Ben Huff is a fine-art photographer living in Fairbanks, Alaska. He is currently working on a long term project on Alaska’s Dalton Highway. In 2009, he showed portions of the work in Fairbanks and the Pratt Museum in Homer, Alaska, as well as in Alaska Positive, a traveling statewide exhibition. His work was also featured in the Humble Arts Foundation Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography. In February 2010, he will be part of the America Now exhibit at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the University of Alaska Museum of the North and the Alaska State Museum.
Ben’s website: www.huffphoto.com
Ben’s blog: Words & Photographs
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Dave Jordano received a BFA in photography from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit in 1974. In 1977, he established a successful photography studio in Chicago, shooting major print campaigns for national advertising agencies. As an emerging fine art photographer, he received the Curator’s Choice Award in the Houston Center for Photography’s 2004 membership exhibition. In 2006, he was a finalist in the Critical Mass national photographic book award in Portland, Oregon. A major exhibition of his work on African American storefront churches was held at the Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL in the Spring of 2009. Dave has exhibited widely and his work is in several private, corporate and museum collections – most notably The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art. His recent book published by The Center for American Places at Columbia College, titled, Articles of Faith, was launched in April 2009. His current project, Prairieland, documents the cultural and societal identity of small town rural Illinois. Dave is represented by the Clark Gallery in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Dave’s website: www.davejordano.com
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Melissa Kaseman received her BFA in photography from the California College of the Arts in 2005. Before establishing herself in California, she spent a year abroad studying Contemporary Photography at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht, Netherlands. Most recently, she was named to the PDN30 – Photo District News’ Top 30 Emerging Photographers. Her photographs have been featured on Women In Photography, Flak Photo, Fjord Photo, and have been exhibited throughout California and North Dakota. Her work can be found in The New York Times Style Magazine, Dwell, ReadyMade, and Wired. Melissa was invited as a guest lecturer at the Palm Springs Photography Festival, and is preparing for an upcoming show at the NewSpace Center for Photography in Portland, Oregon.
Melissa’s website: melissakaseman.com
Melissa’s blog: melissakaseman.posterous.com
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John Loomis is a commercial and editorial photographer based in New York City and Miami. His career in photography began as a 15-year old stringer for the local newspaper, endured through college as an English major, and is now focused on shooting portraits and reportage on location for a diverse group of clients.
John’s website: www.johnloomis.com
John’s blog: blog.johnloomis.com
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Kevin J. Miyazaki is a Milwaukee-based editorial and fine art photographer. In 2009, work from his series Camp Home was included in group exhibitions at the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle and the Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco. Two pictures from his series Fast Food were offered as editions on 20×200, the online project by gallerist Jen Bekman. And in the same year, his list of magazine clients included GQ, Bon Appetit, ESPN, ReadyMade, Reader’s Digest and Forbes.
Kevin’s website: www.kevinmiyazaki.com
Kevin’s blog: kevinmiyazaki.blogspot.com
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Susana Raab is an editorial and fine-art photographer based out of Washington, DC whose greatest aspiration in life is simply to capture the dearness of the vanishing moment. Raab’s personal work focuses on issues relating to consumption and identity and has been exhibited widely, most recently at Silver-Eye Center for Photography and the Noorderlicht Photofestival in the Netherlands. Her photographs are held in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution and the District of Columbia Public Art Bank.
Susana’s website: susanaraab.com
Susana’s blog: Look Underfoot
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Dalton Rooney is a photographer from Brooklyn, New York, with roots in southern California. His work has been shown in galleries around the country and was recently featured in the Humble Arts Foundation Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography.
Dalton’s website: daltonrooney.com
Dalton’s blog: Third Nature
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Emily Shur is a Los Angeles based editorial and fine art photographer. Her editorial clientele includes The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, Interview, and Entertainment Weekly. Her work has been featured on numerous websites including Tiny Vices, Flak Photo, and 20×200 and was also selected for publication in American Photography 22, 24, and 25. In 2009, Emily was one of 100 photographers invited to participate in Review Santa Fe.
Emily’s website: www.emilyshur.com
Emily’s blog: My Four Eyed Fantasy
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Dallas native Allison V. Smith took her first snapshot when she was 8 years old, and she’s been taking pictures ever since. After earning a degree in journalism from Southern Methodist University, she worked as a staff photographer for newspapers such as the Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star Telegram, and Santa Fe New Mexican. In 2003 she made the decision to become a freelance photographer, yet her photojournalism continues to make itself evident in her portraits, magazine work, and fine art work. Smith’s portraits have appeared in a number of publications, including Texas Monthly, The New York Times, Dwell and the Oxford American, and her Marfa, Texas series has been exhibited in galleries in Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, and Los Angeles. The photographer wanders the world with her red Hasselblad and her two yellow Labs—Bucks and Daisy. They patiently ride to Marfa with Smith several times a year, Maine once a year, and wherever else the work takes them (37 states so far). Smith’s work is in the permanent collection at the Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Art in Houston and private collections in Dallas, Los Angeles, and Moscow. She is represented by Barry Whistler Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
Allison’s website: www.allisonvsmith.net
Allison’s blog: Superficial Snapshots
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Sonja Thomsen is an artist based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She received an MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004. Thomsen’s photographs and installations have been featured in exhibitions throughout the United States. Her photographs are in the permanent collection of the Milwaukee Art Museum. Thomsen’s work has most recently been exhibited at: Silverstein Photography, New York City; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison; David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago; Silvereye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh and the Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee. Thomsen was a Hermitage Fellow in 2008 and a nominee for the Santa Fe Prize in 2009.
Sonja’s website: www.sonjathomsen.com
Sonja’s blog: sonjaphotographs.blogspot.com
