The PhotoWork Foundation is proud to announce the 2025 Senior Advisors. These distinguished artists and educators will work closely with their Fellows over the next six months, offering guidance through both the conceptual and technical stages of developing a project into book form.
Senior Advisors will meet monthly with their Fellows to explore each phase of the photo book making process, including concept development, editing, design, production, and publication. In addition to this one-on-one mentorship, Fellows will deepen their understanding of the photo book through educational sessions led by invited industry professionals, supporting them as they move toward publishing their first monograph.
Ron Jude
Ron Jude is an American photographer known for his conceptual approach to visual storytelling. His photographs explore themes of memory, identity, and place through evocative, understated images. His work often combines a documentary approach with outcomes that operate on a subconscious level, as seen in projects like Alpine Star (2006), Lick Creek Line (2012), and Nausea (1992). Jude frequently focuses on landscapes and vernacular imagery, creating open-ended narratives that encourage personal interpretation. His photographs have been widely exhibited, featured in numerous books, and collected internationally.
Jude earned a BFA in studio art from Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, in 1988, and an MFA from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1992. His photographs have been widely exhibited nationally and internationally and are held in the permanent collections of the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. Jude is the author of twelve books, including Emmett (2010); Lick Creek Line (2012); Lago (2015); Nausea (2017); and, 12Hz (2020). He has received grants or awards from Light Work; San Francisco Camerawork; the Aaron Siskind Foundation; and the Friends of Photography and was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2019.He is a Professor of Art and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Oregon and lives in Eugene.
Ron will advise Senior Fellow José Ibarra Rizo.
Raymond Meeks
Raymond Meeks lives and works in the Hudson Valley (New York). His work is represented in numerous private and public collections. He is the sixth laureate of Immersion, a French-American photography commission sponsored by Fondation d’entreprise Hermès. Exhibitions from this commission are scheduled for New York (ICP September, 2023) and Paris (Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson September, 2024). The Inhabitants, a book made in collaboration with writer George Weld, was published in August 2023 by MACK.
Raymond will advise Senior Fellow Will Matsuda.
Kristine Potter
Kristine Potter is an artist whose work explores masculine archetypes, the American landscape, and the cultural tendency to mythologize the past. Her first monograph, Manifest, was published by TBW Books in 2018. She has received numerous national and international awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2018), the Grand Prix Image Vevey (2019–2020), and the Hariban Prize (2023). Her second monograph, Dark Waters, was published by Aperture in 2023. Potter’s work is included in numerous public and private collections, such as the High Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Georgia Museum of Art, Light Work, the Swiss Camera Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Middle Tennessee State University and is represented by Sasha Wolf Projects in New York and MiCamera in Milan.
Kristine will advise Senior Fellow Michelle Arcila.