Tisch School of the Arts Photography and Imaging Faculty
Catherine Fallon is an adjunct professor at New York University’s Tisch School of Art Department of Photography & Imaging, and the former digital master printer for Gilles Peress. She has had residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada; the MacDowell Colony; and the Ucross Foundation. Her photographic work has been exhibited at A.I.R. Gallery, New York; Blue Sky Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, Oregon; City Gallery, New York; and Soho 20, New York.
Mark Jenkinson is the author of over 30 participatory/adventure journalism feature stories on sports such as car racing, luge, motorcycle racing, speed skiing, and adventure travel for Men’s Journal, Unlimited, Fortune, Town & Country, Men’s Health, Cargo, Discovery, and Flaunt, as well as human interest and celebrity/business personality profiles. He has had group and solo exhibitions at Light Gallery, Daniel Wolf Gallery, O.K. Harris Gallery, International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, Parsons School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, San Francisco Art Institute, Cooper Union and others. Mark is currently working in the areas of editorial, corporate and advertising photography, with an estimated 30,000 photographs published in virtually every major magazine in the world. He has won numerous awards for photography including the Meade, AR 100, and Society of Publication Design awards for corporate and editorial photography. His fine art photography is represented by Andrea Meislin Gallery.
Elizabeth Kilroy is an award-winning multimedia designer with a background in graphic design, theater and installation. She is the founder of ElizabethK Studio, a new media firm, serving a wide variety of clients, cultural, artistic and commercial. She has taught design and web design at Temple University and the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, in addition to the Department of Photography & Imaging. As a counterpoint to the computer, Elizabeth is currently designing a toy collection and keeps a craft blog which focuses on the renaissance of hand made crafts and how that is fueled by the Internet. Her goal is to find a way to help traditional craft makers from impoverished countries use technology to sell their goods.
Peter Lucas has taught at Columbia University as a lecturer of peace education in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, at The New School, Bogazici University, and Istanbul University. His research and teaching focuses on international studies in human rights, human rights and photography, human rights and media, the poetics of witnessing, peace education, and human rights education and documentary practice. His current projects include a study of seven photojournalists for the Rio-based web portal, Viva Favela. His book, Viva Favela: Photojournalism, Visual Inclusion, and Human Rights in Brazil is forthcoming. As a photographer and collector, Peter Lucas focuses on family photography and found photography. He has exhibited in several galleries in New York. His current projects include The Last Hour of Summer, an exhibition and book of 200 small black and white photographs found in a Rio flea market of women on the beach in the summer of 1963. The project traces the ephemeral beauty and saudade of Rio in the last days before the military coup in 1964 and the last summer before the widespread introduction of Kodacolor film. In 2007 this project will be exhibited at the prestigious photography museum, Instituto Moreira Salles in Rio. Peter’s own photo projects include The Melancholy of Summer, an ongoing portfolio of original photos recalling the era of small Kodacolor snapshots from the 1960s. The subject of the portfolio is children and the beach with the mood evoking the end of a summer’s day, the last day of summer, and the end of childhood.
Elaine Mayes studied photography and painting at the California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco Art Institute) with John Collier, Jr., Minor White, Richard Diebenkorn and Nathan Oliviera. She taught at the University of Minnesota, Hampshire College, Bard College, Pratt Institute, The Cooper Union and The International Center of Photography before beginning at NYU in 1983. Her solo exhibitions include the Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York; Sandra Berler Gallery, Maryland; The Minneapolis Institute of Art; Rhode Island School of Design; the San Francisco Art Institute; Robert Burge Fine Arts, New York City; 7 International Fototage, Mannheim, Germany; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Honolulu and others. Represented in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Corcoran Gallery; George Eastman House; The Dallas Museum of Fine Art; Seattle Art Museum; Photokina in Germany; the Katten Kabinet in Amsterdam; the Friends of Photography in San Francisco; the International Center of Photography in New York; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and others. Elaine has had work published in Aperture, Modern Photography, Popular Photography, Art In America, MOJO Magazine, The New Yorker and in various books including her publication, "It Happened In Monterey," Britannia Press, 2002. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, A New York State CAPS Fellowship, a Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship, an Atherton Foundation Fellowship, and an NYU Senior Faculty Development Grant. She has also been artist-in-residence at Lightwork, Syracuse University; and the Hui No'Eau Visual Arts Center in Makawao, Maui. She was Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging from 1997 until retirement from teaching in 2001. Currently she is Professor Emerita.
