Current & Previous Photo Soup Participants
Photo Soup 1 Participants (2022)
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Joshua Chuang is a curator, editor, writer, and bookmaker who has held leadership roles at the Yale University Art Gallery, the Center for Creative Photography, and the New York Public Library. Among his projects are the retrospective exhibitions and publications Robert Adams: The Place We Live; Judith Joy Ross: Photographs 1978–2015; Santu Mofokeng: Stories; and Taryn Simon’s The Color of a Flea’s Eye: The Picture Collection, all of which exhibit his commitment to activating archives. In addition, he has worked with Mark Ruwedel, Lee Friedlander, and Kikuji Kawada on key monographs of their work.
He served as chair of the 2022 Hasselblad Award Jury. As of 2023 Chuang is the Director of Photography at Gagosian.
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Jessica Johnston is a curator, photography specialist and arts administrator. She is the Executive Director at Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, where she oversees the operations and strategic vision for the organization. VSW is a nonprofit organization, founded in 1969, that supports expansive and experimental approaches to photography, film, and media arts through exhibitions, publications, and artist residencies. Prior to joining VSW in 2014, Johnston was the Assistant Curator of Photographs at George Eastman Museum for eight years. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management from Toronto Metropolitan University/Ryerson University (2006).
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Daile Kaplan is a scholar, author, collector, and photographic specialist with extensive experience in auctions and appraisals. The founder and principal since 2020 of Daile Kaplan Appraisals, Advisory and Brokerage, she was, for thirty years, Vice President and Director of Photographs and Photobooks at Swann Galleries. She was the photography specialist on the popular PBS television program Antiques Roadshow (1993–2022) and has been a commentator for the History Channel, HG-TV, Plum TV, and City TV. Kaplan is the author of Lewis Hine in Europe: The “Lost” Photographs (Abbeville, 1988) and Photo Story: Selected Letters and Photographs of Lewis W. Hine (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991).
She has contributed essays to Appraising Art: The Definitive Guide to Appraising Fine and Decorative Arts, edited by Wendell Garrett; Photography Changes Everything (Aperture), edited by Marvin Heiferman; and The Education of a Photographer (Allworth Press), co-edited by Charles Traub, Steven Heller, and Adam Bell. At Swann Galleries, Kaplan organized sales of classical and contemporary photographs and out-of-print photobooks, setting world auction records for numerous nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographers. She also introduced sales dedicated to vernacular photography. Independently, Kaplan has created a personal collection of decorative and functional objects highlighted with photographs, for which she coined the name Pop Photographica.
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William Earle Williams is the Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Fine Arts, and Curator of Photography at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. Williams’s photographs have been widely exhibited, including in group and solo exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the George Eastman House, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the National Gallery of Art, Smith College, and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. His work is represented in many public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the National Gallery of Art. Williams has received individual artist fellowships from the Pew Fellowships in the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
williamearlewilliams.com
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Alison Nordström, curator, scholar, former Senior Curator of Photographs at George Eastman House
Photo by Dominic ChavezDiana Stoll, writer, curator, photobook editor, former Senior Editor of Aperture magazine
Photo by Joanne Chan
Photo Soup 2 Participants (2023)
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Mary Engel has directed the Ruth Orkin Photo Archive from its inception in 1985 and has directed the Engel/Orkin Film and Photography Archive since 2005. She has worked extensively with photography galleries, museums, and the independent film industry, and in 2000 founded the American Photography Archives Group (APAG). Engel has published three photography catalogs on her mother and contributed the introduction and served as co-editor on the book Ruth Orkin: A Photo Spirit (Hatje Cantz, 2021). Engel’s 1996 film Ruth Orkin: Frames of Life premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as an Outstanding Documentary of 1996; and her 2008 film Morris Engel: The Independent premiered on Turner Classic Movies.
