Current & Previous Photo Soup Participants
Photo Soup 1 Participants (2022)
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image|portrait|# Joshua Chuang is a curator, editor, writer, and bookmaker who has held leadership roles at the Yale University Art Gallery, the Center for Creative Photography, and the New York Public Library. Among his projects are the retrospective exhibitions and publications Robert Adams: The Place We Live; Judith Joy Ross: Photographs 1978–2015; Santu Mofokeng: Stories; and Taryn Simon’s The Color of a Flea’s Eye: The Picture Collection, all of which exhibit his commitment to activating archives. In addition, he has worked with Mark Ruwedel, Lee Friedlander, and Kikuji Kawada on key monographs of their work.
He served as chair of the 2022 Hasselblad Award Jury. As of 2023 Chuang is the Director of Photography at Gagosian.
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Jessica Johnston is a curator, photography specialist and arts administrator. She is the Executive Director at Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, where she oversees the operations and strategic vision for the organization. VSW is a nonprofit organization, founded in 1969, that supports expansive and experimental approaches to photography, film, and media arts through exhibitions, publications, and artist residencies. Prior to joining VSW in 2014, Johnston was the Assistant Curator of Photographs at George Eastman Museum for eight years. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management from Toronto Metropolitan University/Ryerson University (2006).
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Daile Kaplan is a scholar, author, collector, and photographic specialist with extensive experience in auctions and appraisals. The founder and principal since 2020 of Daile Kaplan Appraisals, Advisory and Brokerage, she was, for thirty years, Vice President and Director of Photographs and Photobooks at Swann Galleries. She was the photography specialist on the popular PBS television program Antiques Roadshow (1993–2022) and has been a commentator for the History Channel, HG-TV, Plum TV, and City TV. Kaplan is the author of Lewis Hine in Europe: The “Lost” Photographs (Abbeville, 1988) and Photo Story: Selected Letters and Photographs of Lewis W. Hine (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991).
She has contributed essays to Appraising Art: The Definitive Guide to Appraising Fine and Decorative Arts, edited by Wendell Garrett; Photography Changes Everything (Aperture), edited by Marvin Heiferman; and The Education of a Photographer (Allworth Press), co-edited by Charles Traub, Steven Heller, and Adam Bell. At Swann Galleries, Kaplan organized sales of classical and contemporary photographs and out-of-print photobooks, setting world auction records for numerous nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographers. She also introduced sales dedicated to vernacular photography. Independently, Kaplan has created a personal collection of decorative and functional objects highlighted with photographs, for which she coined the name Pop Photographica.
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William Earle Williams is the Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Fine Arts, and Curator of Photography at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. Williams’s photographs have been widely exhibited, including in group and solo exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the George Eastman House, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the National Gallery of Art, Smith College, and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. His work is represented in many public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the National Gallery of Art. Williams has received individual artist fellowships from the Pew Fellowships in the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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Alison Nordström, curator, scholar, former Senior Curator of Photographs at George Eastman House
Diana Stoll, writer, curator, photobook editor, former Senior Editor of Aperture magazine
Photo by Joanne Chan
Photo Soup 2 Participants (2023)
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Mary Engel has directed the Ruth Orkin Photo Archive from its inception in 1985 and has directed the Engel/Orkin Film and Photography Archive since 2005. She has worked extensively with photography galleries, museums, and the independent film industry, and in 2000 founded the American Photography Archives Group (APAG). Engel has published three photography catalogs on her mother and contributed the introduction and served as co-editor on the book Ruth Orkin: A Photo Spirit (Hatje Cantz, 2021). Engel’s 1996 film Ruth Orkin: Frames of Life premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as an Outstanding Documentary of 1996; and her 2008 film Morris Engel: The Independent premiered on Turner Classic Movies.
Engel has lectured at the National Arts Club; Washington University in St. Louis (her alma mater); the East Bay Photo Collective; Harvard University; the St. Louis Art Museum; and the Brooklyn Historical Society. She has participated on panels at POWarts, Photoville, and the Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies, and in 2017 received the Griffin Museum of Photography’s Focus Spotlight Award. Engel completed the Seminar on Strategy for Artist-Endowed Foundation Leaders presented by the Aspen Institute Artist-Endowed Foundations Initiative. She is the Executive Director of APAG, which is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2025, and she wrote and published The Photo Archive Handbook: What You Need to Know.
