Dates: March 3 – 7, 2009

Michael Bühler-Rose, born in New Jersey (1980), lives and works in New York. He received a Fulbright Fellowship to India, obtained his BFA (2005) from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and MFA (2008) from University of Florida. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Bühler-Rose has exhibited work at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Delhi; Bose Pacia, New York; Brancolini Grimaldi, Florence/Rome at Art Verona and Paris Photo; as well as with SK Stiftung Kultur/Die Photographische Sammlung at Art Cologne. His projects have been reviewed in The New York Times, Time Out New York, AM NY, Black Book, The Times of India and Rhizome.org and featured in Camera Austria, PDN (Photo District News), and American Photo on Campus. His work is held in the Sammlung Goetz, Munich, and in the Die Photographische Sammlung, Cologne.

Gerald Edwards III was born in 1985, and raised in Daytona Beach, FL. The Brooklyn-based artist studied at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and graduated with an award for creative excellence in 2007. Edwards has mentored under photographer Gregory Crewdson since 2004. Since then he has taken up with the notorious surf gang, The Goons, which has led to development of sustainable surfboard manufacturing materials, tree houses, and Bollywood style dance party beach cleanups. At the same time, and in a parallel universe, Edwards has been working with the collectives Visual Buffet Public Arts, and the alternative transportation environmental non-profit Blotus.org. His personal 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, Europe, and Japan.

Jon Feinstein is the curatorial director for the art-photography non-profit Humble Arts Foundation. He has curated photo exhibitions throughout NYC, most recently including "31 under 31: Young Women in Art Photography" at Brooklyn's 3rd Ward, and has collaborated on exhibitions with Spin Magazine and Mark Batty Publishers. His photos have been published in Gotham, Nylon, HEEB, New York Press, and Vice and have appeared in group shows in NYC, Detroit, Chicago, Miami, and San Francisco.

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. Ali has been exhibited locally and nationally. She has also received numerous awards and honors including the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award, an Alumni Scholarship Award from the School of Visual Arts, an Artist Initiative Grant form the Minnesota State Arts Board, and was a nominated participant in Review Santa Fe. In 2008, she earned her Masters in Photography, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She received her bachelors in photography from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design in Minnesota in 2002. In addition to developing her career in fine art photography, she has been an instructor at several institutions in Minnesota including Minneapolis College of Art & Design and the Arts Institute International Minnesota.

Marc McAndrews began taking pictures as a means to occupy himself during his family’s long car trips to Montreal every summer. It wasn’t until after much time spent out of the country, however, that he decided to set about documenting American culture. Shortly after returning home, he became the proud new owner of a 1990 GMC Vandura conversion van with 250,000 miles on it, which he bought on eBay for $510--put on some new brakes, loaded it up and began traveling the country. Now every year he sets out to travel the tiny back roads of the interior of the country. He still shoots mostly 4x5 and lights most subjects. Even though it’s a longer process, the time required to shoot this way adds to the photograph by allowing for the space to create rapport and build trust with the subject.

Bradley Peters was born in Columbus, Nebraska, in 1979. He received a BA from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln in 2004, with degrees in both Psychology and Art. In 2002 and 2003 he was awarded the UNL Creative Activities & Research Experiences Grant. He is also the recipient of the Jean R. Faulkner Memorial Award, the Gold Award from the Midwest Society for Photographic Education and the Richard Benson Prize. He is a 2008 graduate of the MFA program in Photography at the Yale University School of Art.

Peter Riesett currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His interest in photography began at a young age when he recognized the deeper meaning behind a static image. A graduate of Maryland Institute College of Art (B.F.A.) and the Pratt Institute (M.F.A.), Peter's work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and resides in the permanent collection at The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, as well as various private collections. Peter was recognized as a winner of the Flash Forward 2007: Emerging Photographers Competition, through The Magenta Foundation. He was awarded 'Honorable Mention' for his book of the series Testament by Blurb's 2008 Photography Book Now Competition. In November 2008, his work was published in Esquire magazine (Russian edition), to illustrate an essay by David Sedaris. Most recently, Peter's work has been selected for inclusion in the Humble Arts Foundation publication, The Collector's Guide To Emerging Art Photography.

David La Spina was born in Cincinnati, OH in 1981. After graduating from the arts-friendly Wyoming High School in 1999, he earned a BFA at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2006. Since 2003, he has worked as an archivist at the architectural photography firm Esto in Mamaroneck, NY. David is currently pursuing his M.F.A. at Yale University. His work has appeared in Blind Spot, WIRE and the New York Times Magazine.

Tina Tyrell, born in 1978 in Los Angeles, began photographing at the age of 16. Two years later, she decided to devote herself to photography and enrolled full time in a BFA program at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. After graduating, she moved to NYC where she began a career as an editorial photographer, working with clients that include: The New York Times, Wallpaper, Interview, The Sunday Telegraph UK, New York Magazine, Details, and The New Yorker among many others.

Born in Hong Kong, Ann Woo is a photographer and lives in New York. Woo studied at ICP in 2007 and received a degree in Fashion Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1997. Her work has been published in various publications and most recently her work was exhibited at the Bond Street Gallery in New York and her sunset photographs were published in PIN-UP, a New York-based architecture magazine.

Gerald Edwards III

Jon Feinstein

Alison Malone


Marc McAndrews


Bradley Peters


Peter Riesett


David La Spina


Tina Tyrell


Ann Woo


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