Read about the incredible artists who’s work was featured in our shows!
Alanna Floreck
Alanna photographs all that feels spiritual to her, resulting in repeating elements such as duality, partnership, unalarming death, blinding light, and the full color spectrum.
Allison DeBritz
Allison DeBritz (b. 1993) is an artist and educator whose work intimately considers the gendered paradigms of domestic spaces and relationships through an interdisciplinary feminist lens. She uses photography, collage, video, and installation as part of a ritualist process, engaging with the psychological narratives woven throughout her work. DeBritz holds an MFA in Art Photography from Syracuse University and a BFA in Photography from SUNY New Paltz. She currently lives and works in Upstate New York
Amanda Bogatka
Amanda Bogatka (b. 1998, age 22) is a photographer based in Guilderland, New York, who received her BFA in Photography from SUNY New Paltz in December 2020. Her work chronicles lifelong battles with mental illness, the pursuit of self-love, and family-based generational trauma through bookmaking, storytelling, and writing. She takes a special interest in gallery work, curation, bookmaking, and art criticism. She completed two internships with the Center for Photography at Woodstock in 2020. Currently, she serves as a School Photographer and a Photography Assistant with Lifetouch.
Breanna McGeown
Bre is a photography major currently pursuing her BFA at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. During the past year, she has been finding ways to challenge herself creatively due to lack of access. Bringing her love for chemical processes into a new, digital world has allowed her to expand the way she looks at photography and the world around her. Bre aims to create work that forces us to challenge the fabrication of the universe and piece something new but familiar into existence. Pushing the boundaries of fantasy and reality in subtle ways is where she finds herself to be happiest when creating.
Caley Beard
Growing up in Massachusetts, Caley Beard (b. 1990) spent as much time in the city as she did in the wilderness, and her passion for photography is rooted in a deep, personal connection with nature. Using color, texture, and light, Caley explores dissolving edges between the human and natural worlds and documents personal struggles with her mental and physical health. Her images probe at existential questions on both the micro and macro scale and are much more felt, rather than preconceived. Her work has been exhibited at Panopticon Gallery, K6 Gallery, and MassArt’s All School Show ’21. Caley also specializes in wildlife and underwater photography and is a PADI certified Rescue Diver.
Cassidy Brauner
Cassidy Brauner Jarrahi’s research and work of focus on vernacular and less regarded, historically significant images, objects and stories – pushing aside singular definitions of reality by unpacking the staff alongside the public and the shared. She explores these themes through photography, video, performance and mixed media / text. She received her BA from Otterbein University in Artistic Photography and Visual Communications with a minor in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies in 2014 and her MA in Fine Arts from Ohio University in Photography + Media. integrated in 2018. She is currently Interim President and Visiting Professor of Integrated Photography & Media at Ohio University.
Deb Choudhuri
Deb Choudhuri (b. 1992) is an artist from India, currently based in New York. Deb deals with the “queerness” of desire, love, body and space through personal narratives. They see photography as an interface with the world, a way to confront it, a way to desire and define their own position. Deb’s practice has its roots in the need to take distance from the chaos of the surroundings, and get intimate, physically and emotionally, in places where the hunt is more lyrical, delicate, sometimes strong. Over time, the creative practice has naturally flowed from finding a sense of belonging in one place, to connecting to people by establishing closeness to one person, at a time. This way, the author tries to understand the way people express desire and love and uses photography to converse with them. They use these experiences, and conversations with strangers and friends to build the complex play of what it means to be here, to understand every struggle, and to live in a broader sociopolitical realm of existence. The lines between the subject and the photographer are fluid in the work. These dual conversations open new perspectives on the relationship between the self and the other.
Deborah Corr
Deborah Corr is currently a second year graduate student at SUNY New Paltz in New Paltz, New York working on her MFA in Photography and Related Media. Born and raised in Illinois, her recent photographic work discusses her shifting feelings and relationship to the meaning of home now that she has left her childhood home and is based in New York. Her current work is exploring digital collage through Photoshop manipulation, however, Corr has a deep rooted love for traditional analog photography and combines her film photography with her digital collages. As well, Corr practices other photographic techniques like cyanotypes.
Eric Afflerbach
Eric Afflerbach is a fine art photographer from Floral Park, NY. He is currently attending SUNY New Paltz, where he will graduate in 2022 with a BFA in Photography. Eric’s work, often self-portraiture, explores themes of identity and the subconscious through surreal imagery that recalls the tropes and feelings of horror films.