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Danielle Jackson is a critic, researcher, and arts administrator. As the co-founder and former co-director of the Bronx Documentary Center, a photography gallery and educational space, she helped conceive, develop, and implement the organization’s mission and programs. Formerly, she ran the Cultural Department at Magnum Photos NY. Jackson has taught courses in photography and visual culture at the Museum of Modern Art, Stanford in New York, the New School, and New York University. Her writing and reporting have appeared in numerous arts publications.
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Elizabeth Krist was a photography editor at National Geographic for over 20 years and is now on the boards of Women Photograph and of the W. Eugene Smith Fund. She often works with CatchLight and with the Eddie Adams Workshop. A founding member of the Visual Thinking Collective, she teaches for ICP and regularly judges grants and competitions. She curated the Women of Vision exhibition and book, and co-curated four Photoville installations. She has freelanced for the New Yorker and Magnum Photos, and co-curated CatchLight’s 2023 Visual Storytelling Summit. Honors include the John Durniak Mentor Award from NPPA, and recognition from POYi, Overseas Press Club, and Communication Arts. Recently she has collaborated with Magnum Foundation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Apple, and the Joop Swart Masterclass for World Press.
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María Martínez-Cañas is an artist who works with non-traditional photographic media. Born in Cuba and raised in Puerto Rico, she received a BFA in photography from the Philadelphia College of Art and an MFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Martínez-Cañas’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. She is the recipient of the Oolite Arts Michael Richards Award (2020); a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Photography Fellowship (2016); a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship (2014); a Cintas Fellowship; a National Endowment for the Arts award; and a Fulbright-Hays Grant, among others. Her works are included in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou in Paris; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; and the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC, among many other institutions. She lives and works in Miami.
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Tracey Morgan is the owner and director of the Tracey Morgan Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina. She began her career as a curatorial associate at Eaton Fine Art, Florida, contributing to exhibitions such as John Marin: The Sea and Forever Young: Children in Photographs, among others. Morgan continued her career in New York City, where she served as Associate Director at both Yancey Richardson Gallery and Pace/MacGill Gallery. In 2017 she opened the Tracey Morgan Gallery, which specializes in contemporary art and photography by emerging and established artists. The gallery has been featured in publications such as Harper’s Magazine, Wallpaper, Musée Magazine, AnOther, Photograph, and Juxtapoz. Artists featured at the gallery include Laura Letinsky, Stacy Kranitz, McNair Evans, and many others. Morgan received her BA in art history from Florida State University. She currently serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the College of Fine Art, Florida State University, and the Collections Council for the Bardo Art Center at Western Carolina University.
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Paula Tognarelli is a cultural administrator who served from 2007 to 2022 as executive director of the Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts, where she began in 2001 as an intern and eventually served as Deputy Director, producing on average more than fifty exhibitions a year. Tognarelli has frequently reviewed at national and local portfolio events and has jumpstarted hundreds of photographers’ careers. After her retirement from the Griffin she co- founded Firestarters, an initiative that services creatives and the creative industry.
Prior to her career as an arts administrator, Tognarelli worked for twenty-five years in the graphic arts industry, initially as a craftsperson and eventually as VP of operations for a company that included twelve printing companies across the United States. In the late 1990s, Printing Impressions magazine named Tognarelli one of twelve women in the United States who had contributed to major digital advances and workflows in the printing and graphic arts industries. She holds an MS in arts administration from Boston University and a BA from Regis College and is a graduate of the New England School of Photography. She has juried and curated more than a hundred exhibitions and awards for institutions nationally and internationally.
