his immediate surroundings, family and friends, and the "personalities" that are often revealed through everyday objects, irony and juxtapositions. His images often transcend personal attachments and anthropologically delve into facets of American culture.
His work has been exhibited in various group shows nationally and internationally. Images from his series "Testament" have recently been included in two international photography festivals: Kaunas Photo Days 06, F Galerija, Lithuania and Meeting with the Middle East: 9th International Photography Gathering, Le Pont Art Gallery, Syria. His most notable group exhibitions include: Riesett and Verberg, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA (2006), 24th Annual Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX ('Curators' Choice' Distinction) (2006), Bystander, Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC (2002), Now Serving, Art in General, NYC (2002), Riesett and Krivitsky, P.S. 122 Gallery, NYC (2002), Mint, Brooklyn Front Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2001), and Artists' Books, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NYC (2000). His work resides in various private collections and has most recently become part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
Saul Robbins is interested in the ways in which people move through, relate to, and occupy their surroundings, especially the intersection of private and public experience in urban environments. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally, and can be viewed online at www.saulrobbins.com. His work has been published in TAD, The CPW Photography Quarterly, Zeek, Wired Magazine, Aufbau, San Francisco Photo Metro, and the Berlin Tagesspiegel. In 1998, Robbins was awarded a NICA Stipendium to study on exchange at Berlin's Hoch Schule der Kunste He is presently curating Regarding Intimacy, for The Karl and Bertha Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College, in New York City (March, 2007). In 2002, he was co-curator of No Live Girls, an installation of artist's videos at The Lusty Lady in San Francisco and Seattle (www.nolivegirls.org). He lives and works in New York City, where he received his MFA from Hunter College.
Francesca Romeo graduated from Pratt Institute with a dual Master's degree
in
Photography and Art History. Her work is primarily concerned with themes
relating to intimacy, addiction and vulnerability. Her first solo show
debuted
this year at A.M. Richards Gallery in Williamsburg."
Monica Ruzansky was born in Mexico City, and obtained a BA in Communications at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico. She did her Photography studies at Escuela Activa de Fotograf’a, Mexico, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico, and The Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA.
Her work is part of the project ABCDF: Graphic Dictionary of Mˇxico City and the Espias Books Collection, which will soon be published. She has been recently selected to exhibit at PS122 Gallery in NYC, the XII Mexican Photography Biennial in Mexico City where she received a Honorable Mention, and the Visual Arts Biennial in Yucatan.
Keisha Scarville is a Brooklyn native and graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology,
who weaves together themes dealing with memory and transformation,
often photographing her family and common everyday objects.
Scarville's work has been exhibited and published nationally. Her
work has been included in exhibitions at Ty Stokes Gallery (Atlanta,
GA) and in New York City at the Latin Art Collector Gallery, Ken
Keleba Gallery, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art. In addition, her work
has appeared in Camera Arts Magazine, Time Magazine, Vibe, Nylon, and
The New York Times. Keisha's work is included in various public and
private collections including the Smithsonian American art Museum and
the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Currently Keisha balances her time between working for various youth arts organizations and her own personal projects.
Robert A. Schaefer, Jr. was born and raised in Cullman, Alabama before moving to Munich, Germany in the middle1970's. In 1981, He moved to New York City where he continues to live and work. Apple Inc. hosted his seminars for fine-art photographers in the late 1990's. They were also one of the sponsors for Schaefer's 25-Year Retrospective (RASJr25) held at the Huntsville Museum of Fine Arts 1999 - 2000 in Huntsville, Alabama. The Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania exhibited Schaefer's cyanotypes last year.
A current project "Two Sides of the Coin" takes a look at his German heritage and the Holocaust. The DeFrog Gallery in Houston, Texas exhibited it during March, April and May during Fotofest this year. Most recently he was invited by the Montgomery Museum of Art in Montgomery, AL to exhibit in November/December 2007 his documentation of an Alabama farmer. His work is found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Bibliothˇque Nationale in Paris, France. Schaefer also writes about photography for Fotophile Magazine in New York City, The Photo Review in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the on-line publication Double Exposure (www.photoworkshop.com). He teaches photography at New York University.