Engel has lectured at the National Arts Club; Washington University in St. Louis (her alma mater); the East Bay Photo Collective; Harvard University; the St. Louis Art Museum; and the Brooklyn Historical Society. She has participated on panels at POWarts, Photoville, and the Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies, and in 2017 received the Griffin Museum of Photography’s Focus Spotlight Award. Engel completed the Seminar on Strategy for Artist-Endowed Foundation Leaders presented by the Aspen Institute Artist-Endowed Foundations Initiative. She is the Executive Director of APAG, which is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2025, and she wrote and published The Photo Archive Handbook: What You Need to Know.
maryengel.me
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Danielle Jackson is a critic, researcher, and arts administrator. As the co-founder and former co-director of the Bronx Documentary Center, a photography gallery and educational space, she helped conceive, develop, and implement the organization’s mission and programs. Formerly, she ran the Cultural Department at Magnum Photos NY. Jackson has taught courses in photography and visual culture at the Museum of Modern Art, Stanford in New York, the New School, and New York University. Her writing and reporting have appeared in numerous arts publications.
daniellejackson.info
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Elizabeth Krist was a photography editor at National Geographic for over 20 years and is now on the boards of Women Photograph and of the W. Eugene Smith Fund. She often works with CatchLight and with the Eddie Adams Workshop. A founding member of the Visual Thinking Collective, she teaches for ICP and regularly judges grants and competitions. She curated the Women of Vision exhibition and book, and co-curated four Photoville installations. She has freelanced for the New Yorker and Magnum Photos, and co-curated CatchLight’s 2023 Visual Storytelling Summit. Honors include the John Durniak Mentor Award from NPPA, and recognition from POYi, Overseas Press Club, and Communication Arts. Recently she has collaborated with Magnum Foundation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Apple, and the Joop Swart Masterclass for World Press.
visualthinkingcollective.com/elizabeth-cheng-krist
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María Martínez-Cañas is an artist who works with non-traditional photographic media. Born in Cuba and raised in Puerto Rico, she received a BFA in photography from the Philadelphia College of Art and an MFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Martínez-Cañas’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. She is the recipient of the Oolite Arts Michael Richards Award (2020); a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Photography Fellowship (2016); a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship (2014); a Cintas Fellowship; a National Endowment for the Arts award; and a Fulbright-Hays Grant, among others. Her works are included in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou in Paris; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; and the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC, among many other institutions. She lives and works in Miami.
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Tracey Morgan is the owner and director of the Tracey Morgan Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina. She began her career as a curatorial associate at Eaton Fine Art, Florida, contributing to exhibitions such as John Marin: The Sea and Forever Young: Children in Photographs, among others. Morgan continued her career in New York City, where she served as Associate Director at both Yancey Richardson Gallery and Pace/MacGill Gallery. In 2017 she opened the Tracey Morgan Gallery, which specializes in contemporary art and photography by emerging and established artists. The gallery has been featured in publications such as Harper’s Magazine, Wallpaper, Musée Magazine, AnOther, Photograph, and Juxtapoz. Artists featured at the gallery include Laura Letinsky, Stacy Kranitz, McNair Evans, and many others. Morgan received her BA in art history from Florida State University. She currently serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the College of Fine Art, Florida State University, and the Collections Council for the Bardo Art Center at Western Carolina University.
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Paula Tognarelli is a cultural administrator who served from 2007 to 2022 as executive director of the Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts, where she began in 2001 as an intern and eventually served as Deputy Director, producing on average more than fifty exhibitions a year. Tognarelli has frequently reviewed at national and local portfolio events and has jumpstarted hundreds of photographers’ careers. After her retirement from the Griffin she co- founded Firestarters, an initiative that services creatives and the creative industry.
Prior to her career as an arts administrator, Tognarelli worked for twenty-five years in the graphic arts industry, initially as a craftsperson and eventually as VP of operations for a company that included twelve printing companies across the United States. In the late 1990s, Printing Impressions magazine named Tognarelli one of twelve women in the United States who had contributed to major digital advances and workflows in the printing and graphic arts industries. She holds an MS in arts administration from Boston University and a BA from Regis College and is a graduate of the New England School of Photography. She has juried and curated more than a hundred exhibitions and awards for institutions nationally and internationally.
griffinmuseum.org
firestarters.press
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Alison Nordström, curator, scholar, former Senior Curator of Photographs at George Eastman House
Photo by Dominic ChavezDiana Stoll, writer, curator, photobook editor, former Senior Editor of Aperture magazine
Photo by Joanne Chan
Photo Soup 3 Participants (2024)
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David Hilliard is a contemporary photographer known for his panoramic photographs. He creates large-scale narrative multi-paneled color photographs, often based on his life or the lives of people around him. He is widely published and exhibits nationally and internationally. Hilliard received his MFA from Yale University and has won numerous awards, including a Fulbright grant and a Guggenheim fellowship. His photographs are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the George Eastman Museum, the collection of Sir Elton John, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the National Portrait Gallery, among many others.