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Alison Nordström, curator, scholar, former Senior Curator of Photographs at George Eastman House
Diana Stoll, writer, curator, photobook editor, former Senior Editor of Aperture magazine
Photo by Joanne Chan
Photo Soup 3 Participants (2024)
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David Hilliard is a contemporary photographer known for his panoramic photographs. He creates large-scale narrative multi-paneled color photographs, often based on his life or the lives of people around him. He is widely published and exhibits nationally and internationally. Hilliard received his MFA from Yale University and has won numerous awards, including a Fulbright grant and a Guggenheim fellowship. His photographs are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the George Eastman Museum, the collection of Sir Elton John, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the National Portrait Gallery, among many others.
Hilliard was for many years a professor at Yale School of Art, where he directed the undergraduate photography and served as a critic in the graduate photography department. He is regular visiting faculty at Harvard University, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and Lesley University, and leads photography workshops throughout the country. He has also made work for the New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, and Vogue Hommes Paris, and recently was lead photographer for Coca Cola’s “Together Is Better” global campaign. His work appears in many monographs and publications, and is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, and Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA.
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Anne Leighton Massoni is Executive Director of the Houston Center for Photography in Texas. Before joining HCP, she was the Dean and Managing Director of Education at the International Center of Photography in New York City. She has held professor and academic administrative positions including at Cornell University and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, among others. Massoni graduated with an MFA in photography from Ohio University and BAs in photography and anthropology from Connecticut College. She co-edited The Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography (Routledge, 2018). Her photographic practice relates to ideas of both real and fabricated memories and identity, using a variety of film and digital techniques.
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Lorie Novak is an artist and Professor Emerita of Photography and Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of Arts. Her photo-based works, installations, and web projects use technologies of representation to explore issues of memory and transmission, presence and absence, shifting cultural meanings of photographs, and the relationship between the intimate and the public. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. Novak has been awarded residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, Bogliasco Foundation, MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Djerassi Foundation. Her work has been shown in numerous national and international exhibitions and her photographs are in museum collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Center for Creative Photography, the Jewish Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. Novak’s web project collectedvisions.net(1996–present), exploring how family photographs shape our memory, was one of the earliest web-based interactive storytelling sites. During her tenure at NYU, she founded and directed Tisch Future Imagemakers, which offers a free photography workshop to New York City–area teens. Novak lives and works in Brooklyn.
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Vivian Poey is Professor of Photography and Integrated Studies at Lesley University. Before her current position, she taught extensively in art education and arts-integrated teacher-preparation programs across the country. As an artist and educator, Poey focuses on art as a form of investigation. Her photographic work addresses the junctures between personal narratives and historical issues, especially those dealing with cultural identities, memory, and displacement. Her work has been exhibited widely in both group and solo exhibitions and has been featured in publications such as Fraction magazine. Poey has served as a juror and curator for exhibitions including Crossing Borders: Personal Narratives of Immigration at the Sandra and Phillip Gordon Gallery and at Lesley University’s Parker Gallery. She has worked extensively at the intersection of arts and education and has co-authored and co-edited books including Art as a Way of Listening: Centering Student and Community Voices in Language Learning and Cultural Revitalization (Routledge, 2023). She is the recipient of the 2017 Massachusetts Art Education Association Higher-Educator of the Year Award. Poey received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Tom Rankin is Professor of the Practice of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Previously director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, he currently heads Duke’s Master of Fine Arts program in Experimental and Documentary Arts. Rankin received his BA in history from Tufts University, an MA in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an MFA in photography from Georgia State University. A photographer and writer, Rankin has been published widely in numerous magazines, journals, and books.
His publications include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (UP Mississippi, 1993); Faulkner’s World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain (UP Mississippi, 1997); Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (Norton, 2000); One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia (UNC Press, 2013); and, with his wife, Jill McCorkle, Goat Light (Horse & Buggy Press, 2021). Rankin’s work is included in the collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Library of Congress, the Archive of Documentary Arts, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, among many other private and museum collections.