Fred Ritchin is professor of Photography & Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is also the director of PixelPress (www.pixelpress.org), creating web sites, books and exhibitions investigating new documentary strategies and promoting human rights. He is the author of After Photography (2008) and In Our Own Image: The Coming Revolution in Photography (1990, 1999). Currently he is working on a new book, The Useful Image, on photography and social change. He is also a co-author of An Uncertain Grace: The Photographs of Sebastião Salgado (1990); In Our Time: The World As Seen by Magnum Photographers (1989); and Mexico Through Foreign Eyes (1993). Ritchin is the former picture editor of Horizon magazine and the New York Times Magazine, former executive editor of Camera Arts magazine and the founding director of the photojournalism and documentary photography educational program at the International Center of Photography. He was the curator of such exhibits as Contemporary Latin American Photographers (1987); An Uncertain Grace: The Photographs of Sebastião Salgado (1990); The Legacy of W. Eugene Smith: Twelve Photographers in the Humanistic Tradition (1991), and co-curator of Mexico Through Foreign Eyes: Photographs, 1850-1990 (1993). Ritchin has contributed essays on media to several books, including Under Fire: Great Photographers and Writers on the Vietnam War (2005); Sahel: Man in Distress (2004); The Critical Image (1990); Photo Video: Photography in the Age of the Computer (1991); A New History of Photography (1994); National Geographic Photos: Milestones (1999). He also edited The End of Polio (2003), with photographs by Sebastião Salgado. Ritchin was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in public service by the New York Times for the Web site, Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace (1997), which he co-created with photographer Gilles Peress. In 1994-95 he also created the first multimedia version of the daily New York Times. Ritchin lectures and conducts workshops internationally on new media and documentary.
Magnum Photographers
Susan Meiselas (www.susanmeiselas.com) received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.A. in visual education from Harvard University. Her first major photographic essay focused on the lives of women doing striptease at New England country fairs. She photographed the carnivals during three consecutive summers while teaching photography in the New York public schools. Meiselas joined Magnum Photos in 1976 and has worked as a freelance photographer since then. She is well-known for her coverage of the insurrection in Nicaragua and her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America, including the El Mozote massacre in El Salvador. Her books include Carnival Strippers, Nicaragua, June 1978-1979, El Salvador: Work of 30 Photographers, Encounters with the Dani and Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History. Meiselas has had one-woman exhibitions in Paris, Madrid, Amsterdam, London, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. Her work is included in American and international collections. Honorary awards of recognition include: the Robert Capa Gold Medal for “outstanding courage and reporting” by the Overseas Press Club for her work in Nicaragua (1979); the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University for her coverage of Latin America (1994); and more recently, the Cornell Capa Infinity Award (2005). In 1992, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. A major U.S. overview highlighting key moments in her documentary process was exhibited at the International Center of Photography in the fall of 2008, with an accompanying book Susan Meiselas: In History. She is presently a Professor at Leiden University, the Netherlands, within the Masters of Photographic Studies. To view work done with Human Rights Watch on Magnum in Motion, please visit: http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/costlydream.
In 1972, Gilles Peress (www.magnumphotos.com/gillesperess) began documenting immigration in Europe. This work continues in his current ongoing project, Hate Thy Brother, a cycle of documentary narratives that looks at intolerance and it’s consequences. His books include Haines; A Village Destroyed; The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar; The Silence: Rwanda; Farewell to Bosnia and Telex Iran. His work has been widely exhibited and is collected by the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, PS1, all in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Getty Museum in Los Angeles; the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; the V&A in London; the Musée d'Art Moderne, the Picasso Museum, Parc de la Villette and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; the Museum Folkwang, Essen; the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, among others. Awards and fellowships Peress has received include: The Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts grants, Pollock-Krasner and New York State Council of the Arts fellowships, the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography and the International Center of Photography Infinity Award. Portfolios of his work have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Sunday Times Magazine, Du magazine, Life, Stern, Geo, Paris-Match, Parkett, Aperture and the New Yorker. Peress is professor of Human Rights and Photography at Bard College, NY and Senior Research Fellow at the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley. Peress joined Magnum Photos in 1971 and served three times as vice-president and twice as president of the co-operative. He and his wife, Alison Cornyn, live in Brooklyn with their three children.
