Eric Cousineau

Eric Cousineau’s Essential Workers highlights his award-winning black-and-white portrait techniques. In this collection, he captures the spirit of the labor force, creating profound and resilient environmental imagery of the working class.

Beth Lilly

Beth Lilly is an artist whose photographs, installations, and videos investigate how we become what we are and the role choice, chance, and circumstance play in that ongoing evolution.

Owen Davies

Exploring themes of futurism and our relationship to the built environment, Owen Davies seeks to blur the boundaries of reality and our imagination, photographing the strange, surreal, and often overlooked landscapes found in our towns and cities.

Ed Kashi

Ed Kashi is a renowned photojournalist, filmmaker, speaker and educator who has been making images and telling stories for 40 years. His restless creativity has continually placed him at the forefront of new approaches to visual storytelling.

Judy Dater

Judy Dater, with a career spanning five decades, is a trailblazing American photographer celebrated for her groundbreaking contributions to contemporary photography, focusing on the exploration of the human form and identity.

Jo Ann Callis

Jo Ann Callis is a pioneer in photography and began teaching at CalArts in 1976. Words such as fabricated, constructed, sexual, and surrealist have been used to describe her memorable photographs.

Mykle Parker

Mykle Parker is a documentary photographer who specializes in social justice and gender equity and has been working on various long-term projects over the past 20 years that seek out stories and perspectives that are overlooked, clandestine, and unseen.

Lori Vrba

Lori Vrba is a self-taught multi-media artist based in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Her imagery and assemblage are rooted in themes of memory, illusion, loss, and revival with the southern sensibilities of storytelling.

Ami Vitale

Ami Vitale, National Geographic photographer, writer, and filmmaker, has been a pioneer in creating unique conservation stories that amplify the work of communities on the frontlines of grassroots conservation.

Heather Evans Smith

Heather Evans Smith is a photo-based artist whose work reflects her southern roots, motherhood, womanhood, and a whimsical imagination she relied on as an only child in a rural town. Her photographic imagery explores the ideas of memory, loss, and family in conceptual settings.

Ella Morton

Ella Morton is a Canadian visual artist and filmmaker living in Toronto. Working primarily with lens-based media, she uses experimental analogue processes to capture the sublime and fragile qualities of remote landscapes.

Jaime Aelavanthara

Jaime Aelavanthara is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Tampa department of Art + Design. Her work explores themes of the human condition and an interconnectedness with nature, often using the cyanotype printmaking process.

Barbara Diener

Using photography to better understand cultural norms, history, heritage, and collective memory, Barbar Diener’s latest research-based project, The Rocket’s Red Glare, takes us from WWII to the current space race - all while deliberating fact from fiction.