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Guy Michel Telemaque is a member of the Visual Art and Design faculty and Director of the Sandra and Phillip Gordon Art Gallery at the Boston Arts Academy, the city's only public high school for the visual and performing arts. Telemaque was born in Queens, New York, grew up in Miami, and received his Bachelor of Arts in fine art from Flagler College and his MFA in photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He has been an instructor at the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies, the Southeast Museum of Photography, and Massachusetts College of Art. His work has been exhibited nationally and is in the collection of the Southeast Museum of Photography. His awards include an artist fellowship from the Surdna Foundation, a Power of Art Fellowship from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, a Community Legacy Project Fellowship, a Perrone-Sizer Institute for Creative Leadership Fellowship, and Distinguished Educator of the Year (along with the other members of the BAA Visual Arts Department) from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
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Alison Nordström, curator, scholar, former Senior Curator of Photographs at George Eastman House
Diana Stoll, writer, curator, photobook editor, former Senior Editor of Aperture magazine
Photo by Joanne Chan
Photo Soup 4 Participants (2025)
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Mike Belleme is a self-taught, Appalachian-born documentary photographer living in Asheville, North Carolina. His work explores connection and community by considering the seen and unseen forces that dictate how we perceive each other and the world around us. Belleme’s assignment work focuses primarily on the rural southeastern United States, and has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Time, Guardian, National Geographic, Atlantic, LA Times, Le Monde, NPR, CNN, NBC, ProPublica, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Esquire, Outside, Fortune, Stern, and many more. His first book, Mise-en-Scène (Oro Editions, 2021), a collaboration with urbanist Chris Reed, explores the implications of design at a variety of scales for urban life and ecology.
Belleme’s community outreach efforts include mentorship of young photographers, and board service for Maker’s Circle, an Asheville arts non-profit. He is co-founder of two photography communities: Six Feet Photography, formed to share work and build community during the Covid-19 pandemic, and Kinship Photography, a group designed to create community and resources for lens-based artists using their craft to deepen their relationships with the natural world.
Belleme has been recognized by Pictures of the Year International, American Photography, Indie Book Awards, ASME Photography and Illustration Awards, and Urbanautica Institute. He has participated in group exhibitions and lectures throughout the United States and held solo exhibitions in North Carolina, Virginia, Hawaii, and Georgia.
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Gail Buckland is an author, curator, and educator. In the early 1970s she was the curator of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain and helped organize the exhibition From Today Painting Is Dead: The Beginnings of Photography at the Victoria & Albert Museum (1972); her first book, Reality Recorded: Early DocumentaryPhotography was based on the exhibition. In 1975 she co-authored with Cecil Beaton The Magic Image: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present. She has written books on Fox Talbot; early photography of the Middle East; crime and forensic photography; and the histories of rock and roll photography and of sports photography.
She collaborated with Harold Evans on The American Century and They Made America, From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: 200 Years of Innovators, which was also a WGBH television series. She worked with Al and Tipper Gore on The Spirit of Family and did the photographic research for Al Gore’s PowerPoint documentary and book An Inconvenient Truth. She has curated major exhibitions for the Imperial War Museum, the Morgan Library, the Brooklyn Museum, the New-York Historical Society, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Buckland has taught the history of photography at Cooper Union; Sarah Lawrence College; Columbia College, Chicago; and Pratt Institute.
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Vincent Cianni is a documentary photographer, educator, and organizer whose work explores social justice through image, text, and audio. Cianni holds an MFA in photography from SUNY New Paltz, is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Parsons School of Design, and the founder and director of the grassroots, community-based Newburgh Community Photo Project. The Archive for Documentary Arts (Duke University) established a study archive of his photographic work in 2007.
We Skate Hardcore (NYU Press/Center for Documentary Studies, 2004) was awarded the American Association of University Presses’ Best Book Design, and a major survey of this work was exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York in 2006. Gays in the Military, an investigation into the effects of the military’s ban on the lives and careers of LGBT service members, was published by Daylight Books in May 2014 and was featured in the New York Times Sunday Review and The Katie Couric Show. He presented at TEDx University of Nevada (2015) and has lectured on his work at the Library of Congress, the American Psychiatric Association, OutServe/SLDN Leadership Conference, and in many photographic, gallery, and museum venues. Cianni’s photographs are collected and have appeared in numerous national and international collections and publications.