Beowulf Sheehanhas studied at New York University, The International
Center of Photography,
and overseas. He creates portraits of figures from the worlds
of music, fashion, literature, and other creative fields. His work has
appeared in publications such as Harper_s Bazaar (Japan), The
New York
Times, Variety, and Vogue Nippon and been employed
by the likes of E!,
Furla, and Microsoft. The son of a New York-born Mariner and a
Hamburg-born linguist, Beowulf Sheehan resides in New York and is
represented by Velour Management.
Stephen Schuster is in his early twenties and is hungry to work hard and move forward. A new York City native, Stephen's first meaningful photo essay was a series documenting Brooklyn's Subway tunnels and the graffiti writers who explore them. Stephen has had shown in exhibitions in Brooklyn, Berlin, and Chelsea and is presently the photo editor at Mass Appeal Magazine. If you'd like to see some more of his work, google his name or go to www.underthesurface.org.
Jo Shane explores the ephemerality of youth and the emergence of identity in young teens. Her work has been informed by her own children as well as skaters, surfers and their extended social networks in various locales. Her photographs seek to capture the natural unguarded moments and the almost tribal connections that are so rare in the adult world. Over the last few years, she has shown her work in independent venues both in Manhattan and Williamsburg as well as donating work to various auctions. Additionally, her photographs are currently included in two prominent collections.
Jerry Sheik is a portrait photographer based in New York City. He photographs for the corporate world as well as for entertainers and individual commissions.
Jerry's work has appeared regularly in business magazines newspapers and magazines both in the United States and in Europe.
For the past six years, he has been working on a project documenting the circus and has traveled with many circuses both here and abroad. His work has been exhibited in solo shows at: Maison Francaise Gallery at Columbia University NYC, Selby Gallery at the Ringling School Of Art Sarasota Florida, Tulla Booth Gallery in Sag Harbor NY, an upcoming show at the Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, Connecticut, as well as group shows including the Leica Galley "Witness to the Century" NYC.
Erin Siegal is a young photographer specializing in editorial and
documentary photography. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Time
Out New York, The Indypendent, and many other magazines and newspapers.
Based in New York City, Erin has studied at the School of Visual Arts,
Parsons School of Design, and Harvard University. She worked as an
assistant to James Nachtwey before becoming a freelancer in New York. She
works for a diverse group of clients, including Reuters, the Urban Justice
Center, and the United Nations.
Her personal work has been shown in venues including the A.I.R Gallery, the
Boston Photo Collaborative, Project Diversity: Brooklyn, Stepping Stone
Gallery, Bluestockings, the Knitting Factory, New School University, Danny
Simmon's Corridor Gallery, the Brecht Forum, Locus Media Gallery, and the
Jen Bekman Gallery in Soho.
Richard Silberman,b. 1965, grew up in South Bend, IN, earned a journalism
degree from Northwestern University and studied photography at the
International Center of Photography between 1989 and 1999. His work has been
shown at many venues including the PS 122 Gallery in New York, The Print
Center in Philadelphia, the Photographic Resource Center at Boston
University, the Hampden Gallery in Amherst, MA and various travelling
exhibitions with the Pierogi 2000 Flat Files. Silberman was selected to
participate in the Emerge 2003 Artist Development Program at Aljira, A
Center for Contemporary Art, in Newark, NJ--where his photographs were also
shown. His work is in the permanent collections of the Cygnet Foundation
and George Eastman House.
Keith Sirchio is a Brooklyn-based documentary photographer with a background in cinematography. Whether traveling in Asia, Russia, South America, or on the streets of New York, he uses the camera to explore and find moments that distinguish individuals or define cultures. Illuminating moments that may
go unnoticed by the average eye. He's currently working on various
long-term projects with themes dealing with machismo and confrontation.
