Lesley University College of Art and Design

MFA Photography & Integrated Media Faculty

MFA Director, Christopher James, in a public forum conversation at the Boston Public Library with Visiting Artist, Sebastiao Salgado

Chistopher James

University Professor / Director MFA in Photography and Integrated Media 2011 - Present

Christopher James is an internationally known artist and photographer whose photographs, paintings, and alternative process printmaking have been exhibited in galleries and museums in this country and abroad. His work has been published and shown extensively, including exhibitions in the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, George Eastman House, Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art-Boston. Represented by the Lee Witkin Gallery in New York City for over two decades he has also shown at Pace-McGill (NYC), Contrasts Gallery (London), Michelle Chomette (Paris), Hartje Gallery (Berlin), and Photokina (Germany). He has published extensively including Aperture, Camera (Switzerland), American Photographer, and Interview magazine and in books such as The Antiquarian Avant Garde á Prova de Aguà: Waterproof, Human Documents, and Handcrafted: The Art and Practice of the Handmade Print (China).

All three editions of his book, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes have received international critical acclaim and are universally recognized by artists, curators, historians, and educators as the definitive texts in the genre of alternative process photography and photographically integrated media and culture. A significantly expanded 900 page / 700 image, 3rd edition was published in 2015. Christopher, after 13 years at Harvard University, is presently University Professor and Director of the MFA in Photography program at Lesley University College of Art and Design. He received his undergraduate degree from Massachusetts College of Art and his masters from the Rhode Island School of Design and is also a painter, graphic designer, and a professional scuba diver. Christopher’s web site is www.christopherjames-studio.com.

David Hilliard

Graduate Seminar and Visiting Artist / Scholar, 2013 & 2017

David Hilliard creates large-scale multi-paneled color photographs, often based on his life or the lives of people around him. His panoramas direct the viewer’s gaze across the image surface allowing narrative, time and space to unfold. David received his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and MFA from the Yale University School of Art. He worked for many years as an assistant professor at Yale University where he also directed the undergraduate photo department. He has also taught at Harvard and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He currently teaches in Boston at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and was a visiting faculty at Harvard University during the 2014-15 academic year. David teaches many summer workshops throughout the country and partakes in various artist residencies. This past summer he was Artist in Residence a Twenty Summers in Provincetown, MA.

David Hilliard exhibits his photographs both nationally and internationally and has won numerous awards such as the Fulbright and Guggenheim. His photographs can be found in many important collections including the Whitney Museum of American art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His work is represented by the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston, Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA and in Paris at La Galerie Particuliere. In 2005 a collection of his photographs was published in a monograph by Aperture Press and more recently Minor Matters Books published his new monograph “What Could Be". His web site - www.davidhilliard.com

Dan Estabrook

Thesis Seminar Faculty 2013 - Present - Visiting Artist 2011 & 2016

Dan Estabrook Received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his Masters from University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. For over twenty years Dan Estabrook has been making contemporary art using a variety of 19th-century photographic techniques. Recently he has focused on the earliest paper photographs – calotype negatives and salted paper prints – as sources for hand manipulation with paint and pencil. He balances his interests in photography with forays into sculpture, painting, drawing and other works on paper.

Dan has exhibited widely and has received several awards, including an Artist’s Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts in 1994. He is also the subject of a recent documentary by Anthropy Arts.He is represented by the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York and Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His web site is www.danestabrook.com

Ziad H. Hamzeh

Faculty 2011 - Present - Filmmaker / Graduate Seminar Professor

A member of the Producer's Guild of America, Ziad’s body of work as a director, producer and writer has earned over forty awards and honors. Most recently he produced acclaimed Tunisian filmmaker Ridha Behi's The Flower of Aleppo starring Hend Sabry and executive produced Dreams I Never Had starring Malcolm McDowell. The Flower Of Aleppo was honored as Tunisia’s entry into both the 2017 Academy Awards and Golden Globe Awards, and it was chosen to be the opening night event at the prestigious Carthage Film Festival. Irrefutable Proof, the dramatic thriller Ziad directed and produced, swept the Beverly Hills Film Festival earning three of the fest's highest awards: the Golden Palm, Best Actress, and Best Cinematography. He shared the Abu Dhabi Film Festival's Black Pearl Award for Best Producer with Ridha Behi for Always Brando, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Always Brando also received the Best Picture Award from the Alexandria Film Festival and the Jury Prize from the Algerian Film Festival. Ziad's Academy Award qualifying documentary The Letter: An American Town and the Somali Invasion has won numerous awards and accolades and was heralded as Critics Pick by New York Magazine. Woman, a documentary he shot on location in Syria, once again earned Ziad the Beverly Hills Film Festival's highest honor, the Golden Palm Award. ¡Henry O! also garnered Best Documentary honors at the Beverly Hills Film Fest as well as the Best of Fest Award from the Breckenridge Film Festival and the Accolades Award for Excellence in Film. His critically acclaimed debut feature film Shadow Glories has been heralded as “Powerful and distinctive. A mature, accomplished work...strong, stylish and uncompromising” by Kevin Thomas, film critic for The Los Angeles Times. Ziad kicks off 2019 with the release of Sushi Tushi, his animated and live-action football comedy. Ziad’s Web site is: www.hmfilms.net

Deb Todd Wheeler

Adjunct Faculty 2016 - present - Visiting Artist / Scholar, 2016

Deb Todd Wheeler is a media artist who produces installations, photographs, and sculptural objects that explore the aesthetic impact of human productivity in the natural world. There is a clash between the desire to be productive, to be industrious, to push technology forward, and the fraught consequences this desire reaps: through the impact of waste, residue and other less visible costs of productivity. Her work draws a bit from the 19th century, a time when artists and scientists were more closely linked for their compatible skills in both examining and documenting the natural world, and a bit from the industrious DIY culture of the 60’s. From power generating interactive installations to cataloging prints of plastic as a possible new species of marine life, to working with live western harvester ants who are, as Ann Wilson Lloyd wrote in Art in America, “… perfect collaborators for Wheeler, as their industry is a micro-complement to her own intensive, finely wrought crafting, and her ongoing interest in science and nature”. Recent exhibitions include the ICA at MeCA in the exhibit EXCHANGE, Ellen Miller Gallery Boston, The New Britain Museum of American Art, the Islip Art Museum, St Gaudens Museum, as well as the Megapolis Audio Art and Documentary Festival. Her work was chosen by both the Boston Globe and the Boston Phoenix as “Best Exhibitions of 2010”, and was awarded the Best Solo Exhibition and Best New Media of 2010 in the New England Journal of Aesthetic Research annual awards. She has also received both an individual and institutional artist grant from the Artist Resource Trust, a LEF Contemporary Work Fund Artist grant in Inter-media, Massachusetts Cultural Council Grants in Sculpture and Installation, as well as Photography, and a collaborative project grant from Artists in Context through the BARR Foundation. She teaches in the 3D Department at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and is on the Low Residency MFA Faculty at the Art Institute of Boston/Lesley University, and spent 2012/13 teaching sculpture and working on the Eric Green Sculpture/Installation commission at Brandeis University. Deb’s site: http://babel.massart.edu/~debtoddwheeler/index.htm

Regis de Silva

Guest Juror & Faculty 2011 – 2018

Regis de Silva's experience in imaging includes cinematography in cardiology, using film, digital media, video, Polaroids, ultrasound, MRIs and radionuclide technology. He studied photography, sculpture and painting at various locations in extended programs including the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. His primary interest is in conceptual issues in composition, the anthropology of photography and neurocognitive aspects of vision and color. He has presented his work at academic and art conferences nationally and internationally on the anthropological aspects of photography. Recently he published two book chapters on a photographic and video study of his 12Gender Study and another reporting on psychologically threatening images. Regis has served on the art and photo Juries at the Copley Society of Art and at MIT, worked on photography projects with the List Visual Art Center at MIT, and currently serves on the Art Committee at the French Cultural Center of Boston. At LUCAD Regis has mentored students in the MFA Program for independent study and taught several photo courses in France, Italy, and the CzechRepublic. In 2015 he taught a photography program for the Cambridge Center for Adult Education Cuba assisted by a second year MFA student from LUCAD. His primary academic appointment is at Harvard Medical School as Associate Professor of Medicine. He is also Director of Strategy for the Resurgence Inc., a climate change resilience group based in London, England.

Joseph Wolin

Photography as a Cultural Practice / Visiting Artist / Scholar - Spring 2018

Joseph R. Wolin, a critic and curator of contemporary art based in New York, teaches in the photography MFA program at Parsons School of Design, The New School. He taught in the MFA program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 2003 to 2015, and has also taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, MassArt, Drew University, and Fordham University. He has served on end-of-semester juries in the photography MFA program at Lesley University since 2012. He is the author of more than 170 art exhibition reviews for Time Out New York since 2006, and has also written for The New Yorker, Canadian Art, and Modern Painters, among other publications. He has curated more than 25 exhibitions since 1994, including The Royal Art Lodge: Ask the Dust, which traveled to six venues in four countries during 2003 – 05, and Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, which is currently traveling to four American university art galleries. He was the Art Critic in Residence at the Bronx Museum in 2012 – 13, and since 2002 has served as a founding board member of Participant, Inc., in New York. Open This End Exhibition - The Skylark Foundation

Sunanda Sanyal

Professor LUCAD / Art History and Critical Studies

Sunanda K Sanyal is Professor of Art History and Critical Studies at LUCAD. Originally from India, Sunanda has an MFA in Visual Arts (painting and installation) from UCSD (1990); an MFA in Art History from Ohio University (1993); and a Ph.D. in Art History from Emory University (2000). He is interested in politics of representation and identity; representation and otherness; contemporary artists from former colonies in global discourses. Sanyal has chaired panels on contemporary artists of color at various conferences, including the College Art Association, the African Studies Association, the Arts Council of the African Studies Association, and the American Council of South and Southeast Asian Art. He has also published articles and reviews.

Visiting Artist / Scholar Overview

The Visiting Artist program is a key component of the MFA in Photography program and is intended to promote curricular flexibility and a timely reflection and response to the constantly changing identity of photography in the 21st century.

Graduate Studio Seminars I – IV are designed as the core graduate study experience and is critical to the immediate reputation, success, and evolution of the MFA program. Each semester, a Visiting Artist / Scholar will be teamed with a core faculty member, and 12 MFA candidates in a Graduate Studio Seminar for an intensive studio and critical studies experience.

In order to engage the highest caliber Visiting Artist / Scholars, we do not require that Visiting Artists reside in Boston for the semester. Instead, we ask each Visiting Artist to come to the program 3 times during their semester and to be in residence for two complete days (6 - 7 in total) of work directly with MFA candidates. The first visit coincides with the beginning of the semester in order to begin the working relationship between the MFA candidates and Visiting Artist. It will consist of a 6-hour Graduate Studio Seminar with a core faculty and a 12 MFA candidate cohort on the first day of the visit. The second day will feature one-on-one meetings between the Visiting Artist and each student in their group.

The second visit will be scheduled during mid-semester reviews and will repeat the structure of the first visit and will include a Visiting Artist’s Talk with the University and The College of Art and Design community on a subject of the Visiting Artist’s choice. The final visit will take place at the conclusion of the semester where the Visiting Artist will join other faculty and guest critics for mid-year and end-of-year final thesis juries. Throughout the term, Visiting Artists will be expected to be in timely correspondence with the MFA candidates in their Graduate Studio Seminar section, via email, telephone, or in person.

Past, current and committed Visiting Artist / Scholars include Dan Estabrook, Vicki Goldberg, Keith Carter, Luis Gonzalez Palma, Lyle Rexer, Susan Bright, Roy Flukinger, Holly Roberts, Matt Saunders, David Hilliard, John Stilgoe, Holly Roberts, Deborah Luster, Andy Grundberg, Merry Foresta, Alison Nördstrom, Elinor Carucci, Sebastião Salgado, Deb Todd Wheeler, Lucy Soutter, Laurel Nakadate, Joe Wolin, Binh Danh, Diana Stoll, Corrine Botz, Pamela Pecchio, and Susan Meiselas.

Lara Porzak - Bird Corpse Series, 2015 (wet plate collodion)

One of the major benefits of a full immersion, residency, graduate program is the intensity of the experience, the eagerness of your fellow candidates, and the generosity and knowledge of the faculty and Visiting Artist / Scholars who are working with you throughout the year. Each encounter offers new and honest perspectives to consider, fresh eyes to assess your progress, and the encouragement to go forward.

– Sara Bonnick, second year MFA Photography candidate

List of Visiting Artists

Visiting Artists 2011 - 2012

Visiting Artists 2012 - 2013

Visiting Artists 2013 - 2014

Visiting Artists 2014 - 2015

Visiting Artists 2015 - 2016

Visiting Artists 2016- 2017

Visiting Artist's 2017- 2018

Visiting Artist's 2018 - 2019 (scheduled)

Visiting Artist's 2019 - 2020

Upcoming

  • Susan Meiselas (photographer, filmmaker, former President of Magnum)

  • Luis Gonzalez Palma – fall 2017 - Luis Gonzalez Palma

Visiting Artist /Scholar Bios

Elinor Carucci - Visiting Artist / Scholar - Fall 2015 and 2018

Born 1971 in Jerusalem, Elinor Carucci graduated in 1995 from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design with a degree in photography, and moved to New York that same year. Her work has been included in many solo and group exhibitions worldwide, solo shows include Edwynn Houk gallery, Fifty One Fine Art Gallery, FoMU, and Gagosian Gallery, London among others and group shows include The Museum of Modern Art New York, MoCP Chicago and The Photographers' Gallery, London.

Her photographs are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art New York, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Art, among others and her work appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Details, New York Magazine, W, Aperture, ARTnews and many more publications. She was awarded the ICP Infinity Award in 2001, The Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and NYFA in 2010. Carucci has published three monographs to date, Closer, Chronicle Books 2002 and Diary of a dancer, SteidlMack 2005 and MOTHER, Prestel 2013. In fall of 2019 Monacelli Press will publish her fourth monograph, Mid Life.

Carucci teaches at the graduate program of Photography and Related Media at School of Visual Arts and is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery. http://www.elinorcarucci.com

In the past few years I have been involved, as a visiting artist, and as a part of the end of the semester jury committee, with the MFA program of Lesley University, an experience that has been enriching and special. I met and collaborated with the brilliant chair, faculty, and other juries of the program, people I have learned so much from and was inspired by, and some extraordinary students, talented, devoted and unique in their work and way of thinking. I always love coming to Lesley...it feels like home, it is academically and intellectually advanced and challenging, but also warm and nurturing. We talk about art, about life, we argue, we laugh. Everybody cares. And this unique combination of qualities makes being a part of this program a great experience.

– Elinor Carruci, 2018

Karen Haas – Visiting Artist / Scholar – spring 2020

Karen Haas has been the Lane Curator of Photographs at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, since 2001, where she is responsible for a large collection of photographs by American modernists, Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and Imogen Cunningham. The Lane Collection numbers more than 6,000 prints and ranges across the entire history of western photography. Before coming to the MFA, she held various curatorial positions in Boston-area museums and private collections, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Boston University Art Gallery, and the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover. She has a BA in Art History from Connecticut College; an MA in the History of Photography at Boston University; and has taught the history of photography at both Boston University and Boston College. Her MFA activities include exhibitions, such as Ansel Adams in Our Time; (un)expected families; Charles Sheeler from Doylestown to Detroit; Imogen Cunningham: In Focus; Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott; Edward Weston: Leaves of Grass; and Bruce Davidson: East 100th Street. She has just completed a book on the early work of Edward Weston, and her other publications include An Enduring Vision: Photographs from the Lane Collection; Common Wealth: Art by African Americans in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Ansel Adams; and The Photography of Charles Sheeler: American Modernist. Karen’s email address: khaas@mfa.org / MFA web site: http://www.mfa.org

Lauren Greenfield – Visiting Artist / Scholar – spring 2020

Named by The New York Times as “America’s foremost visual chronicler of the plutocracy,” Emmy-award-winning filmmaker/photographer Lauren Greenfield has produced groundbreaking work on consumerism, youth culture and gender for the past 25 years. Her documentary films Thin, The Queen of Versailles and Generation Wealth, and photographic monographs, Fast Forward, Girl Culture, Thin and Generation Wealth, have been screened, published, exhibited around the world. The Queen of Versailles won her the Best Documentary Director Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was named by Vogue as one of the top documentaries of all time. Her viral ad, #LikeAGirl, swept commercial awards, including 14 Cannes Lions (2015), was named 3rd Best Ad of the Decade, earned Greenfield the #1 Director/Most Awarded Director by AdAge (the first woman to top this list), and has become part of the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) permanent collection. Greenfield’s latest body of work, Generation Wealth, garnered her the 2018 Photographer of the Year from the Art Directors Club, The Paris Photography Prize 2018 (PX3), and the Lucie for Best Book Photographer of 2018.

In January 2019, Greenfield launched a production company, Girl Culture Films, to address the lack of diversity behind the camera in the advertising industry with the aim to amplify female and diverse voices.

http://www.generation-wealth.comhttp://www.faheykleingallery.com/artists/lauren-greenfield

Corrine May Botz – Visiting Artist / Scholar – Spring 2019

Corinne May Botz is a Brooklyn-based photographic artist, writer, filmmaker, and educator who earned her BFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art and her MFA from Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College. Her practice engages with issues surrounding narrative, gender, trauma, and the perception of space. Her published books combining photography and writing include The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death (Monacelli Press, 2004) and Haunted Houses (Monacelli Press, 2010). Botz’s photographs have been internationally exhibited at such institutions as the Brooklyn Museum; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois; Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany; De Appel, Amsterdam; and Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK; Bellwether Gallery, New York City; and Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington D.C. Her work has been reviewed in numerous publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Papers, Foam Magazine, Hyperallergic, Bookforum, Modern Painters, Time: Lightbox and Ciel Variable 93. She has held residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Atlantic Center for the Arts; Akademie Schloss Solitude; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Mana Contemporary. Botz is the recipient of both the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Jerome Foundation grants. She is on the faculty of International Center of Photography and John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). Botz is represented by Benrubi Gallery in NYC. Her website is: www.corinnebotz.com

Alison Nordström – Visiting Artist / Scholar – Fall 2015 & Spring 2019

Alison Nordström is an independent scholar, writer and curator specializing in photographs of all kinds, formerly Founding Director and Senior Curator of the Southeast Museum of Photography, and Senior Curator of Photographs/Director of Exhibitions at George Eastman House. She was an editor of the academic journal Photography and Culture (London) from 2007 to 2010 and is the author of over 100 books and essays on photographic topics. She has curated over 150 photographic exhibitions in nine countries, including Lewis Hine, Truth/Beauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, and Ideas in Things: Photography and Materiality. In 2015 and 2016 she was artistic Director of Fotofestiwal Lodz, in Poland. She was the curator of "Joan Fontcuberta: Crisis of History" for the Hamburg (Germany) Photographic Triennial in 2018, and is co-curator, with Marcel Feil, of "Negative Beauty" at FOAM Foto Museum, Amsterdam, scheduled for 2020. She is currently Head Tutor in Curatorial Practice for the EU funded Parallel Photographic Platform in Zagreb and Lisbon. She holds the PhD in Cultural and Visual Studies. Web Site: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-nordstr%C3%B6m-496aa45a/

David Hilliard – Visiting Artist Fall 2013 - 2016 - 2019

David Hilliard creates large-scale multi-paneled color photographs, often based on his life or the lives of people around him. His panoramas direct the viewer’s gaze across the image surface allowing narrative, time and space to unfold. David received his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and MFA from the Yale University School of Art. He worked for many years as an assistant professor at Yale University where he also directed the undergraduate photo department. He has also taught at Harvard and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He currently teaches in Boston at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and was a visiting faculty at Harvard University during the 2014-15 academic year. David teaches many summer workshops throughout the country and partakes in various artist residencies. This past summer he was the artist in residence at Twenty Summers in Provincetown, MA. David Hilliard exhibits his photographs both nationally and internationally and has won numerous awards such as the Fulbright and Guggenheim. His photographs can be found in many important collections including the Whitney Museum of American art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

His work is represented by the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston, Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA and in Paris at La Galerie Particuliere. In 2005 a collection of his photographs was published in a monograph by Aperture Press and more recently Minor Matters Books published his new monograph “What Could Be". His web site - www.davidhilliard.com

Pam Pecchio – Visiting Artist / Scholar - Fall 2018

Pamela Pecchio received her MFA in Photography from Yale University in 2001, where she was awarded the Richard Dixon Welling Prize. Her photographic and collage work has been exhibited nationally and abroad, including exhibitions at Aperture, Wallspace and Daniel Cooney Fine Art Galleries in New York, as well as International Art Camp in Beijing, China, the Amsterdam DreamBike Festival, and Köeln Art in Cologne, Germany. Works have been published in Details, ArtNews, and 8x10 Magazines. She is the author of two books -- eight, an artist’s book published by Nexus Press, and 509, a limited edition monograph published by Daniel 13 Press. Permanent collections include the Yale University Art Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Do Good Fund and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. She has been teaching photography and studio courses for 16 years including positions at the UNC Chapel Hill, Duke University, Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the University of Virginia. www.pamelapecchio.com

Luis González Palma - MFA Visiting Artist – fall 2012 and Upcoming

Born in Guatemala in 1957, Palma currently lives and works in Córdoba, Argentina. Among his personal exhibitions can be noted: the Art Institute of Chicago (USA); the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, (USA); the Australian Centre for Photography, Australia; Palacio de Bellas Artes of México; the Royal Festival Hall in London; Palazzo Ducale di Genova, Italia; Museos MACRO and Castagnino de Rosario, Argentina. He has also exhibited in photographic festivals such as Photofest in Houston, Bratislava in Slovakia, Les Rencontres de Arles in France, PhotoEspaña in Madrid, Singapore, Bogotá; San Pablo and Caracas, among others.

He has participated in collective shows including the 49th and 51st Biennale di Venezia, Fotobienal de Vigo, XXIII Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil, V Bienal de la Habana; the Ludwig Forum for International Kunst in Aachen, Germany; The Taipei Art Museum in Korea, Museo de Bellas Artes of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Foundation Daros in Zurich, Switzerland; Palacio del Conde Duque in Madrid, España and the Fargfabriken in Stockholm, Sweden. His work is included in various public and private collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Daros Fundation in Zurich, Switzerland, La Maison European de la Photographie in Paris, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, la Fundation pour l'Art Contermporain in Paris, France; la Fondazione Volume! in Rome, Italy; La Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango in Bogotá, Colombia; the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, the Minneapolis Institute of Art; and the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan. He received the Grand Prize Photo España “Baume et Mercier” in 1999 and collaborated in the staging of “Death and the maiden” in the Opera of Malmö, Sweden in 2008. He has three monographs of his work published including “Poems of Sorrow” by Arena Editions, and “El silencio de la Mirada” by Pelliti Editions in Rome. www.gonzalezpalma.com

Keith Carter – MFA Visiting Artist – fall 2012

Keith Carter holds the Endowed Walles Chair of Art at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. He is the recipient of the Texas Medal of Arts, the Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and the Regent's Professor Award from the Texas State University System. His work has been shown in over 100 solo exhibitions in thirteen countries. He is the author of eleven books: Fireflies, A Certain Alchemy, Opera Nuda, Ezekiel's Horse, Holding Venus, Bones, Mojo, Keith Carter Photographs: Twenty-Five Years, Heaven of Animals, The Blue Man, and From Uncertain to Blue. A DVD documentary of his work titled The Photographer's Series: Keith Carter was produced by Anthropy Arts. Carter's work is included in numerous private and public collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, George Eastman House, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University. www.keithcarterphotographs.com

Vicki Goldberg - MFA Visiting Artist / Author - fall 2012

Vicki Goldberg is one of the leading voices in the field of photography criticism, having written for New York Times for thirteen years, and has published several books and the texts for more than twenty photographic monographs. Her books "The Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives" and "Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography" were each named one of the Best Books of the Year by the American Library Association, and the anthology she edited, "Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present," was cited in the Wall Street Journal in 2006 as one of the five best books ever written on photography. Most recent book: "The White House: The President's Home in Photographs and History,” 250 photographs from the 1840s to 2010 of the house, the presidents, their wives, children, staffs, guests, pets, relations with the media and involvement with technology. She has received numerous awards for writing, including the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award, the Royal Society's Dudley Johnston Award, and the Long Chen Cup (China). Ms. Goldberg, who has taught courses at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York, the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, and the Rhode Island School of Design, lectures internationally (in Russia this past November) and writes on photography for various magazines. Vicki is currently working on a book on Brice Davidson for Magnum. Her web site is: www.vickigoldberg.com

Holly Roberts - MFA Visiting Artist - spring 2013

Holly Roberts received her BA from the University of New Mexico and an MFA from Arizona State U. University. A two time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts award, she has had numerous solo and group exhibitions including those at SF MOMA, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her work is in many important collections including LA MoCA, The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson. www.hollyrobertsstudio.com

Susan Bright - MFA Visiting Artist - spring 2014

Susan Bright is a curator and writer based in New York. She was formally Assistant Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery (London), Curator at the Association of Photographers and Acting Director for the MA at Sotheby's Institute of Art in London. Her previous exhibitions include: Something Out of Nothing (Fotogalleriet, Oslo), How We Are: Photographing Britain (co-curated with Val Williams; Tate Britain, London) and Face of Fashion (National Portrait Gallery, London). She is the author of Art Photography Now and Auto Focus—The Self Portrait in Contemporary Photography, both published by Thames and Hudson. Her newest book is Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood. She is currently a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths College (University of London) pursuing a PhD in Curating. Here’s a MOCAtv video of Susan in action. YouTube Curated by Susan Bright - MOCAtv - YouTube. Susan was a Visiting Artist in the MFA in Photography Program in the spring of 2014. http://susanbright.net

Roy Flukinger – MFA Visiting Artist – spring 2014

Roy Flukinger - as Senior Curator of Photography & Film at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Mr. Flukinger is currently in charge of the development, administration and application of the collections. He has and continues to lecture and publish extensively in such fields as: regional, cultural and contemporary photography, the history of art and photography, and film. He has produced nearly fifty exhibitions ranging from classical photo history to contemporary photography, and from photographers' retrospectives to American / regional / Texas photography. He serves as juror, reviewer and evaluator for contemporary photographic events, institutions and support organizations, as well as finds and develops acquisitions for the HRHRC Photography & Film Department. Mr. Flukinger serves as liaison for the Department with fellow professionals worldwide throughout the fields of Photography & Film.

Lyle Rexer – MFA Visiting Artist – spring 2013 / spring 2017

Lyle Rexer was born in 1951. He was educated at the University of Michigan, Columbia University, and Merton College, Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of several books, including Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-Garde: The New Wave in Old Processes (2002); Jonathan Lerman: The Drawings of an Artist with Autism (2002); How to Look at Outsider Art (2005); and The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography (2009). In addition to his book projects, Lyle Rexer has published many catalogue essays dealing with contemporary artists and collections and contributes articles on art, architecture, photography, and culture to a variety of publications, including The New York Times, Art in America, Modern Painters, Aperture, Metropolis, Parkett, and Raw Vision.

As a curator, he has organized exhibitions in the United States and internationally. For the Aperture Foundation he curated The Edge of Vision, an exhibition of contemporary abstract photography, which is traveling through 2013. Lyle Rexer teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and is a columnist for Photograph magazine.

The MFA program in photography at LUCAD has established itself as distinctive for the diversity of approaches it encourages, but as a visiting faculty member, I have come to appreciate its critique juries as among the most stimulating academic experiences I have had. Students have a tremendous advantage in presenting their work to a rotating group of the most important photographic professionals in the country: critics, artists, curators and educators. The spirit in the room is intense but also collaborative and profoundly supportive. Everyone has the same goal — to help the work get better — and the dialogues that result open up wonderful creative possibilities. There’s nothing else like it in my experience, which is why I agree to participate whenever I am asked.

– Lyle Rexer, author, educator, curator and Visiting Artist / Scholar, 2016

Diana Stoll – Visiting Artist / Scholar - spring 2017

Diana C. Stoll is an independent editor, writer, and curator specializing in contemporary photography and photobased art. She works with numerous cultural institutions, and has been affiliated with the Aperture Foundation since 1993: from 2000 to 2013 as Senior Editor of Aperture magazine, and currently as an editor of photobooks. Among Diana's recent editorial projects: Charlotte Cotton's Photography Is Magic (Aperture 2015), David Levi Strauss’s Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow (Aperture 2014), Eva Respini’s Robert Heinecken: Object Matter (MoMA 2014), Kathy Ryan's New York Times Magazine Photographs (Aperture 2012), and the forthcoming Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium (Getty Publications 2016). Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Diana frequently focuses on photography of the Southeast, and has curated exhibitions at galleries in North Carolina as well as at Aperture, and has contributed catalog texts on the work of Mike Smith, Paul Kennedy, Ken Abbott, Doris Ullman, and emerging Southern photographers. She has lectured and participated on panels at Art Chicago, Aperture, the Asheville Art Museum, YoungArts Miami, and elsewhere. Diana is the co-author, with Lin Arison, of Feast (Chronicle 2011) and Desert and Cities Sing (Chronicle 2016), and her writings on photography appear regularly in Aperture and other publications. Aperture Foundation: www.aperture.org

Laurel Nakadate – Visiting Artist / Scholar - fall 2017

Laurel Nakadate was born in Austin, Texas and raised in Ames, Iowa. From 1999 to 2001, while completing her MFA in photography at Yale University, she began to create provocative works in video, photography, performance and film that challenge conventional perceptions of power, seduction, tenderness and trust. Nakadate’s early relationship to the fixed single viewpoint of the camera (as both artist and subject), her insistence on simple production values, and her upending of public and private ritualistic behaviors, anticipated the amateur video aesthetic of YouTube diaries and internet blogs. A major monograph, 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears, featuring a yearlong photographic “performance,” in which the artist forced herself to cry each day during the year 2010, was published by Hatje Cantz and the Zabludowicz Collection, London.

Laurel Nakadate has participated in solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries worldwide, including a critically acclaimed ten-year survey Laurel Nakadate: Only the Lonely at MoMA PS 1 in 2011. Her works are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Cincinnati Art Museum; the Yale University Art Gallery; the Princeton University Art Museum; the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College; the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; and other distinguished institutions. The artist has also received widespread acclaim for two feature-length films, Stay the Same Never Change, which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and The Wolf Knife (2010), which was nominated for Gotham and Independent Spirit Awards and was the featured work in The Believer Magazine’s 2012 annual film issue. Nakadate's most recent museum show, Strangers and Relations, at the Des Moines Art Center ran for five months of 2015. The most recent images from that body of work were included in Land/Sky: Temporal Concepts, at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects in Feb. 2016. http://www.tonkonow.com/nakadate_relations.html and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c8KCJYVKGw

Binh Danh – Visiting Artist / Scholar – spring 2018

Binh Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977. He received an MFA from Stanford University and a BFA from San Jose State University. His technique incorporates his invention of the chlorophyll printing process, in which photographic images of war appear embedded in leaves through the action of photosynthesis. His current work explores photography’s relationship to memory and landscape with subject matters ranging from the American Civil War to the National Parks. Danh’s works were recently included in the exhibition “The Memory of Time” at the National Gallery of Art as well as “War Memoranda: Photography, Walt Whitman, and Renewal,” at the Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia. His work is included in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, George Eastman Museum, and the National Gallery of Art, among many others. In 2012, he was a featured artist at the 18th Biennale of Sydney in Australia. He is represented by Haines Gallery in San Francisco and Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix, Arizona. He lives and works in Tempe, AZ and teaches photography at Arizona State University, where he is an assistant professor of photography in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. You can see Binh’s work on his site: http://www.binhdanh.com

