Artist Bio: Joe C. Aker is an internationally recognized artist and architectural photographer. He graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a degree in Photography. His artwork has been exhibited in solo and group shows across the United States. His work is in the permanent collection of the MFAH and many corporate and private collections, including a recent photographic sculpture for the George R. Brown Convention Center.

Artist Statement: The original image was photographed in the desert west of El Paso, Texas. It was first printed in 2007.

Artist Bio: A founding member of The Light Factory, Byron Baldwin's work has been exhibited widely and is included in collections of the High Museum; Bank of America; Library of Congress; R.J. Reynolds; State Museum of South Carolina; National Baseball Hall of Fame; Mint Museum; Levine Museum of the New South; and New Mexico State University. Representation: Hodges Taylor Art Consultancy, Charlotte, NC.

Artist Statement: This image is from my Central Avenue series, which I shot in the 1980s.

Artist Bio: Cara Barer was born in 1956 in Freeport, TX. She is currently living and working in Houston, Texas. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Lehigh University, UCLA Special Collections, and Latham and Watkins. Her work has been published in several books, including the cover of Art Made From Books by Chronicle Publishing.

Artist Statement: I transform books into art by sculpting them, dyeing them, and then through the medium of photography, presenting them anew as objects of beauty. I create a record of that book and its half-life.

Artist Bio: Alessandro Bo (b. Mexico City, 1982) studied photography at TAFE Queensland Institute, Australia. His work has been shown in Mexico, the United States, the Dominican Republic, and Australia. He also participated in the 18th Encuentro Nacional de Fototecas 2017, organized by the INAH, and he was a finalist for the RM Latin American Photobook Award in 2013. He received the PDN Street Photography Award in 2015.

Artist Statement: The Smail series is a collection of archival photographs around the arrival of foreigners in the city of San Miguel de Allende between the years 1950-1980, as well as original photographs captured by the author.

Artist Bio: Ana Casas Broda is a Mexican photographer known for Kinderwunsch, which was recognized as the best edited art book of 2014 by the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sports in Spain. Her photographs were featured in the Exposed/Espuesta exhibition at The Light Factory in 2017. Broda curated an exhibition in Mexico City in 2019 that featured work by Carolyn DeMeritt and Pinky/MM Bass.

Artist Statement: This is from Broda's series entitled Álbum.

Artist Bio: Jeff Brouws, born in San Francisco in 1955, is a self-taught artist. Pursuing photography since age 13, where he roamed the railroad and industrial corridors of the South Bay Peninsula, Brouws has compiled a visual survey of America's evolving rural, urban, and suburban cultural landscapes. Using photographs as subtle narrative and compiling typologies to index the nation's character, he revels in the "readymades" found in these environments.

Artist Bio: Mexican photographer Alejandro Cartagena lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His projects employ landscape and portraiture as a means to examine social, urban, and environmental issues. Cartagena's work has been exhibited internationally in more than 50 group and individual exhibitions. His work is in many museum collections, including the San Francisco MOMA, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Portland Museum of Art, and more.

Artist Statement: Cartagena has received several awards, including the international Photolucida Critical Mass Book Award, the Street Photography Award in London Photo Festival, the Lente Latino Award in Chile, and the Premio IILA-FotoGrafia Award in Rome.

Artist Bio: Tom Chambers is represented by six galleries in the United States and Europe. Since 1998 his images from eight photographic series have been shown nationally and internationally through 20 solo shows and over 70 group exhibitions, as well as in a wide range of print and online publications. His work is also in a number of museums and private collections worldwide.

Artist Statement: Exploring Iceland, I stretched to look underneath, above, and around the edges of the landscape. My photomontage series To the Edge celebrates the biodiversity of the natural world.

Artist Bio: scott b. davis works with large wooden cameras and makes hand-coated platinum palladium prints. His work has been exhibited worldwide and is found in museums, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Eastman Museum, and other prominent collections.

Artist Statement: This early night work from the year 2000 was made in homage to Timothy O'Sullivan, whose name can be found carved into the base of Inscription Rock, when his 1873 photograph of the monolith was made.

Artist Bio: Benjamin Dimmitt graduated from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL, and studied at the International Center of Photography. He has taught at International Center of Photography, Warren Wilson College, and Penland School of Craft. His work was exhibited at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, International Center of Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Griffin Museum, and Southeast Museum of Photography, among many others.

Artist Statement: This project explores the impact of climate change and resource mismanagement on a fragile spring-fed estuary on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Winter morning fog obscures the saltwater damage.

Artist Bio: Ralph Gibson (American, b. 1939) is a respected photographer known for his contrasting imagery and erotic subject matter. Gibson was born in Los Angeles, CA, and studied photography while in the U.S. Navy. He later attended the San Francisco Art Institute and worked as an assistant to Robert Frank and Dorothea Lange. Gibson has worked primarily with a Leica camera since the beginning of his career.

