Elizabeth Weinberg, New York

Elizabeth Weinberg was born and raised in the wilds of Massachusetts and graduated with a degree in Photojournalism from Boston University in 2004. She migrated south to Brooklyn, where the rooftops are bigger and the night is longer, in early 2005. Her clients include SPIN, NYLON, Giant, Mass Appeal, TOKION (Japan), and Alarm, as well as several record labels. She loves living on a tour bus, the woods, riding her bicycle, and she is looking for a vintage moped.

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Claire Beckett, Boston

Claire Beckett is a photographer based in Boston, MA. A native of Chicago, IL, she earned a BA in Anthropology from Kenyon College (Gambier, OH) in 2000 and an MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art (Boston, MA) in 2006. Claire Beckett is represented by the Carroll and Sons Gallery (formerly called the Bernard Toale Gallery) in Boston. Her photographs have been show in recent solo exhibitions at the Bernard Toale Gallery and at the University of Rhode Island, as well as in group exhibitions at the Photographic Resource Center, Boston University and Simmons College. Claire Beckett is a 2007 recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant. From 2002-2004 she worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Benin, West Africa. Beckett is an Assistant Professor of Photography at the New England Institute of Art in Boston.

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Gerald Edwards III, New York

Born 1985, Daytona Beach, Florida, the Brooklyn-based artist and photographer Gerald Edwards III studied at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and in between working with the collectives Visual Buffet and Team Big Tooth, Edwards has mentored under photographer Gregory Crewdson since 2004. His work deals with the reconstruction and fabrication of histories through composited large-format photographs and sculptural elements. He has exhibited in the United States, Canada, and Japan.

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Lucas Foglia, Connecticut

Lucas Foglia was raised on a small family farm in Huntington, Long Island. A graduate of Brown University and a current MFA candidate at Yale School of Art, Foglia exhibits nationally. His photographs are included in permanent collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Fine Art, Newport Art Museum, Margulies Collection, Light Work, Woodstock Center for Photography, David Winton Bell Gallery of Brown University, Starr Foundation, and Sprint Systems of Photography. Foglia has been an Artist-in-Residence at Light Work, and recent awards include the “Top 50 Photographers” chosen by Photolucida’s Critical Mass, “Photography Now” from the Center for Photography at Woodstock and Magenta Foundation’s “Flash Forward 2008.”

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Joshua Lutz, New York

Joshua Lutz is an artist living and working in New York City. He received his undergraduate degree from Bard College and his masters from Bard College at the International Center of Photography. Joshua is the recipient of The Tierney Fellowship, Best Editorial awards from Photo District News and Communication Arts and also named one of PDN’s top 30 emerging photographers. His work has been featured in publications ranging from The New Yorker and Harper’s to The New York Times Magazine. He is currently on the Faculty at The International Center of Photography.

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Dave Jordano, Chicago

Dave Jordano was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1948. He received a BFA in photography from the Center for Creative Studies in 1974. In 1977 he opened a commercial photography studio in Chicago and quickly established a client list that included, among others, Crate & Barrel, Starbucks Coffee, Sears, Nestle, Quaker and Kraft Foods. As an emerging fine art photographer, he was awarded an honorable mention in the Houston Center for Photography’s Long Term Fellowship Project in 2003 and received the Curator’s Choice Award the following year. His photographs are included in several private and public collections including the Federal Reserve Bank, the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chilcago IL, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He lives and works in Chicago IL.

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Aaron Ruell, Los Angeles

Aaron Ruell was born in Fresno, California, but grew up in Clovis, California. He was recently awarded “Best Advertising” for his work with Citibank and “Best Website” in the 2007 PDN Annual. He is also known for playing the role of Kipland Ronald Dynamite (Kip) in the comedy, Napoleon Dynamite.

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Alison Malone, New York

Alison Malone is a photographer based in New York City. Her work examines the nuanced relationship between people and how they exist in the world. She is constantly exploring new ways to observe the significance of the everyday occurrences in people, places and objects that surround them while searching for the subtle threads that connect us all. Her current body of work is titled “The Daughters of Job”. It portrays a secret society of girls ranging in age from 10 to 20 years old that are the daughters and granddaughters of Freemasons. The images are concerned with the psychology of identity formation through traditional ritual and role-playing within a patriarchal organization. They observe the girls in the society and the spaces where these rites occur.

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Brian Ulrich, Chicago

Chicago-based Brian Ulrich’s photographs portraying contemporary consumer culture reside in major museum collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. He earned his MFA in photography at Columbia College Chicago and a BFA in photography at the University of Akron. It is this understanding of history that informs much of his work which today addresses issues social, political and historical.

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Jacqueline Di Milia, New York

Jacqueline Di Milia grew up in America’s first mass produce suburbia, Levittown, New York. In Spring of 2005 she received a BFA in Photography from the School Of Visual Arts. After a few years of photo assisting with wide range of photographers, including Danielle Levitt and Cass Bird, she began shooting editorially in 2006. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York and obsessively watches French New Wave films. We interviewed her recently.

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