April Watson
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

April Watson is studying the history of photography at the University of New Mexico with Eugenia Parry-Janis and Thomas Barrow. Her specialization is the nineteenth-century, and she has presented papers on Lady Clementina Hawarden and Julia Margaret Cameron at the University of New Mexico graduate symposia. She has also written on the film Sex, Lies, and Videotape, on the photographer Tina Barney, and most recently, on grunge as "subculture," examining the fashion industry's co-cooptation of youth culture as a marketable commodity. Currently, she is writing her master's thesis on Cameron's "Mia" album, a collection of family images the photographer gave to her sister, Maria Jackson, in 1863. Watson has studied collections both in the U.S. and abroad, and worked as an intern at the International Museum of Photography in Rochester, new York. While an undergraduate, she spent several months in England, studying graphic design and photography at Wolverhampton Polytechnic. She graduated in 1991 magna cum laude, with BFA from Alfred University, New York. Watson is currently working with the University Art Museum on an exhibition of the Mia album and accompanying symposium, for which she will be writing a catalogue essay.