Artist Statement: From artsy.net: "In Gibson's high contrast black and white works, shadows often play a dynamic and even focal role."

Artist Bio: Maya Goded's photographs have been exhibited in the United States, Latin America, Europe, China, and Africa. Solo exhibits of her work have also been staged by some of the world's most prestigious museums and photography festivals and she has received many prestigious awards and grants, such as: Mother Jones Fund (San Francisco); the Eugene Smith and J. Simon Guggenheim, Memorial Foundation (New York); and others.

Artist Statement: Goded depicts people in difficult situations, whether it's the valiant among us whose refusal to conform constitutes a threat to established norms, or the vulnerable, whose lives are misshapen by the notions of power and control.

Artist Bio: Carol Golemboski has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Saltonstall Foundation. Her photographs can be found in the collections of the George Eastman Museum, the Denver Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She is a Professor of Photography at the University of Colorado Denver.

Artist Statement: "Trap Door" is a part of a series of manipulated gelatin silver prints that uses magic as a metaphor to suggest the wonder and mystery of darkroom photography.

Artist Bio: Graciela Iturbide was drawn to the art of still photography as practiced by the Mexican modernist master Manuel Alvarez Bravo. She has enjoyed solo exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou (1982), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1990), Philadelphia Museum of Art (1997), Paul Getty Museum (2007), MAPFRE Foudation, Madrid (2009), Photography Museum Winterthur (2009), and Barbican Art Gallery (2012), amongst others.

Artist Statement: In 1979 Iturbide was invited by Francisco Toledo to photograph the Juchitán people who form part of the Zapotec culture native to Oaxaca in southern Mexico. This resulted in the publication of Juchitán de las Mujeres.

Bio: Kent Krugh is a fine art photographer living and working in Cincinnati. His work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions both national and international and in major festivals including FotoFest (Houston) and the Festival de la Luz (Buenos Aires). His work is held in various collections, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, and the Cincinnati Art Museum.

Artist Statement: These tree portraits are composites, and by virtue of the process, can be considered "inverse panoramas." I circumambulate each tree, making many combined images of it through 360 degrees.

Bio: Eric T. Kunsman (b. 1975) was born and raised in Bethlehem, PA. While in high school, he was heavily influenced by the death of the steel industry and its place in American history. Currently, he is a photographer and book artist based out of Rochester, NY. Eric is a Lecturer at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Artist Statement: This image is from my series PRIVATE | Now Back Go : Go Back | PRIVATE.

Artist Bio: O. Rufus Lovett has lived in Longview, TX, for the past 40 years, teaching photography at Kilgore College and working as a fine art and editorial photographer. His work has appeared in Texas Monthly, People magazine, Gourmet, and others. The University of Texas Press has published three of his books: Weeping Mary, Kilgore Rangerettes, and Barbecue Crossroads: Notes and Recipes from a Southern Odyssey.

Artist Statement: This image is from the Weeping Mary series.

Artist Bio: Currently living in Charlotte, Sonia Handelman Meyer is a surviving member of the famed Photo League of New York, which included noted photographers of the mid-20th century. Her photographs are in collections of the Metropolitan Museum; Columbus Museum; Montgomery Museum; Jewish Museum; Mint Museum; and Bank of America. Representation: Hodges Taylor Art Consultancy, Charlotte.

Artist Statement: I made this photograph while a member of The New York Photo League. It is from my original negative and printed in 2007 by my wonderful printer, Carl Bergman.

Artist Bio: Bill Owens was born in San Jose, CA, on Sept. 25, 1938. Owens, with his cameras, is known as the foremost chronicler of Suburbia, made famous with the publication of his book by that name in 1972. Owens worked several years as a photojournalist, publishing a series of books.

Artist Bio: Tom Rankin is Professor of the Practice of Art and Documentary, Director of the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts at Duke University, and former Director of the Center for Documentary Studies. His writings have been published widely in numerous magazines, journals, and books and his photographs are included in numerous private and museum collections.

Artist Statement: This print is from the Sacred Space series in which I have photographed this same church throughout the last 20 years.

Artist Bio: Saul Robbins is interested in the ways people interact within their surroundings and psychological dynamics of intimacy. His photographs are motivated by observations of human behavior and personal history, especially related to loss, unity, failure, and the latent potential residing in personal history and traditional photographic materials. Robbins' work has been exhibited and published internationally and is represented by Kourosh Mahboubian Fine Art and at www.saulrobbins.com.

Artist Statement: Insula is an inquiry into light and space, an exploration of interior environments and their rendering on paper. These images are a record of meandering with camera, and of my observations while doing so.

Artist Bio: A North Carolina Visual Artist Fellowship recipient, Linda Foard Roberts completed her first monograph, PASSAGE, in 2016. Her photographs are in the collections of the Bechtler Museum, The Columbus Museum, Davidson College, Harry Ransom Center, Mint Museum of Art, Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego, New Orleans Museum of Art, and others. She is represented by SOCO Gallery and Sol del RIO in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Artist Statement: Using 8" x 10" cameras and preferring the imperfections of old lenses, "Infinity," from Theories of Wisdom, is rooted in philosophical inquiries about life and how wisdom is not always gained by sight.

