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Nov. 20, 2012: THOMAS ROMA

This coming week, our VALS team is very proud and honored to present our very own Tom Roma:

From “Dark Knights and Dark Horses” 2010

Twice the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships, Thomas Roma’s work has been exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions including the MoMA and the International Center of Photography. His books include: “Come Sunday,” “Found in Brooklyn,” “Show & Tell,” “Sanctuary,” “Sicilian Passage” and “In Prison Air.” He has taught photography since 1983 at Yale, Fordham, Cooper Union, and The School of Visual Arts and, in 1996, became the Director of Photography here at Columbia University School of the Arts. His work is in numerous collections, including SF MoMA, The Art Institute of Chicago, LACMA, and The Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal. He is also a founding contributing photographer to DoubleTake Magazine. Roma is a builder of, among many other things, baseball bats, motorcycles, and of course, cameras.

From “Sicilian Passage” 2003 

More information can be found here:

www.thomasroma.com

The Days of Yore Interview

From “Higher Ground” 1999
From “In Prison Air” 2005