ABOUT US
In today's global community, visual images are the primary form of communication. Images have the presence to communicate what thousands of words cannot. They must be analyzed and understood because they embody historical and psychological viewpoints used to determine cultural norms and political climates. To be unable to decipher a photograph's construction, implications and power is to be fundamentally illiterate.
The Photography Institute brings together today's noted and emerging artists, scholars and critics to provide a forum where they can explore contemporary issues in visual imagery and photographic image making.
Only by including diverse voices in these examinations can we address fully the profound issues of our time. If artists are to be visionaries, the gadflies of social and political injustice in our complex world, then we must also learn to engage our communities and take responsibility for that engagement.
Cheryl Younger
Director and Founder
To reach us, please write or send email to:
TPI
c/o Cheryl Younger, Director
35 Mercer Street, 3A
New York, NY 10013
212 966 4035 phone
212 219 9564 fax
cyounger@gmsc-soho.com email
Board of Directors
President, Ronit Berkman
Vice President, Robert Rindler, Dean of the School of Art, Cooper Union
Secretary, Margaret Moulton, photographer
Treasurer, Rachel Golan, restaurateur
Joanna Bigfeather, artist, independent curator
Gay Block, photographer
Linda Kastan, president, Kastan Photography
Gabriela Moraru, video producer
Deborah Willis, PhD, photographer, curator, author, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Janet Wolff, PhD, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of the Arts, Columbia University
Honorary Board of Directors
Joanna Bigfeather, independent curator
Gay Block, photographer
William Christenberry, photographer
Linda Connor, photographer
Barbara Crane, photographer
Bruce Davidson, photographer
Robert Frank, photographer
Andy Grundberg, photography critic
Robert Heinecken, photographer
Mark Klett, photographer
Lucy Lippard, author, art critic
Nathan Lyons, founder, Visual Studies Workshop
Elaine Mayes, photographer
Susan Meiselas, photographer
Duane Michals, photographer
Christopher Phillips, curator, International Center for Photography
Coreen Simpson, photographer
Jerry Uelsmann, photographer
Deborah Willis, PhD, photographer, author, curator