Matthew Morrocco

Mary Ellen Mark has created an extraordinary body of work of the course of prolific career that spans over four decades.  Her images of our world’s diverse cultures have become landmarks in the field of documentary photography.  Most recently, Mary Ellen received the 2014 Lifetime Achievement in Photography Award from the George Eastman House as well as the Outstanding Contribution Photography Award from the World Photography Organization.  She has received many awards over the years, not least among them an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a Guggenheim Fellowship three National Endowment of the Arts grants, and three Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards.  She has published 18 books including, most recently, Prom in 2012, and Man and Beast: Photographs from Mexico and India, in 2014.  She has exhibited worldwide.

Lucky Tiger #35, 2009

Laurel Nakadate is an American photography and video artist living in New York City. Her work engages themes of seduction, power, loss, intimacy and betrayal. She explores the possibilities and limits of sexuality and gender roles. In her most recent work she attempts to trace her genealogy through photographs of distant relatives. Nakadate is also writer and director of the films, “Stay the Same Never Change” from 2009 which was an official selection at Sundance Film Festival, and “The Wolf Knife,” from 2011. Nakadate’s work has been shown at MoMA PS1, in a 2005 survey of emerging artists, “Greater New York,” and with a solo show, “Only the Lonely,” in 2011. She received her MFA from Yale University where she is currently a lecturer.

Strangers in the Night: Laurel Nakadate Meets Her Relatives

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Laurel will be giving studio visits with Cy Gavin and Rachel Stern

Still from 2pacalypse Now, 2013

Project Thug Life Fitness

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