Photography’s unique act of looking allows artists to observe the world around them while also turning the lens inward, offering a more expansive examination of how society represents itself and how it is represented. This selection of episodes from the PhotoWork archive explores the varied… Read More »Portraiture & Representation
Curators Marina Chao & Adam Ryan (CPW) join PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf to discuss the inaugural Upstate Photography Biennial and the curatorial process behind this major contemporary photography exhibition. Chao, Ryan, and Wolf explore how CPW develops exhibitions with both the local community and broader… Read More »Marina Chao & Adam Ryan
We are pleased to announce the conclusion of the 2026 PhotoWork Junior Fellowship. Over the past six months, our six Junior Fellows have grown significantly as artists under the guidance of their dedicated Mentors. This program fostered creative exploration, supported the development of new working… Read More »Celebrating the 2026 PhotoWork Junior Fellows
New York, NY | Mentor: Rahim Fortune Based between New York City and his hometown of Baltimore, Dahveed Wilkins is an artist and documentarian with a darkroom based practice. His work centers around traditional photo-documentary and surrealist self-portraiture work with a focus on archiving Black life… Read More »Dahveed Wilkins
Houston, TX | Mentor: Kelli Connell Avery Norman is a Texas born photographer currently based in New York City. She graduated from Pratt Institute in 2022 with a BFA in Photography, followed by the International Center of Photography’s year long creative practices program in 2023. Her… Read More »Avery Norman
Little Rock, AR | Mentor: Bryan Schutmaat Jacobb Nichol is a documentary photographer from Arkansas whose work explores growing up, identity, and belonging in the American South. Through long-term projects, he focuses on the people and places that are often overlooked, creating images built through relationships,… Read More »Jacobb Nichol
Brooklyn, NY & Rockbridge, VA | Mentor: Barbara Bosworth Claire Kosky is an artist who creates compassionate examinations of interactions between humans and the natural world using a view camera. Drawing on her upbringing in rural Virginia, she travels from her current home in Brooklyn to… Read More »Claire Kosky
Atlanta, Georgia | Mentor: Dannielle Bowman Brayan Enriquez (b. 2000) is a first-generation Mexican American artist based in Atlanta, GA. He holds a BFA in Photography from the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University. Enriquez is a recipient of Aperture… Read More »Brayan Enriquez
New York, NY | Mentor: Irina Rozovsky Yuhan Cheng is a Chinese photographer and filmmaker based in New York and Chengdu. Working primarily with analog photography, film, and installation, they make autobiographical work about intimacy, migration, gender, family, and the unstable meaning of home. Cheng processes… Read More »Yuhan Cheng
Photographers Jarod Lew and Reagan Louie join PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf to discuss how they explore cultural identity, personal loss, and trauma through photography. Lew and Louie are Asian American photographers from different generations, and their work reflects how the exploration of cultural identity in… Read More »Reagan Louie & Jarod Lew