Alison Slein's photographs have been shown throughout
the United States and in Cuba. In 2004, she was
awarded a NYFA Fellowship for Photography from the New
York Foundation for the Arts. She is also the
recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from the
Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts.
Anthony Troncale (b. 1958- Houston, TX) has a BFA in photography from the University of
Texas, Austin and an MLS from Pratt Institute. His photos are in the permanent collections of the New York
Public Library, The Ellis Island Museum of Immigration and the Univ. of Texas/Austin. He has worked in the photography colections of the New York Public Library, The Museum of Modern Art, the American Museum of Natural History and the Harry Ransom Center, Univ. of Texas/Austin.
Gerard Vezzuso
* Winner of the 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts Special Projects Grant. Photographs collected by the Brooklyn Museum of Art and The Museum of the City of New York. Exhibited and published widely including 'Double-Take' magazine. Published book 'New American Haircuts'
Faculty Teachers College, School of Visual Arts, and ICP.
Formally master color printer. Clients included Gregory Crewdson, Philip Lorca di Corcia, Tina Barney.
Currently working in video art.
http://photos.yahoo.com/vezzusofoto
Marc Yankus' fine art and published experience span a period of more than twenty-five years. His work has been included in exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; Exit Art, New York City; The Library of Congress, Washington, DC; and recently at ClampArt, New York City. Yankus' artwork has graced the covers of books by Salman Rushdie, Philip Roth, and Alan Hollinghurst, among many others. His images have also been used for theatrical posters for such acclaimed Broadway shows as Jane Eyre; August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; and John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize winning play, Doubt. Additionally, Yankus' photographs have appeared both on the covers and inside the pages of numerous publications ranging from The Atlantic Monthly to Photo District News.
Bernard Yenelouis is a photographer and writer living in Brooklyn. His
work was recently seen in a solo show, "Shelter", at the Kristi Engle
Gallery
in Los Angeles. Yenelouis' work will be in a group show at Momenta Art in
Brooklyn, "Weak Foundations", curated by Eric Heist and Michael Ashkin,
which opens in December 2006, and his work will also be seen in the
Bridge Art Fair in Miami, December 2006. Yenelouis' writing has been
published in Bomb, Artwurl, and The Art Book. He teaches black-&-white
darkroom and photographic history and theory at the International Center
of Photography.
JeongMee Yoon was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1969, grew up in Seoul, South Korea, moved to New York in 2004, and works in New York. She received her BFA in Painting from The Seoul National University, South Korea, MFA in Photo Design form the Hongik University, South Korea, and MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media from The School of Visual Arts. She participated in the Ssamzie Sutdio Program in Seoul, South Korea. She is participating in The International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Manhattan, New York. She is preparing The Pink and Blue Project solo exhibition, which is supported by Daum Prize, Geonhi Arts Foundation for May 2007 in Seoul, Korea. She received Aaron Siskind Scholarship, Paula Rhodes Memorial Award, and received honorable mention at the Santa Fe Center for Photography. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Seoul, South Korea, and the U.S.A. Her work is in the Johnnson and Johnson Collection, and Ssamzie Art Space.
Shigeki Yoshida was born in Ibaraki, a suburb of Tokyo, Japan in 1963. Shigeki studied painting at Wako University in Tokyo. After graduation, he pursued his early career as a painter and had several solo and group shows in Japan, Korea and Thailand. In 1997, he was awarded a fellowship by the Japanese government and came to New York. He enrolled in Hunter College's MFA program where he studied photography with the late Prof. Mark Feldstein and Prof. Roy DeCarava. and also studied with Prof. Katharina Siverding at UDK in Berlin as an exchange student. Shigeki earned his MFA in 2005, and now lives and works in Brooklyn. Shigeki will be having his first one man show in the US Jan.25 - Feb.24, 2007 at Safe - T Gallery, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY.