Posts in Category : From the PWP Archives
30 By 30: Aline Smithson / Brigette Lacombe
30 Women Photographers and the Women Photographers Who Inspired Them A Blog Series in Honor of Women’s History Month, March 1 – 31 Aline Smithson worked as a New York fashion editor with many photography greats before stepping behind the lens herself. Her work has been featured in many publications including the PDN Photo Annual, Communication Arts Photo Annual, Eyemazing, Artworks, Lenswork Extended, Shots, Pozytyw, and Silvershotz magazines. Exhibitions include solo shows at the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, The Tagomago Gallery in Barcelona, and Wallspace Gallery in Seattle. She writes and edits the blog, Lenscratch, and is a contributing writer for Diffusion, Too Much Chocolate, Lucida, and F Stop Magazines. Nominated for The Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award in 2008, 2009, and 2010 and for The Santa Fe Prize in Photography in 2009, she considers [continue reading...]
30 By 30: Rachel Barrett / Vera Lutter
30 Women Photographers and the Women Photographers Who Inspired Them A Blog Series in Honor of Women’s History Month, March 1 – 31 Rachel Barrett received a BFA in Photography & Imaging from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and an MFA in Photography, Video & Related Media from the School of Visual Arts. She has won numerous awards, including 1st Place in the Camera Club of New York’s 2010 International Juried Competition, Juror’s Pick in the 2010 Center for Documentary Studies Awards, and Honorable Mention and Official Selection at the PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2011. Barrett is an adjunct professor of photography at Kingsborough Community College, and her clients include The New York Times, Tablet Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, Ralph Lauren [continue reading...]
30 By 30: Greer Muldowney / Lee Miller
30 Women Photographers and the Women Photographers Who Inspired Them A Blog Series in Honor of Women’s History Month, March 1 – 31 Greer Muldowney is an artist and professor of photography at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and the New England Institute of Art. She has a degree in Political Science and Studio Art from Clark University, and a MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She has worked for photographers Stephen DiRado and Henry Horenstein, and acted as curator for the Desotorow Gallery in Savannah, Georgia, and as an assistant curator at the Panopticon Gallery in Boston. Her work has been exhibited and published in the United States, Hong Kong, Malaysia and France, and she is [continue reading...]
30 By 30: Ruth Fremson / Strength from the Many
30 Women Photographers and the Women Photographers Who Inspired Them A Blog Series in Honor of Women’s History Month, March 1 – 31 Ruth Fremson is a photographer for The New York Times, where she is also a frequent contributor to LENS Blog. She was part of the Associated Press team that won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for coverage of the Clinton impeachment, and her photographs of 9/11 and Afghanistan helped The New York Times win Pulitzer Prizes for breaking news photography and feature photography in 2002. In an interview with The Digital Journalist, Fremson said: “it’s documenting history.…that’s why we do this….We don’t do this to go out and win awards.€ Fremson has gone and seen and photographed so that we [continue reading...]
30 By 30: Laine Wyatt / Diane Arbus
30 Women Photographers and the Women Photographers Who Inspired Them A Blog Series in Honor of Women’s History Month, March 1 – 31 Laine Wyatt is an Associate Professor with the University of Central Florida’s School of Visual Arts & Design. She is an active member of the Society for Photographic Education (since 1995), and has served as Portfolio Reviewer at the national conference since 2005. Wyatt has exhibited her work in more than a hundred exhibitions across the country and in Europe, and has won a number of awards for individual works. Which woman photographer inspired you most? LW: Diane Arbus was the one I noticed first. I appreciate her ability and willingness to cross over to the ‘other’ not [continue reading...]