Matt Saunders - Visiting Artist - Fall 2014

Matt Saunders works cross boundaries between paintings, photographs, and animated films. Recent one-person exhibitions include those at Tate Liverpool, Marian Goodman Gallery, the Renaissance Society in Chicago and Harris Lieberman Gallery in New York. His work has been seen in group exhibitions at the DeCordova Biennial, the Sharjah Biennial, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Deutsche Guggenheim, Aspen Art Museum, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Sabanci Museum in Istanbul, and Artists Space in New York, and can be found in the collections of MoMA, SFMoMA, the Guggenheim, the Whitney, UCLA Hammer, and the Harvard Art Museums. Saunders earned his A.B. from the department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard in 1997, and his MFA from Yale in 2002. Since then he has been primarily living and working in Berlin. As a writer, Saunders is an occasional contributor to Artforum and Texte zur Kunst, among others. From 2007 to 2008 he collaborated with Katarina Burin, Philipp Ekardt, Heike Föll, and Jan Kedves on a project series and exhibition space – the “Institut im Glaspavillon”— on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin.

Matt Saunders: http://www.mariangoodman.com/artists/matt-saunders/

Lucy Soutter – Visiting Artist / Scholar - spring 2016

Photographer, critic, art historian and CalArts alumna Lucy Soutter (Art MFA 93) has released the book, Why Art Photography?, via London-based Routledge Press early this year. The publication is an introduction to art photography and the ideas behind the genre, exploring key issues such as ambiguity, objectivity, staging, authenticity, the digital and photography’s expanded field. Besides contemporary work, the book also traces concepts and visuals to their sources throughout art history. Soutter, who currently tutors at the Department of Critical and Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art in London, has spent more than two decades exploring contemporary art and photography through dozens of critical and academic writings, including essays in Girls! Girls! Girls! in Contemporary Art (Intellect, 2011), Appropriation (Whitechapel Gallery, 2009) and Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary Photography (Scala, 2008). Her web site: www.lucysoutter.com/ Find more information about the book here.

Deborah Luster - Visiting Artist - Fall 2014

Deborah Luster is best known for her installation archive series One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana and Tooth for an Eye A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish. For One Big Self, Luster photographed for six years in Louisiana's prison system, including the state's maximum-security prison at Angola. Tooth for an Eye documents homicide locations in the nation’s homicide capital, New Orleans. Monographs of both long-term projects are published by Twin Palms Publishers.

Deborah’s work is included in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Her awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2013), a Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, an Anonymous Was a Woman Award, the John Guttman Award and a Bucksbaum Family Award of American Photography. She is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery. Deborah’s web site: www.deborahluster.com

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Sebastião Salgado – Visiting Artist 2013

Sebastião Salgado is a Brazilian born photographer and universally considered one of the most influential and accomplished documentary photographers of the 20th century. Earning a masters degree in economics at the University of Sao Paulo, he began work as an economist for the International Coffee Organization and traveled often to Africa on business, where he began to seriously consider changing his career for one in photography. He made the switch in the early 70’s working initially as a photojournalist before focusing his attentions on the power of the documentary image. Salgado initially worked with the photo agencies of Sygma and the Parisbased Gamma and in 1979 joined Magnum. He left Magnum in 1994 and with his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado formed his own agency, Amazonas Images, in Paris, to represent his work.

Sebastião works on long term, self-assigned projects and books such as: The Other Americas, Sahel, Workers, Migrations and Genesis. Between 2004 and 2011, Salgado worked on "Genesis," a mammoth effort concentrating on the untouched in nature and humanity and the communities that live in harmony with their ancestral traditions and cultures as a potential path to humanity’s rediscovery of itself in conjunction with the natural world.

Lélia and Sebastião have worked together since the 1990s on the restoration of a parcel of Brazilian rain forest where he was raised as a child in Brazil. In 1998, the land was established as a nature reserve called the Instituto Terra, dedicated to reforestation and environmental education. This effort is documented in the 2014 film, The Salt of the Earth, directed by Wim Wenders and Salgado’s son, Julian Salgado. The film was honored at the Cannes Film Festival.

I would tell someone considering applying to the program to do it! At LUCAD there is a commitment to individual goals. This individualized approach paired with access to a wide range of instructors who are also practicing photographers and artists, with expertise in a variety of genres, make LUCAD the ideal place to earn an MFA in photography. I decided to enroll in the MFA program because I desired a support system of peers and educators to help me strengthen my voice as a photographer. I was looking for a way to have a clearer understanding of the “why” I make photographs and the best way to communicate that “why.” At LUCAD I am finding the answers to why.

– Jess Somers, MFA Photography graduate

Andy Grundberg - Visiting Artist / Author / Critic - spring 2015

Andy Grundberg (BA Cornell University, MFA University of North Carolina at Greensboro) is a writer, curator, teacher, and arts consultant who has been involved with photography and art for more than 25 years. As a critic for the New York Times from 1981 to 1991 he covered the rapid ascent of photography within the art world. From 1992 to 1997 he was the director of The Friends of Photography in San Francisco, where he founded the quarterly journal see. Among the major exhibitions he has organized are Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946 (1987), Points of Entry: Tracing Cultures (1996), Ansel Adams: A Legacy (1997), and In Response to Place: Photographs from The Nature Conservancy’s Last Great Places (2001). His books include Crisis of the Real (Aperture, 1999), Alexey Brodovitch (Abrams, 1989), and Mike and Doug Starn (Abrams, 1990). He is one of the contributors to William Christenberry (Aperture, 2006) and the Corcoran exhibition catalog Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change (Steidl, 2010). Grundberg was Associate Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C.

