artist bios

Yijun Liao

Yijun Liao was born in Shanghai. She spent three years as a freelance graphic designer until she grew sick of it and moved to Memphis to attend graduate school and receive her MFA in photography. She now resides in Brooklyn, NY.

www.bloodypixy.com

John Mann

John Mann was born in the East, raised in the Midwest, and schooled in the West. Upon graduation from the University of New Mexico with an MFA in Photography in 2002, he headed back east to start the cycle all over again. He now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, where he makes images and teaches at Florida State University. His work has also traveled and has been exhibited nationally.

www.rockpapercloud.com

Hosang Park

Hosang Park was born in Korea. He received his masters in photography from the Graduate School of Art & Design, Sangmyung, in Seoul, Korea and his B.A. from the Dept. of Fine Art Photography, Undergraduate School, Sangmyung. He lives and teaches in Seoul, Korea. He is currently starting a new project, Commonplace, and searching for a photograph he can’t get out of his head.

www.hosangpark.com

Cara Phillips

Cara Phillips is a Brooklyn based photographer. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College and came to photography after a childhood spent in front of the camera and many years in the beauty business as a make-up artist. Her work has been featured in numerous group shows, and images from her Singular Beauty series can be seen in Issue #31 of Cabinet Magazine. In addition to her own photography projects, she writes a successful photo blog, Ground Glass, and is the co-founder/co-curator of Women in Photography, an online exhibition project featuring the work of emerging and established female artists.

www.cara-phillips.com

Donald Weber

Donald Weber is originally from Toronto, Canada. He is an award-winning photographer currently residing in Kiev, Ukraine. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, he also received the Lange-Taylor Documentary Prize and a World Press Award in 2006. Amongst other citations, Weber was named one of PDN’s 30 in 2008 and an Emerging Photo Pioneer by American Photo Magazine. Prior to photography, Don worked as an architect for Rem Koolhaas’ Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. As a documentary photographer, Don believes in the power of the medium and has been involved in numerous major campaigns to provoke change. His work from Ukraine won the Grand Prize for the 2007 PHODAR Photography Biennial in Bulgaria.

www.donaldweber.com