Meet the faculty...
Owner, Printer, Gotham Imaging
Curator, Writer Susan Bright is well known internationally for her contributions to the photographic world as commentator, exhibition curator and author. Previous posts include Assistant Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery (London), Curator at the Association of Photographers and Acting Director for the MA Photography (Historic and Contemporary) at Sotheby’s Institute, London. While based in London, Bright curated the 2007 exhibition ‘Face of Fashion’ for Britain’s National Portrait Gallery. Later the same year, she was co-curator of the landmark exhibition ‘How We Are: Photographing Britain’ at Tate Britain. Her interviews, essays and reviews have appeared in Aperture, Contemporary, European Photo and American Photo. As an author, Bright is best known for Art Photography Now. Her most recent book, Auto Focus: The Self Portrait in Contemporary Photography, will be out in the fall of 2010.
Elinor Carucci is an Israeli-born photographer who lives and works in New York City. She received her BFA from Bezalel Academy in 1995. Carucci’s photographs explore her relationship with those closest to her, particularly her immediate family. She has had solo shows at the Herzila Museum for Contemporary Art, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Fifty One Dine Art Gallery and Gagosian Gallery, London among others. Her Photographs are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, ICP, The Jewish Museum, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and others. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, including an eight-page portfolio in May 2005, and in The New Yorker, Details, New York Magazine, W, Aperture, ArtNews and others. She is the recipient of many awards including the ICP Infinity Award (2001), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2002). Two books of her photographs have been published, Closer, Chronicle Books 2002 and A Diary of a Dancer, SteidlMack 2005 Carucci is currently teaching in the School of Visuals Arts and is represented by James Hyman Gallery, London and i2i agency, in New York.
Art Director, Harper's Magazine
Photographer Jessica, an award-winning Documentary photographer, is a New York City native. Jessica worked as a public school teacher in Brooklyn for three years before pursuing photography. Since graduating for the International Center of Photography, Jessica has won numerous international awards, including the F Award for Concerned Photography, Magnum’s Inge Morath Award, the Juror’s Choice Award from the Santa Fe Center of Photography and from Photo District News. In the fall of 2007 Jessica’s first book, The Ninth Floor, was published in Italy and the USA. Jessica had her first solo exhibition at Forma, The International Center of Photography in Milan. She has had solo exhibitions at Foam, The Photography Museum of Amsterdam, Foley Gallery in New York, and Locuslux Gallery in Belgium, as well as being part of numerous group shows including an exhibit at The Aperture Foundation and Kunsthaus Museum in Dresden Jessica works as a freelance photographer on domestic and international assignments. Her work has appeared in numerous books and publications, including Aperture, The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, New York Magazine, The British Journal of Photography and Photoicon. Jessica is currently based in Brooklyn.
Assistant Editor, Aperture (books & magazine)
Curator, Founder, Humble Arts Foundation Jon Feinstein is a photographer and curator based in NYC. His work has been exhibited throughout the United Stated, most recently in “The Art of Photography” juried by Charlotte Cotton, “Revisiting America” at Bond Street Gallery and “Various Photographs” which was part of the 2008 NY Photo Festival. He was a recent winner of Magenta Foundation’s 2009 “Flash Forward” publication, and his work has also been published by Gotham, Nylon, New York Press, and Vice Magazine. As the Curatorial Director of Humble Arts Foundation, He has organized numerous exhibitions throughout the metropolitan area, and recently oversaw the curation of Humble’s publication “The Collectors guide to Emerging Art Photography” Jon holds a BA in Photography from Bard College.
Michael Foley opened Foley Gallery in the fall of 2004 after several years of working with notable photography galleries including Fraenkel Gallery, Howard Greenberg Gallery and Yancey Richardson Gallery. He is on the faculty of Parsons School of Design and the School of Visual Arts where he teaches and lectures on issues in contemporary photography.
Kris Graves is the director of +KRIS GRAVES PROJECTS, a commercial project space in DUMBO, Brooklyn. The space works with all works on paper artists and represents a group of emerging and mid-career photographers. The gallery has done art fairs in Miami and Spain, and will be traveling to London this year. Kris Graves received his BFA in visual arts from Purchase College in 2004, and works as the collections photographer at the Guggenheim Museum, as well as freelance and fine art photography. He also works as editor of Iris Editions, Ltd., a project dedicated to the production of beautifully crafted, limited edition books and prints.