Artist Bio: Oswaldo Ruiz (b. Monterrey, Mexico, 1977) received a Master of Fine Arts degree by Central Saint Martins College in London. He was the studio assistant of Graciela Iturbide. He has a dozen solo exhibitions and over fifty group shows. His awards include the First prize of the Photography Biennial of Centro de la Imagen (2018), and the Petrobras-Buenos Aires Photo Prize (2006).

Artist Statement: Named after a short story by Juan Rulfo, this series depicts a former territory of farmers in central Jalisco in Mexico that now is being surrounded by international enterprises that exploit the land and its inhabitants. Here a long-lived cactus known as Pitaya is found inside the facilities of a Monsanto experimental laboratory.

Artist Bio: Linda Rutenberg has worked as a fine art photographer for over 30 years. She has a BFA in film and music and an MFA in Photography from Concordia University in Montreal Quebec. She teaches, lectures, and creates photographic series, which evolve into books and exhibitions. She has published over fifteen publications. Her fine art work has been exhibited internationally.

Artist Statement: The donated work is from the English Garden at Night series.

Artist Bio: Traer Scott is an award-winning photographer and best-selling author of ten books, including Shelter Dogs (2006), Finding Home: Shelter Dogs and Their Stories (2015), City of Dogs (2018), and Radiant: Farm Animals Up Close and Personal (2018). Specializing in animal photography, the human/animal bond, and conservation-themed fine art photography, Scott's work has been exhibited around the world and has appeared in various publications.

Artist Statement: Dutch is one of 50 shelter dogs featured in my book Finding Home: Shelter Dogs and Their Stories. Dutch was adopted and returned several times before finding her home.

Artist Bio: Sara Silks had a solo show in New York at the Soho Photo Gallery in October of 2017. She was a finalist in Critical Mass and the international winner in two categories of the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards.

Artist Statement: "Natsukashii" is a Japanese word for the state of "feeling nostalgic" or "fond/sweet memory." I have been interested in the idea of creating calmness and silence in my work.

Artist Bio: Vaughn Sills' work has been shown in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and is in collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, DeCordova Museum, and the Harvard Art Museum. Her photographs have earned her a number of awards, and two books of her work have been published: Places for the Spirit: Traditional African American Gardens and One Family.

Artist Statement: Made just before dawn on Prince Edward Island, this photograph is part of a visual memoir about home, beauty, and loss titled True Poems Flee.

Artist Bio: Paul Strand was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe, and Africa. This photogravure edition of Strand's Mexico work celebrates the subjects' pride, dignity, and endurance.

Artist Statement: Gravures were pulled at the Andersen Lamb Company by Albert DeLong under Strand's direct supervision.

Artist Bio: Ken Van Sickle (b. 1932, American) was always a curious explorer of new technologies. Growing up in Brunswick, New York, he was intrigued by new gadgets introduced in the early 20th century, including a stop-motion camera which he owned at the age of seven. His retrospective photography portrays romantic, evanescent moments in New York and Paris during the 1950s.

Artist Statement: Van Sickle is represented by SOCO Gallery in Charlotte, NC.

Artist Bio: Born in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, Hiroshi Watanabe graduated from the Department of Photography of Nihon University in 1975. After producing five self-published books, his first collection to be published conventionally was I See Angels Every Day, which won Japan's 2007 Photo City Sagamihara Award. He has won multiple other awards, published numerous monographs, and his work is held in a variety of collections.

Artist Statement: About the Love Point series: "After I photographed the dolls, I photographed real human models dressed similarly. I wanted to puzzle and confuse what is real and what is not."

Artist Bio: Jeffrey Wolin is Halls Professor Emeritus of Photography at Indiana University. Wolin's photographs have been shown at museums in the U.S. and abroad. His photographs are in numerous museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; LA County Museum of Art; and others. Wolin is recipient of two Visual Artist Fellowships from the NEA and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Artist Statement: "Stevie" was originally made in 1988 at Bloomington's Pigeon Hill housing projects. I returned recently to find and rephotograph the original subjects for my book/exhibition, Pigeon Hill: Then & Now.

Artist Bio: Gesche Würfel's work has been exhibited, published, and awarded internationally. Würfel is the author of Basement Sanctuaries. She was named as the Juror's Pick for the LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2016, is a finalist in the 2017 and 2018 Lange-Taylor Award, and a Top 50 Critical Mass 2017 winner. Collecting institutions are the MIT Museum, MA, and the Portland Museum of Art, OR (USA).

Artist Statement: Basement Sanctuaries explores the ways in which superintendents decorate basements of apartment buildings in Northern Manhattan by illuminating the process of migrant adaptation to the metropolis.