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Hey, Hot Shot! ne plus ultra :: bios press release
James Deavin
James Deavin was born in 1973 in London and graduated from King's College in 1995, with a bachelor's degree in Classics. His earliest assignment as a photographer was traveling to Bosnia with an aid convoy at the time of the 1995 ceasefire. Since then, his documentary and portrait work has been published in publications such as the London Times, Sunday Review, W, Harper's, Photoworks, 125 and Next Level. He has also undertaken commercial projects and has representation for this in London and New York, working for clients including Sony, IBM, Virgin and Ericsson. His work has been shown in group exhibitions including the inaugural Brighton Photo Biennial, Art and Commerce Emerging Photographers and at the jen bekman gallery.
Youngna Park
Youngna Park received a dual Bachelor of Arts in History and Psychology from Cornell University in 2004. She is a self-taught photographer whose work appeared in a solo exhibit at Brooklyn's Landscape Café from March – April 2005 and in the summer 2005 Hey, Hot Shot! exhibit at jen bekman. Publications include New York Magazine, Cottages & Gardens LLC, Jest Magazine, Gothamist, and clients include Defunker T-shirts, The Intelligence Group, KEXP Radio, Little Jacket Books, and The Rosen Group. Youngna was recently featured in the weekly arts newsletter Artkrush, and interviewed for issue #4 of the quarterly photography publication, JPG Magazine. She currently works in Outline, the portraiture division at Corbis.
Christine Collins
Christine Collins was born and raised in New York City and it was a circuitous route to getting her MFA in photography at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. An English literature major at Skidmore College, she filled the post-collegiate void with a residency in photography at the Maine Photographic Workshops. She moved back to NYC after that, took up residence in Williamsburg, and promptly stopped photographing for 2 years. Navigating her new life, Christine did fundraising for non-profits, but realized that she missed photography. She started working freelance production so that she would have more time to shoot. In 2002, what was going to be a short summer in Maine lead to a job back at the Workshops, a new body of work and acceptance into grad school. Christine completed her MFA in May 2005 and is on the adjunct faculty at the Art Institute of Boston and an instructor at the Maine Photographic Workshops.