Erika Nina Suárez
Erika Nina Suárez (she/her) is a visual artist currently residing in Fort Worth, TX. In 2019 she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography from the University of North Texas. She currently holds a position as Photographer II at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Erika’s current body of work explores concepts of intimate familial relationships, recollections of unresolved childhood memories, and investigates her identity through her complex Hungarian and Nicaraguan parentage. Suárez’s work consistently retains a distinct documentary quality but is always slightly uncomfortable, inviting play into the meaning of her photographs. By using medium format color film and large-scale backlit lightbox installations, she is able to grip the viewer with her intricate compositions and forge unique connections between light and space.
Hattie Phillips
Hattie is currently an MFA candidate at Ohio University. Her work circles the connection between artifacts and memory. She uses photography, printmaking, alternative photographic processes, sculpture, installation and digital technologies like laser cutters to create artwork.
Henry DeWitt
Henry DeWitt is a fine art photographer specializing in fantastical portraiture. He designs and creates the scenes, props, and sets that complete the narrative in his images. His work has been exhibited at Burning Man, the Harry Wood Gallery, and various colleges, and he recently finished his BFA in Photography through Arizona State University. On the rare occasions when Henry is not working, he enjoys traveling, exploring new things, being out in nature, and surfing.
Jackson Hardin
Jackson Hardin is a photographer interested in evolving understandings of masculinity and self-identification, as well as in exploring theories of deep ecology to reimagine the human-environment relationship. Photography provides him a means of engaging with vulnerability, memory, and community.
Raised in the Western Slope of Colorado, Hardin holds a BA in Media Studies from Vassar College. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Photography and Related Media at SUNY New Paltz.
Jordan Keyes
Jordan Keyes (b. 1999) is a Chicago-based artist working with photography, fibers, and artist’s books. She is interested in understanding the body, personal experiences, and familial relationships to question notions of self. Jordan received her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021 and was awarded the Fred Endsley Memorial Fellowship, the Contemporary Practices Scholarship, and the Outstanding New Artist Award. She exhibited her work at Fulton Street Collective (IL), The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (IL), Oak Park Art League (IL), Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection (IL), The Center for the Arts Bonita Springs (FL), and Naples Art Association (FL).
Joshua Mokry
Joshua Mokry (b. 1995) is an American artist based in Texas exercising alternative techniques that convey and connect materials, subject matter, and feeling. He is influenced by the post-photographic moment, interested in what comes after an image is taken and how one deals with it as an object. He currently creates his own cameras and is working with solargraphy to express time in an organic form. Joshua obtained his BA at Stephen F. Austin State University in 2020 and has exhibited work in several states across the US including Texas, California, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and New Jersey.
Lali Khalid
Mehreen (Lali) Khalid came to the United States from Pakistan in 2007 as a Fulbright Scholar and attended Pratt Institute, NY where she received an MFA in Photography in 2009. After returning to Pakistan for two years, she immigrated to the United States in 2011.
Issues relating to diaspora, identity, family and home dominate Khalid’s photographic inquiry. Her images focus on cultural and private conflicts, broaching these topics obliquely through the emotive effects of natural light, and subdued narrative allusion. By photographing primarily in color, and using the startling qualities of found light, Khalid’s photographs exist between a mood of quiet longing. Lali Khalid has shown her work in numerous exhibitions throughout Europe, Pakistan, and the U.S. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at Ithaca College, NY.
László Gábor Belicza
László Gábor Belicza (1991) photographer. He has been publishing his photography works since 2016, when he received his Photography MA at Kaposvár University. His first photo essay (Egész / Whole, 2012–2016) was included in the FotoRoom selection of the ten most outstanding photography projects of the year in 2016. His series was showcased in Prague, Warsaw, Bratislava, Cluj-Napoca, and Budapest. His works can be found in the collections of the Rippl-Rónai Museum, the Műcsarnok (Kunsthalle Budapest), the and the Petőfi Literary Museum. The portraits are deep and empathetic, with a primary focus on the most intimate layers of the personality. His first solo photography album, containing 92 portraits of artists of the Hungarian music scene, was published in 2019 with the title 10 év élő zene [10 Years of Live Music]. Currently he lives and works in Budapest.
