Christine Collins
Born and raised in New York City, Christine Collins is a fine art photographer and educator currently based in Boston, MA. Her work has recently been exhibited at Jen Bekman Gallery, The Griffin Museum of Photography, The Tang Museum, and has been published in Adbusters Magazine. Christine holds a BA in Literature from Skidmore College and a MFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art. She is on the summer faculty of the Maine Photographic Workshops and is a member of the adjunct
faculty at the Art Institute of Boston, where she teaches Photography and Art History. She has previously been a guest lecturer at University of New Hampshire, Emerson
College, and Parsons School of Design. She is represented by Jen Bekman Gallery.
www.christinemcollins.com
Jennifer Davis
Jennifer Davis was born in Akron, Ohio in 1978. She received her BA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago in 2002 and is currently pursuing her MFA in photography at Yale University School of Art She is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship Award and a Community Arts Assistance Program Grant through the Department of Cultural Affairs. Her work has recently been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Photograph Chicago, Aperture Gallery, and the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Her photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Art Institute of Chicago, LaSalle Bank, Library of Congress, and the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Benjamin Donaldson
Benjamin Donaldson was born in Hanover, New Hampshire and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 1998 and an MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2001. He has had two previous solo shows at Jen Bekman, "Mouth of the Hudson" in 2003 and "Summerland" in 2007, as well as numerous national and international group shows. His work has been published in Artnews, Details, House and Garden, Newsweek, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Nylon, The Manchester Guardian (UK), The Yale University Literary Magazine, Times Magazine Style, V Man, and W. He was included in Photo District News' "30 Emerging Photographers of 2003". Donaldson is currently on the faculty of the International Center of Photography, the School of Visual Arts, and Hunter College and has previously lectured at Yale University. He is represented by Jen Bekman Gallery and Getty Images.
www.benjamindonaldson.com
Amy Elkins
Amy Elkins was born in 1979 in Los Angeles, CA. She received a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in May of 2007 where she received many student awards, including the Silahs Rhodes Scholarship. Her work has been published in PDN, American Photo, EyeMazing, and Dear Dave. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions across the world, including the PIP International Photo Festival in Pingyao, China, Gallery Gagopa in Masan, South Korea, Gallery Elsa in Busan, South Korea, and 3rd Ward Gallery in Brooklyn, and the SVA Gallery in New York. Elkins currently works and resides in New York City.
www.amyelkins.com
Todd Hido
Todd Hido is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist whose work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, EyeMazing, Metropolis, The Face, I-D, and Vanity Fair. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as in many other public and private collections. In 2007, Nazraeli Press published his fifth monograph, "Between the Two", which focuses on portraits and nudes.
www.toddhido.com
Alec Soth
Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Alec Soth's photographs are represented in major public and private collections, including
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Walker Art center. He has received fellowships from the
McKnight and Jerome Foundations and was the recipient of the 2003 Santa Fe Prize for Photography. His work has been
featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney
and Sao Paulo Biennials. His first monograph, Sleeping by the Mississippi,
was published by Steidl in 2004. NIAGARA, the follow-up to his widely acclaimed
Sleeping series, was published in 2006. Soth's work has been published in
The New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, W, and Newsweek. He became an
associate member of Magnum Photos in 2006.
www.alecsoth.com
Peter Haakon Thompson
Peter Haakon Thompson is an artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1993, he received a BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts. In addition to his photography, which explores his personal and private relationship to landscape and place, Thompson has created public art and community projects about place, including The A Project, The Art Shanty Projects, and most recently, the Auto-Ethnographic Guide Service. He is a past recipient of a Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowship, a McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Photographers, a Forecast Public Projects grant, and has been a two time artist-in-residence at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder in Trondheim, Norway. Thompson's work has been published in Photo Metro, Camerawork Journal, and The New Yorker. His work has been exhibited at the Scott Nichols Gallery in San Francisco, the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, Soo Gallery and the Soap Factory in Minneapolis, The Duluth Art Institute, Trans Art in Trondheim, Norway, and Jen Bekman.
www.peterhaakonthompson.com
www.the-a-project.org
www.artshantyprojects.org
Brian Ulrich
Brian Ulrich was born in 1971 in Northport, NY. His photographs, which portray contemporary consumer culture, reside in major museum collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Ulrich holds a MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago and a BFA in Photography from the University of Akron. Ulrich has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; the Julie Saul Gallery; and the Robert Koch Gallery. His first monograph, Copia, was published by Aperture in 2006 as part of the MP3: Midwest Photographers Project. Ulrich was named one of 2007's "30 Emerging Photographers" by Photo District News. His work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, the Chicago Tribune, Artforum, HarperÕs, Leica World, Phat Photo (Japan) and he is a frequent contributor to Adbusters. Ulrich lives and works in Chicago where he teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College, and has lectured across the country. Brian is represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco, and Julie Saul Gallery in New York.
www.notifbutwhen.com
Shen Wei
Born and raised in Shanghai, China, Shen Wei is a fine art photographer currently based in New York City. He holds an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York, a BFA in Photography from Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and a BA in Decorative Arts and Design from Shanghai Light Industry College. Shen's photographs have been exhibited at the Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle, Lincoln Center Avery Fisher Hall, and Minnesota Center for Photography and featured in publications such as Photo District News, American Photo, Photographer's Forum, JPG, and CMYK. Shen is a recipient of The Griffin Award 2007 from the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant from the New York City Department of Culture Affairs and Lower Manhattan Culture Council.
www.shenphoto.com
