The PhotoWork Foundation is proud to announce the 2026 Junior Fellowship Mentors: Barbara Bosworth, Dannielle Bowman, Kelli Connell, Rahim Fortune, Irina Rozovsky, and Bryan Schutmaat.
Over the next six months, these accomplished artists and educators will mentor Fellows as they develop a body of work, refine their artistic practice, and bring their unique vision into focus.
Each Mentor will meet monthly with their Fellow guiding them through this new creative period, while engaging in discussions around process and articulating their work. Beyond individual mentorship, Fellows will participate in sessions with experts aimed at strengthening their professional practice and artistic careers.
Barbara Bosworth
Barbara Bosworth is a photographer whose large-format images explore both overt and subtle relationships between humans and the natural world.
Whether chronicling the efforts of hunters or bird banders or evoking the seasonal changes that transform mountains and meadows, Bosworth’s caring attention to the world around her results in images that inspire viewers to look closely.
Over her long career, Bosworth has photographed with a large-format 8×10 camera. Her single images display a generous attention to small facts, while her large-scale triptychs reveal a panoramic awareness, one that lets viewers glimpse relationships between frames across a wide field. All of Bosworth’s projects remind viewers not only that we shape nature but that it also shapes us.
Dannielle Bowman
Dannielle Bowman is a photographer and filmmaker based in New York and Los Angeles. Bowman has been an artist in residence at Light Work, Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York, and The Center for Photography at Woodstock. She was awarded the 2020 Aperture Portfolio Prize, 2020 PHMuseum Women Photographers Grant, and the 2021 Gund Foundation Photography Portfolio Commission. Her work has been published in Aperture Magazine, Camera Austria International, and the British Journal of Photography. Bowman has worked on editorial and commercial projects for Cadillac, the New York Times Magazine, and Vanity Fair, among others. Her work is in the permanent collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Light Work, KADIST, The Gund Foundation, as well as private collections. Bowman received a BFA from the Cooper Union, an MFA from the Yale School of Art, and will receive an MFA from the NYU Tisch Kanbar Institute of Film and Television in 2026.
Kelli Connell
Kelli Connell is an artist whose work investigates sexuality, gender, identity and photographer-sitter relationships. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, J Paul Getty Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, among others. Publications of her work include Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis (Aperture), PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice (Aperture), Photo Art: The New World of Photography (Aperture), and the monograph Kelli Connell: Double Life (DECODE Books). Connell has received fellowships and residencies from The Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, PLAYA, Peaked Hill Trust, LATITUDE, Light Work, and The Center for Creative Photography.
Rahim Fortune
Rahim Fortune, born 1994, is a visual artist from the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma. He uses photography to ask fundamental questions about American identity. Focusing on the narratives of individual families and communities, he explores shifting geographies of migration and resettlement and the way that these histories are written on the landscapes of Texas and the American South. Fortune’s book, I Can’t Stand to See You Cry, was published by Loose Joints in 2021 and was nominated for the Paris Photo-Aperture Photobook of the Year and the winner of the Rencontres d’Arles Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2022.
Irina Rozovsky
Irina Rozovsky is a photographer walking the line between reality, memory, and illusion. Her work reframes places with complex histories and stretches pedestrian observations into transcendent possibilities. She has published three monographs: In Plain Air, MACK, 2021; Island in my Mind, Verlag Kettler, 2015; and One to Nothing, Kehrer Verlag, 2011. Irina’s work is in the collections of various museums, including: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of the City of New York, New York; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; and Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond. She (usually) lives in Athens, Georgia, USA where she and her husband Mark Steinmetz run the photography workshop space The Humid.
Bryan Schutmaat
Bryan Schutmaat is a photographer based in Austin, Texas whose work has been widely exhibited and published. He has won numerous awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, the Aperture Portfolio Prize, and an Aaron Siskind Fellowship. Bryan’s prints are held in many collections, such as Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Pier 24 Photography, Rijksmuseum, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He co-founded the imprint, Trespasser.
The PhotoWork Foundation would like to thank the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for their generous support of the PhotoWork Junior Fellowship, as well as picturehouse + thesmalldarkroom for their donation of $2000 in in-kind services and post-production guidance to each of our Junior Fellows.