Marisa Lucchese
Marisa Lucchese is a Long Island based photographer currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the State University of New York at New Paltz. Her work is concerned with making the invisible visible. She focuses on representing internal spaces, creating discussions around ideas such as legacy, loss, familial relationships, asexuality, and mental illness.
Her work has been exhibited at Unison Arts Center (New Paltz, NY), Sojourner Truth Library (New Paltz, NY), RedLine Contemporary Art Center (Denver, Colorado), and Space Place (Nizhny Tagil, Russia). Her writing has been published on the fine art photography website Lenscratch, where she works as an intern. She has also interned at the Unison Arts Center and Loupe Digital Studio. She has been a teaching assistant and a student lab assistant in the equipment cage at SUNY New Paltz.
Mary Dias
Mary Dias is a photographer and a senior in high school from the San Francisco Bay Area. She photographs the beauty in seemingly mundane things because that way we can appreciate them as they are and think about what we pass by in a different light. Her photos become a way to navigate her thoughts and serve as a calming space for reflection.
Megan Reilly
Megan Reilly is a recent graduate from the State University of New Paltz at New York and currently resides in Athens, Ga
Monique Sutherland
Monique Sutherland is a digital photographer who grew up in central Maine and is now based in Utah on Hill Air Force Base. She is currently completing her BFA in Photography at Weber State University. Her work has often explored concepts of time, identity, self discovery, mental health, psychology, and family relationships. She uses the photographic lens to better understand the world around her in relation to psychological factors, while giving an intimate transparency to issues that are underrepresented.
Nadia Sablin
Nadia Sablin is a 2018 Guggenheim fellow. She teaches photography at SUNY New Paltz.
Nicole Leonardo
Nicole Leonardo is an emerging artist based out of New York. She recently received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the state university of New York at New Paltz. Her work often explores concepts of time, change and human connection. She is particularly interested in ideas of memory and familial relationships. Drawing inspiration from these aspects of her life, she aims to create a space of nostalgia and reflection for viewers to examine their own experiences.
Tyler Guthrie
Tyler Guthrie is a fine arts landscape photographer based in Portland, Oregon. He attended Arizona State University where he got his Bachelors of Fine Arts in Digital Photography. His photography focuses on the simple complexity and the reality of the world around him. Tyler is inspired by the haunting beauty that he sees in the Pacific Northwest and mixes different styles of photography to create a style that is unique to him.
Sage Green
Sage Green is a visual artist based in Rochester, NY. She recently graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology, where she received her MFA in Photography and Related Media. Her work addresses themes of mortality and ephemerality. Green uses mementos from lost loved ones as signs and signifiers within her work, asking the viewer to consider the ways in which we grieve.
Sara Palomo
Sara is a Latinx multi-media artist-poet, a yo that is also an I. A world of constant consumption, aol instant messenger, and the feeling of thrashing inside myself culminated in a hybrid approach of observations, descriptions, interactions, and theory as an artistic method of inquiry into constructions of self, presence, and light. Currently Sara has been looking into history through family photo albums to see what she can find, as well as drawing on the side.
Seth Jones
Seth Jones is a fine art photographer currently based in upstate New York. His work focuses on the connections between house and home, nostalgia and upbringing, and place attachment. With an eye for self-portraits, he also has an interest in storytelling through portraits of others around him and working with musicians and artists.
Shabiha Jafri
Shabiha Jafri earned a BFA at the State University of New York at New Paltz in 2020. Her current work explores her relationship with her mother after her recent passing in an attempt to confront her grief. She aims to understand her mother better outside of her role as a parent, both from the time when she was alive and now that she is no longer here.
Velianna Catalano
Velianna Catalano is a photographer from Westchester, NY. She is currently a senior at the State University of New Paltz, where she is pursuing a BFA in Photography. Velianna uses photography as a tool to explore her curiosity in the mysterious and complex. Her work often reflects themes of identity, femininity, and spirituality that visually veil her underlying truths and traumatic experiences.
Xiao Ma (Smile)
Xiao Ma (Smile) is currently studying literature and visual arts at Bennington College. Camera is Xiao’s favorite medium so far. Most of the time, she uses Fuji x pro-2. Her understanding of love is what led her to create art, her work offers a narrative and photographic exploration of love through observations of human interactions, emotions, and social and political events.