Merry Foresta - Visiting Artist / Curator / Scholar - spring 2015

Merry Foresta served as the founding director of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative from 2000 to 2010. Having received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Cornell University, she was a curatorial assistant at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca, New York, before joining the Smithsonian Institution in 1978. She first served as an assistant curator for twentieth-century art at the National Collection of Fine Arts (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum). There she was named the museum’s first curator of photography in1982 and subsequently was appointed senior curator of photography in 1992. In 2000, she was appointed Director of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative, a web-based, multi-disciplinary project about photography in Smithsonian collections. During this time, Ms. Foresta also has taught at a number of Washington, D.C. area universities and colleges.

During her tenure at the Smithsonian, Ms. Foresta has built one of the world’s premier collections of American photography. She has curated many exhibitions and authored catalogues on art and photography, including “Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray;” “Photography of Invention: Pictures of the 1980s;” “Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography;” Secrets of the Dark Chamber: The Art of the American Daguerreotype;” and “American Photographs: The First Century. For the inaugural project of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative,” Ms. Foresta authored At First Sight: Photography and the Smithsonian, which featured a broad sampling of photographs from collections throughout the Institution as well organized and authored an institution-wide website devoted to photography. “Click: Photography Changes Everything,” co-curated and coauthored with Marvin Heiferman, was the Smithsonian’s first online exhibition and publication site. Aperture published the printed version, Photography Changes Everything, in 2012. More recently she curated “A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum,” and is the curator for the forthcoming Irving Penn Retrospective exhibition that will open at the Smithsonian in 2015. Currently she is an advising fellow at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Management at Ohio University, and works as an independent curator and advisor for the arts at various museums and libraries, including the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego and the University of Virginia Arts Initiative.

John Stilgoe – MFA Visiting Artist / Scholar / Author - fall 2013

John Stilgoe is the author of many books and has taught at Harvard University since 1977. As Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape, he divides his time equally between the Department of Visual & Environmental Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Landscape Architecture in the Graduate School of Design. His courses focus on learning to see acutely (and sometimes serendipitously): the ordinary built environment forms his core subject. His introductory course explores ways of seeing the national built landscape since Spanish colonial times: his modernization course explores the ways advertising and other forces changed national attitudes and visions after 1890: his seminar on the North American seacoast lately emphasizes the depiction of the seacoast in period literature that now shapes tourism attitudes: and his course on fantasy centers on those elements of real landscape that morph into envisioned ones so much a part of modern childhood. He directs undergraduate and graduate theses that reflect the interests of individual students.

His books include Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845, Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene, Borderlands: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820 to 1939, and Outside Lies Magic. More recently they have focused on the maritime and marine topics: Shallow-Water Dictionary: A Grounding in Estuary English, Alongshore, and Lifeboat: A History of Courage, Cravenness, and Survival at Sea. A Fellow of the Society of American Historians and the winner of the Francis Parkman Medal, the George Hinton Prize, the Bradford Williams Medal, and other awards, he is a determined film photographer, often using one of his Rolleiflex medium-format cameras in his drives around the United States. He lives on an old farm and rebuilds antique small boats for relaxation. www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~stilgoe/ John was featured in a 60 Minutes profile segment a short time ago and you can watch it by clicking on this link.

Susan Meiselas – Visiting Artist / Scholar – Upcoming

Susan Meiselas is a photographer / filmmaker, author, professor, MacArthur Fellow (1992), and former President of Magnum Photos. Educated at Sarah Lawrence College and Harvard University She has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1976 and a full member since 1980. She has published several books of her own photographs including Carnival Strippers (1976), Nicaragua (1981) and has edited and contributed to others.

Meiselas joined Magnum Photos in 1976 and has worked as a freelance photographer since then. She is best known for her coverage of the insurrection in Nicaragua and her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. She published her second monograph, Nicaragua, in 1981. Meiselas served as an editor and contributor to the book El Salvador: The Work of Thirty Photographers and edited Chile from Within featuring work by photographers living under the Pinochet regime. She has co-directed two films, Living at Risk: The Story of a Nicaraguan Family and Pictures from a Revolution with Richard P. Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti. In 1997, she completed a six-year project curating a hundred-year photographic history of Kurdistan, integrating her own work into the book Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History and developed akaKurdistan, an online site of exchange for collective memory in 1998. Susan has had one-woman exhibitions in Paris, Madrid, Amsterdam, London, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, and her work is included in collections around the world. She has received the Robert Capa Gold Medal for her work in Nicaragua (1979); the Leica Award for Excellence (1982); the Engelhard Award from the Institute of Contemporary Art (1985); the Hasselblad Foundation Photography prize (1994); the Cornell Capa Infinity Award (2005) and most recently was awarded the Harvard Arts Medal (2011). Susan’s web site: www.susanmeiselas.com

Anne Eder, Anthotype Portrait

Natalie Titone, 2015 (porcelain ceramic pillows with image transfer

Amanda King - Clovers, 2013