Curriculum Vitae
Writing Roles
Independent Writer and Critic
Published essays on photography an art in magazines including Exposure, Fotoii, Good Game, The Photo Review, Art India, Photographers International, Fiber Arts, and others. Blogged at Image World.
Editor / Publications Director, Bryn Mawr College
Developed editorial plan and art direction for quarterly alumnae magazine (print and web), including writing, assigning articles and artwork, copyediting, proofreading, and production.
Communications, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
Conceptualized and produced alumni magazine, research review, and monthly newsletter. Implemented award-winning redesign of Drupal-based website and subsidiary sites. Site was awarded the Interactive Media Awards Best In Class: College 2008.
Senior Lecturer, University of the Arts
Designed and taught course sequence for photo majors, Critical Issues in Photography and Contemporary Issues in Photography.
Senior Editor,
The Photo Review
Editorial, writing, design and production for two newsletters and quarterly magazine.
Publications
(partial list)
The Hiker and the Flaneur, in Making Tracks: Reflections on Walking, ed. Ann de Forest (expected May 2022)
Now and Then: Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s to Majority Minority, Exposure, 2018
Call and Response: An Exploration of Photography and Writing, ed. Julianna Foster, 2017
The Strange Case of Julianna Foster, Good Game Magazine, 2015
On Pixels and Pickles: A Conversation with Frank Rodick, Image World, 2015
Nancy Hellebrand and the Spiritual Discipline of Digital Photography, The Photo Review 30:1, 2011
The Charnel House and the Peep Show, Image World, 2010
Sex, Death and Videotape: Frank Rodick’s Arena Photographs, Buenos Aires: Galeria Arte X Arte, Fall 2004
Colonizing the Colonizer: The Re-Photographs of Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Art India, Spring 2004
Making It Real: Digital Truth in a Photographic Age, The Photo Review, Winter 2003
Aux Morts de la Commune: Photographs from the Paris Commune of 1871, The Photo Review, Fall 2001
The View from Abroad: Some Recent Travel Photographs, The Photo Review, Winter/Spring 2001
Barclay Hendricks, in Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism in Pennsylvania Painting, 1950-2000, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, 2001
The Face of Crime: Mug Shots from Bertillon to Pol Pot, The Photo Review, Spring 2000
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Photographers International, April 2000
Photographing Odysseus: Frank Hurley & the Shackleton Expedition, The Photo Review, Winter 2000
Abelardo Morell: Take Two, exhibition review, The Photo Review, Summer/Fall 1999
The Puritans’ Intellectual Legacy, Insight Guide to New England, 1984
Awards
2008: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, writing residency
2003: Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship for Arts Commentary
2002: Finalist, Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, The Center for Documentary Studies, for
Enduring Glory: Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station, with David H. Wells (photographer)
Education
Photography, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
AB, English, magna cum laude, Brown University, Providence, RI