The PhotoWork Fellowship serves early-career photographers in developing a body of work and refining their visual voice and their creative process through the guided mentorship of a select group of established photographers working within the post-documentary tradition.

For these purposes, we are defining post-documentary photography as work that emerges from the photographer’s personal engagement with the real world with an emphasis on a subjective, lyrical approach to picture making and storytelling. The post-documentary approach maintains its connection to documentary photography, but is generally opposed to the literal and restrictive styles associated with traditional documentary, journalistic, or editorial photography, and favors individual artistic style.

Through these efforts, the PhotoWork Foundation celebrates the individual artists and their craft while raising awareness and appreciation of the post-documentary genre and cultivating a supportive audience for the work of our Fellows and Mentors.

2024 Fellows

Molly D’Arcy

Brooklyn, New York

Mentor: Andrea Modica

Molly D’Arcy is an American artist (b.1997) living and working in New England. She began making short films as a child, an interest which blossomed into a passion for darkroom photography. Her work centers around themes of journeying and destination. Spirituality has been part of her life since childhood and continues to play a central role in her photographic practice today.

www.molly-darcy.com | @mollydarcy

Brandon Holland

New Orleans, Louisiana

Mentor: Doug DuBois

Brandon Holland is a New Orleans-born art and documentary photographer. His work is concerned with environment, kinship, blackness, and the delicate nature of things. He uses photography as a means of preservation and connecting with the world around him. He splits time working and living in Baltimore and New Orleans.

www.brandonhollandphoto.com | @brandon.content

Will Suiter

Bayside, California

Mentor: Kristine Potter

Will Suiter is an artist working in photography, based in Humboldt County, California. He was born 1999 in the San Francisco Bay Area suburbs, and grew up sharing time between the urban SF Bay Area and rural Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. He moved to rural Humboldt County in 2017 to study forestry at Humboldt State University, and the isolated, remote geography and rural culture of the region has informed much of his work since.

In 2020, the pandemic shutdown prompted him to leave undergraduate studies to practice photography independently, and he now works full time on both personal and commissioned projects incorporating photography and design. He is also an experienced woodworker, and crafts custom frames using wood species found in the Northern California and Pacific Northwest region as a part of the tangible presentation and installation of his work.

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www.willsuiter.com | @willsuiter

2024 Mentors

Doug DuBois

Syracuse, New York

Fellow: Brandon Holland

Doug DuBois received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and is an associate professor at Syracuse University where he teaches in the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

The Aperture Foundation published his two monographs, My Last Day at Seventeen (2105) and All the Days and Nights (2009). Doug DuBois’ photographs also appear in exhibition catalogues from Irish Museum of Modern Art, Second Sight: The David Kronn Collection (2014); the J. Paul Getty Museum, Where We Live: Photographs from the Berman Collection (2007); the Museum of Modern Art, The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort (1991); and in magazines including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Details, GQ, Black Book, The Telegraph (London) and Granta.

Doug DuBois’ photographs are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in NY, SFMOMA in San Francisco, J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, The Museum of Fine Art in Houston, the Library of Congress in Washington DC and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell Colony, The National Endowment for the Arts, SITE Santa Fe and The John Gutmann Foundation. Doug DuBois has exhibited at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Museo D’arte Contemporanea (MARCO) in Rome, The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; the Aperture Foundation, Higher Pictures and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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www.dougdubois.com | @dougjamesdubois

Andrea Modica

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Fellow: Molly D’Arcy

Andrea Modica’s photographs are part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the George Eastman House and the Bibliotheque Nationale, among others. Her solo exhibitions include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts. A graduate of the Yale School of Art, Andrea Modica is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar.

Her monographs include Treadwell, Barbara, Minor League, Human Being, Fountain, L’Amici del Cuore, As We Wait, January 1, Lentini, Reveal, 2020 andTheatrum Equorum.

Modica lives in Philadelphia, where she works as a photographer and teaches at Drexel University.

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www.andreamodica.com | @andreamodica.photo

Kristine Potter

Nashville, Tennessee

Fellow: Will Suiter

Kristine Potter (1977) is an artist based in Nashville, Tennessee, whose work explores masculine archetypes, the American landscape, and cultural tendencies toward mythologizing the past. Her first monograph Manifest was published by TBW Books in 2018. Her second monograph Dark Waters is being published by Aperture in the summer of 2023.

Potter was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018 and was awarded the Grand Prix Image Vevey for 2019-2020. Potter’s work is in numerous public and private collections including that of The High Museum of Art, The Georgia Museum of Art, the Swiss Camera Museum, and Foundation Vevey. Potter is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at Middle Tennessee State University and is represented by Sasha Wolf Projects.

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www.kristinepotter.com | @kristine_potter

About the Fellowship

Three Fellows are selected by a jury of industry experts to participate in a six-month, one-on-one mentorship. 

Each Fellow is carefully paired with an established photography Mentor who we believe will best fit the work and needs of each Fellow. Fellowship Mentors include, but are not limited to, Jess T. Dugan, Doug DuBois, Rahim Fortune, Andrea Modica, and Kristine Potter. 

Fellows attend once-a-month online critique sessions to develop a photographic project of their choice through discussions around artistic vision, individual artistic practice, and written and oral explanations of their work. 

Fellows receive the following support:

*Ten short-list applicants receive a portfolio review with an industry expert chosen by the PhotoWork Foundation. Short-list applicants’ application fees will be waived for the following Fellowship application period.