Hilliard received his BFA degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He went on to earn his MFA degree from Yale University where he became the director of the undergraduate photography program from 2002 - 2005. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Grant and, in 2008, he received the Massachusetts College of Art and Design Alumni Association Achievement Award. A monograph of his work, David Hilliard, was published by Aperture in 2005. Hilliard’s photographs have been exhibited at and collected by museums locally including The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University; The Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park; and the Boston Public Library as well as other major museums among them the Yale University Art Gallery; the Whitney Museum of America Art; the Los Angles County Museum of Art; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Michael Itkoff is a photographer, writer and a Founding Editor of Daylight Magazine. Since 2003, Daylight has published in-depth photographic essays on important issues of the day via Daylight Magazine (print) and Daylight Multimedia (online). By reimagining the documentary mode through collaboration with established and emerging artists, scholars and journalists, Daylight has become one of the premier showcases for contemporary photography. Itkoff’s photographs are in public and private collections in the United States and he has been a recipient of the Howard Chapnick Grant for the Advancement of Photojournalism (2006), a Creative Artists Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Arts Council (2007), and a Puffin Foundation Grant (2008). Itkoff's monograph 'Street Portraits' was published by Charta Editions in 2009. Itkoff received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2004 and an M.F.A. in Advanced Photographic Studies from ICP/Bard in 2010.
Photographer Peter Kayafas has traveled and photographed extensively in the Unites States, Europe, Cuba, and Romania. He has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery in New York City; Gallery Luisotti in Santa Monica, CA; the Art Institutive Chicago; the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Garden and other Places. His work has been published in Double Take Magazine; Bystander: A History of Street Photography by Joel Meyerowitz and Colin Westerbeck; Two Views of Cuba: Photographs by Lou Jones and Peter Kayafas (DeCrdova Museum, 2001); and The Spirit of Family by Albert and Tipper Gore. In addition to numerous private collections, his photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the New York Public Library; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the New Orleans Museum of Art and the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Ma. When Kayafas is not on the road he lives and works in New York City.
Matthew Pillsbury (b-1973) is a French born photographer who lives in New
York City. He makes long exposure black and white photographs that are open
ended reflections on our complex and evolving relationships to technology,
culture, art and each other. His photographs are included in the permanent
collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney, the
Tate Modern and the Louvre among others and has been widely exhibited both
nationally and internationally. They have also been featured in the New York
Times Magazine, Wired, New York Magazine and other publications. He received
his BFA from Yale University and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in
2004. In 2007 he was the recipient of the HSBC award for photography which
published a monograph of his work. He is represented by the Bonni Benrubi
gallery in New York.
Director of Photography, Time Magazine
Photographer Gerald Slota, who has been widely exhibited across the US and abroad, has had solo shows at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, and Langhans Galerie in Prague, Czech Republic, and has been shown at Recontres D’ Arles in Arles, France, and at the Hasted-Hunt Gallery in NYC. His work is included in collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and the Whitney Museum of Art, and his images have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Details, and Esquire, as well as in BOMB, Blindspot, ARTNEWS, Art in America and Aperture. Slota has taught and lectured at many institutions such as the International Center for Photography (ICP) in NYC, and has garnered many awards including a Polaroid 20”x24” Grant, a MacDowell Artist Residency, and a Mid-Atlantic Fellowship Grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in 2001 and 2009. He currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts in NYC.
Owner, Printer, Gotham Imaging
Amy Stein (b. 1970) is a photographer and teacher based in New York City. Her work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture and the environment. She has been exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is featured in many private and public collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Nevada Museum of Art, SMoCA and the West Collection. In 2006, Amy was a winner of the Saatchi Gallery/Guardian Prize for her Domesticated series. In 2007, she was named one of the top fifteen emerging photographers in the world by American Photo magazine and she won the Critical Mass Book Award. Amy's first book, Domesticated, was released in fall 2008. It won the best book award at the 2008 New York Photo Festival. Amy was raised in Washington, DC, and Karachi, Pakistan. She holds a BS in Political Science from James Madison University and a MS in Political Science from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. In 2006, Amy received her MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Stein teaches photography at Parsons The New School for Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Amy is represented by Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco, ClampArt in New York, and Pool Gallery in Berlin.
Sasha Wolf opened the Sasha Wolf Gallery in the summer of 2007 after a number of years working with photographers as an editor and private photography dealer. The gallery specializes in post-documentary photography and represents emerging and mid-career artists. Prior to her work in the fine art photography world she was a writer, director and producer in the film and television industries and an award winning short filmmaker. Her last film, Joe, was nominated for the Palme d'Or du court métrage at Cannes and has screened all over the world.
