PHOTOGRAPHY EDUCATION
Attended Art Institute of Boston and the New England School of Photography in the 1990s. During this period also attended Maine Photographic Workshops, taking “intensives” with Jerry Berndt, Mary Ellen Mark, and Sylvia Plachy. Has continued to refine documentary philosophy and skills in Maine Media Workshops with photo-journalist Dominic Chavez (2009) & Sylvia Plachey (2013).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 “Deep Inside the Blues” (38 B&W photographs from the project) University of Connecticut, Thomas Dodd Research Center, Storrs, CT
2004-‘05 “Deep Inside the Blues” (38 B&W photographs from the project) National Heritage Museum, Lexington, MA
2002 “Deep Inside the Blues” (38 B&W photographs from the project) Arlington Center for the Arts, exhibit funded by an Arlington Arts Council Grant, and received Massachusetts Cultural Council Priority Endorsement as “Exemplary Project.”
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 Griffin Museum of Photography 19th Juried Exhibition
2013 Cambridge Art Association’s 12th National Prize Show
2012 Arlington Center for the Arts Members Exhibit Juror’s Award of Excellence
2011 Texas Photographic Society 20 International Competition, Second Place
2010 Texas Photographic Society 24th Annual Show, Honorable Mention
2010 Cambridge Art Association Northeast Prize Show
2010 Danforth Museum of Art New England Photography Biennial
2009 Griffin Museum of Photography 15th Juried Exhibition
2008 Griffin Museum of Photography 14th Juried Exhibition
2002 Lancaster Museum of Art's Photo National Exhibition
2001 Photographic Resource Center Members' Exhibition, Juror Award Winner
REVIEWS
March 27, 2015: New York Times Lens Blog. Twenty-two photographs from “Deep Inside the Blues,” with feature story by Fayemi Shakur (“Documenting the Blues in the Mississippi Delta”), placing the work in the documentary tradition of folklorist John Lomax and writer Amiri Baraka. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/27/documenting-the-blues-in-the-mississippi-delta/
January 16, 2015: Twenty-three photographs chosen by critic Jonathan Blaustein for his influential blog, “A Photo Editor.”
CONTRIBUTING WRITER AND PHOTOGRAPHER
1998 to Present: Living Blues, the premier “Magazine of the African American Blues Tradition,” published at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.
ORAL HISTORIES in LIVING BLUES MAGAZINE
Luther “Guitar Jr.” Johnson, Issue 142, Nov - Dec 1998
Sam Carr, Issue 171, Volume 35, #1 2004
T-Model Ford, Issue 187, Volume 36, #6 2006
Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Issue 194, Volume 39, #1 2009
Calvin “Fuzz” Jones, Issue 194, Volume 39, #1 2009
LC Ulmer, Issue 212, Volume 42, #2 2011
Earnest “Guitar” Roy, Issue 216, Volume 42, #6 2011
Shirley Lewis, Issue 222, Volume 43, #6 2012
“Cadillac” John Nolden, Issue 223, Volume 44, #1 2013
Robert “Bilbo”Walker, Issue 228, Volume 44, (see cover photo below), #6 2013
Mickey Rogers, Issue 235, Volume 47, #1 2015
James “Super Chikan” Johnson, Issue 241, Volume 47, #1 2016
Joshua “Razorblade” Stewart, Issue 241, Volume 47, #1 2016
Toni Lynn Washington, Issue 243, Volume 47, #3 2016
Cedric Burnside, Issue 248, Volume 48, #1 2017, (see cover photo below), followed by a companion sidebar / Kenny Brown
Garry Burnside, Issue 253, Volume 49, #1 2018
The Stone Gas Band, Issue 261, Volume 50, #3 2019
CD COVERS
Cedric Burnside and Lightnin Malcolm, “Juke Joint Duo,” Soul Cheap Records, 2007.
David Maxwell, “Maximum Blues Piano,” Tone Cool Records, 2001.
Luther “Guitar Jr.” Johnson, Live at the Rynborn,” M.C. Records, 1999.
