Tag: Illinois

Alisa O’Connor

Alisa O’Connor is a photographer and photo editor originally hailing from southern Illinois. Now based in New York, she has worked extensively as a photo editor in music, travel, and…

Nadia Stiegman

Nadia Stiegman grew up on her family’s grain farm in Thawville, Illinois. She graduated from Illinois State University in Normal, IL with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Studio…

David Schalliol

David Schalliol an assistant professor of sociology at St. Olaf College and principal with Scrappers Film Group – an organization interested in the relationship between community and place. His photographs…

Danny Klein

Danny Klein is a Chicago based photographer born in 1994. His inspiration for making pictures derives from the skateboard culture. This fast paced experience opened doors to creativity that he…

Barbara Diener

Born in 1982 in Germany, Barbara Diener received her BFA in Photography from the California College of the Arts and MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago. Her work has…

Andrew Skoda

Andrew Paul Skoda (b. 1993, Illinois) was raised and attended high school on the far edge of the Southside of Chicago. He grew fond of making photographs when his father…

Sunny Strader

Sunny Strader (b. 1991) is a documentary photographer based in Los Angeles and Danville, her 35,000-person hometown in central Illinois. Sunny’s work is inspired by her Midwestern upbringing and the…

Thomas Jordan

Thomas Jordan is an American photographer, living and working in Winfield, Illinois. Photographing in the area where he was born, Thomas finds inspiration in the Northwest Chicago Suburbs. He is…

John Kilbane

John Michael Kilbane is a photographer from Illinois. He studied literature at Marquette University and University College London and has since held jobs in publishing and at an independent bookstore…

Erika Ritzel

I grew up in Carbondale, Illinois and now live in Minneapolis. I received her BFA from Webster University in St. Louis and her MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art…

Kalin Haydon

Kalin Haydon is a photographer from Edwardsville, IL. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 2012, and is a current MFA candidate at Columbia…

Workers Changing Sign, Las Vegas Blvd, 1987

Jay Wolke

Jay Wolke is an artist and educator living in Chicago, Illinois. His photographic monographs include: All Around the House: Photographs of American-Jewish Communal Life, 1998; Along the Divide: Photographs of the…

Tytia Habing

Tytia Habing lives and works in Watson, Illinois very near where she grew up on a working farm. Having spent most of her adult life living in the Cayman Islands,…

Emmett Methven

Emmett Methven was born in Christchurch, New Zealand on Christmas Day 1992. For much of his childhood he lived in a suburb of New York City. He also spent time…

Natalie Krick

Natalie Krick (b. 1986) lives in Seattle, Washington. She received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in 2008 and her MFA in Photography from Columbia College…

Dan Mrotek

Dan Mrotek (b. 1989, Illinois) is an artist based in Chicago. Dan recently received his BA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago, where he was an intern at the Museum…

Mel Keiser

Mel(v.6)—or “Mel Keiser”—was born from Mel(v.4/5) sometime in 2014. She was born in Evanston, IL, where she works as the Department Assistant for Northwestern University’s Department of Art History. Arguably…

Matthew Avignone

Matthew Avignone is a Korean-American photographer born in 1987. In 2011, he obtained is B.A. in photography from Columbia College, Chicago. He has been exhibited at the Aperture Foundation, the…

Doug Fogelson

Doug Fogelson studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College Chicago. His photographic works are included in collections at The J. Paul Getty Center, The…

Whit Forrester

December 24, 1983 Pago Pago, American Samoa 21:20 Raised in Kentucky, USA School in Ohio and Chicago Currently lives in Chicago, Illinois, USA Interested in the ways in which we…

Clarissa Bonet

Clarissa Bonet Lives and works in Chicago.  Her current work explores aspects of the urban space in both a physical and psychological context.  She received her M.F.A. in photography from…

Jonathan Pivovar

Jonathan Pivovar is a photographer currently based in Chicago, Illinois although he often spends time in Brooklyn, New York. Jonathan is a book maker, record collector, cook, fabricator, preparator, friend, brother,…

Barbara Diener

Barbara Diener was born in 1982 in Germany. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography from the California College of the Arts and Masters of Fine Art in Photography…

Carly Ries

Carly Ries currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was awarded the Bruce Goodman Fellowship for photography.…