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Yolanda Cuomo is the principal/creative director of Yolanda Cuomo Design in Weehawken, New Jersey. Her clients include leading publishers, museums, authors, editors, artists, and photographers with whom she and her team work to design and create books, exhibitions, and other cultural and commercial projects. Recent projects include Larry Fink’s Hands On/A Passionate Life of Looking (Powerhouse Books, 2024); Magnum Photos: America/The United States (Thames & Hudson, 2024); and Gilles Peress’s Whatever You Say, Say Nothing (Steidl, 2021). She has created photobooks and exhibitions for countless others, including Susan Meiselas, Steve McCurry, Pete Souza, Paolo Pellegrin, and Diane Arbus.
In 2013 Cuomo was profiled in the film Let’s Make a Book of This (a New Yorker production) and was featured on Time magazine’s LightBox in “Profile of a Curatorial Master: Yolanda Cuomo.” She received a National Magazine Award in 2004 from the American Society of Magazine Editors for her art direction of Aperture, and ICP Infinity Awards in 1995 and 2004. She has been recognized by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Society of Publication Designers, the Art Directors Club, and Magazine Publishers of America.
Cuomo leads courses in design and book-making at New York University. She has lectured at the Yale’s Beinecke Library, Parsons School of Design/The New School, the School of Visual Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and elsewhere. She has taught workshops at the Magnum Foundation, Officine Fotografiche in Rome, the Photographic Center Northwest, the International Center of Photography, and LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph. Cuomo has a BFA from Cooper Union. Photo by Bonnie Briant
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Jean Dykstra is a photography critic, freelance editor, and the former editor of photograph magazine. In addition to working with many writers and photographers from the US and abroad, she wrote regularly for the magazine, including profiles of curators and a regular column on emerging photographers. Together with the magazine’s publisher, she oversaw the transition of photograph from a print publication to an online magazine in 2022. She has served as a juror for numerous photography competitions, most recently Soho Photo’s National Competition, and she has written about photography for such publications as the New York Review of Books, Brooklyn Rail, Dear Dave, Art in America, and Pioneer Works’ online magazine Broadcast.
She has also written essays for numerous books and monographs, including Vera Lutter: Fragments of Time Past (Gagosian), Running Falling Flying Floating Crawling (Saint Lucy Books), Kathy Shorr: Limousine (Lazy Dog Press), A Trilogy: Jessica Backhaus (Kehrer Verlag), and Kaos: Albert Watson (Taschen). Dykstra holds a BA in English literature from Rutgers University, an MA in Visual Anthropology from Temple University, and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.
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Wendel A. White has taught photography at the School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union, and the Rochester Institute of Technology, and is currently Distinguished Professor of Art & American Studies at Stockton University. He earned his BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York and an MFA in photography from the University of Texas at Austin.
White’s awards and fellowships include an honorary doctor of arts from Oakland University; a Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from the Peabody Museum, Harvard University; a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in photography; four artist’s fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, as well as residencies at Monuments Lab, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and the Arts Council of Princeton. White’s work is in various collections, including the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Peabody Museum (Harvard), and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Recent projects include Manifest: Thirteen Colonies, Red Summer, Schools for the Colored, Village of Peace: An African American Community in Israel, Small Towns, Black Lives, and others.
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Elin Spring is the founder and editor of the online photography review magazine What Will You Remember? and a contributing writer to magazines, exhibition catalogs, and photography books. She serves as juror for photography competitions such as Critical Mass and The FENCE, curates exhibitions, teaches writing workshops, and conducts portfolio reviews at national photography festivals, highlighting newly discovered work online. In 2014 her photography writing was recognized with the Scribe FOCUS Award from the Griffin Museum of Photography. Before concentrating full-time on WWYR?, for over two decades she specialized in professional portraiture in and around Boston. An active member of the Photographic Resource Center (Cambridge, MA), the Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester, MA), and the Marblehead Arts Association (MA), Spring earned her bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from University of Pennsylvania.
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Alison Nordström, curator, scholar, former Senior Curator of Photographs at George Eastman House
Diana Stoll, writer, curator, photobook editor, former Senior Editor of Aperture magazine
Photo by Joanne Chan