Hilliard was for many years a professor at Yale School of Art, where he directed the undergraduate photography and served as a critic in the graduate photography department. He is regular visiting faculty at Harvard University, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and Lesley University, and leads photography workshops throughout the country. He has also made work for the New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, and Vogue Hommes Paris, and recently was lead photographer for Coca Cola’s “Together Is Better” global campaign. His work appears in many monographs and publications, and is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, and Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA.
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Anne Leighton Massoni is Executive Director of the Houston Center for Photography in Texas. Before joining HCP, she was the Dean and Managing Director of Education at the International Center of Photography in New York City. She has held professor and academic administrative positions including at Cornell University and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, among others. Massoni graduated with an MFA in photography from Ohio University and BAs in photography and anthropology from Connecticut College. She co-edited The Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography (Routledge, 2018). Her photographic practice relates to ideas of both real and fabricated memories and identity, using a variety of film and digital techniques.
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Lorie Novak is an artist and Professor Emerita of Photography and Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of Arts. Her photo-based works, installations, and web projects use technologies of representation to explore issues of memory and transmission, presence and absence, shifting cultural meanings of photographs, and the relationship between the intimate and the public. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. Novak has been awarded residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, Bogliasco Foundation, MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Djerassi Foundation. Her work has been shown in numerous national and international exhibitions and her photographs are in museum collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Center for Creative Photography, the Jewish Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. Novak’s web project collectedvisions.net(1996–present), exploring how family photographs shape our memory, was one of the earliest web-based interactive storytelling sites. During her tenure at NYU, she founded and directed Tisch Future Imagemakers, which offers a free photography workshop to New York City–area teens. Novak lives and works in Brooklyn.
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Vivian Poey is Professor of Photography and Integrated Studies at Lesley University. Before her current position, she taught extensively in art education and arts-integrated teacher-preparation programs across the country. As an artist and educator, Poey focuses on art as a form of investigation. Her photographic work addresses the junctures between personal narratives and historical issues, especially those dealing with cultural identities, memory, and displacement. Her work has been exhibited widely in both group and solo exhibitions and has been featured in publications such as Fraction magazine. Poey has served as a juror and curator for exhibitions including Crossing Borders: Personal Narratives of Immigration at the Sandra and Phillip Gordon Gallery and at Lesley University’s Parker Gallery. She has worked extensively at the intersection of arts and education and has co-authored and co-edited books including Art as a Way of Listening: Centering Student and Community Voices in Language Learning and Cultural Revitalization (Routledge, 2023). She is the recipient of the 2017 Massachusetts Art Education Association Higher-Educator of the Year Award. Poey received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Tom Rankin is Professor of the Practice of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Previously director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, he currently heads Duke’s Master of Fine Arts program in Experimental and Documentary Arts. Rankin received his BA in history from Tufts University, an MA in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an MFA in photography from Georgia State University. A photographer and writer, Rankin has been published widely in numerous magazines, journals, and books.
His publications include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (UP Mississippi, 1993); Faulkner’s World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain (UP Mississippi, 1997); Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (Norton, 2000); One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia (UNC Press, 2013); and, with his wife, Jill McCorkle, Goat Light (Horse & Buggy Press, 2021). Rankin’s work is included in the collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Library of Congress, the Archive of Documentary Arts, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, among many other private and museum collections.
tom-rankin.format.com
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Guy Michel Telemaque is a member of the Visual Art and Design faculty and Director of the Sandra and Phillip Gordon Art Gallery at the Boston Arts Academy, the city's only public high school for the visual and performing arts. Telemaque was born in Queens, New York, grew up in Miami, and received his Bachelor of Arts in fine art from Flagler College and his MFA in photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He has been an instructor at the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies, the Southeast Museum of Photography, and Massachusetts College of Art. His work has been exhibited nationally and is in the collection of the Southeast Museum of Photography. His awards include an artist fellowship from the Surdna Foundation, a Power of Art Fellowship from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, a Community Legacy Project Fellowship, a Perrone-Sizer Institute for Creative Leadership Fellowship, and Distinguished Educator of the Year (along with the other members of the BAA Visual Arts Department) from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
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Alison Nordström, curator, scholar, former Senior Curator of Photographs at George Eastman House
Photo by Dominic ChavezDiana Stoll, writer, curator, photobook editor, former Senior Editor of Aperture magazine
Photo by Joanne Chan