We [1] want to thank all of the people cited here for giving their energy and applying their fine minds to the various aspects of the Words Without Pictures project. Words Without Pictures is constantly growing and changing; find out how you can join the list of contributors [2].

KEN ABBOTT is an independent photographer and filmmaker living in Asheville, NC. He teaches introductory and digital photography in the Art Department at Western Carolina University. Since receiving his MFA in Photography from Yale University School of Art in 1987, he has worked in editorial and commercial photography, while pursuing independent projects in fine art. He has exhibited his work at Midtown Y in New York City and Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, OR, as well as other locations, and is a 2006 North Carolina Council on the Arts Fellowship recipient. He is currently working on a book and film project entitled Useful Work: The Legacy of Hickory Nut Gap Farm.

ANDY ADAMS is the editor of Flak Photo, a daily photography blogzine that has featured distinctive photography from an international community of contributors since July 2006. The blog aims to promote interesting approaches to seeing the world, and celebrates the art of exhibiting quality photography on the web. *Available online at www.flakphoto.com*

DARSIE ALEXANDER is senior curator of contemporary art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Recent exhibitions include SlideShow (2005), Luisa Lambri (2007), and the forthcoming retrospective of Viennese sculptor Franz West (2008). Prior to Baltimore, Alexander was assistant curator in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, where she organized exhibitions including Robert Cumming: The Clutter of Happenstance (1998) and Sites and Situations (2000). Alexander is currently a senior critic for the MFA program at the University of Pennsylvania.

FIA BACKSTRÖM is a New York based artist, born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her work has recently been shown at Serpentine Gallery, London, ICA, Philadelphia, United Nations Plaza, Berlin, Sculpture Center, The Kitchen, White Columns, Whitney ISP, Andrew Kreps gallery and Elizabeth Dee gallery, all New York, Marabouparken, Stockholm. She has had texts published in Pacemaker, North Drive Press, Artforum and Art On Paper. She has served as visiting lecturer at New York University, Columbia University and Rhode Island School of Design and currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts Photography Department.

GEORGE BAKER is Associate Professor of Art History at UCLA, where he has taught modern and contemporary art and theory since 2003. A New York and Paris-based critic for Artforum magazine throughout the 1990s, he also works as an editor of the journal October and its publishing imprint October Books. He regularly offers courses on all aspects of modernism and the historical avant-garde, on the history of photography in the 19th- and 20th-centuries, and on specialized topics in post-war and contemporary art history. Baker received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, and is a graduate of the art history program at Yale University and the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has received, amongst others, an Andrew Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, CASVA and Whiting Foundation fellowships, and a postdoctoral fellowship from the Getty Research Institute. Professor Baker is the author, most recently, of The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris (MIT Press, 2007), and several other books including James Coleman: Drei Filmarbeiten (Sprengel Museum, 2002), and Gerard Byrne: Books, Magazines, and Newspapers (Lukas & Sternberg, 2003). He has published essays on a variety of postmodern and contemporary artists including Robert Smithson, Robert Whitman, Anthony McCall, Louise Lawler, Andrea Fraser, Christian Philipp Müller, Tom Burr, Rachel Harrison, and Knut Åsdam. In 2007 and 2008, his essay on the artist Paul Chan was published in a catalog that accompanied Chan’s major exhibition of the project The 7 Lights at the Serpentine Gallery in London and the New Museum in New York. Baker subsequently published an interview with Chan for the recent anti-war issue of October. Currently, he is working on disparate projects including a revisionist study of Picasso’s modernism and a shorter book on the work of three women artists--Zoe Leonard, Tacita Dean, and Sharon Lockhart--to be entitled Lateness and Longing. The latter is part of a larger project that Baker has termed “photography’s expanded field,” detailing the fate of photography and film works in contemporary cultural production.

TIM BARBER grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts, spent a few years in the mountains of northern Vermont, went to school in Vancouver, and now lives in New York City. A photographer, curator, publisher, and designer, he runs the photo blog/online gallery www.tinyvices.com, where visitors are encouraged to submit their photography and artwork. He is currently touring an exhibition based on the website, showcasing the work of over 100 artists to audiences around the world.

CHRISTOPHER BEDFORD is an art historian and critic based in Los Angeles. He is currently an Assistant Curator in the Department of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

WALEAD BESHTY (b. 1976, London, UK) is an artist and writer living and working in Los Angeles.  Upcoming exhibitions include: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (solo 2009); The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (solo 2009); LAXART, Los Angeles, CA (solo 2009); The Tate Triennial, TATE Britain, London, Englnd (2009). Past exhibitions include: Word Event (After George Brecht), Kunsthalle Basel (2008); The 2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2008); Meanwhile in Baghdad, The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2008); Los Angeles Confidential, Centre D’Art Contemporain Parc San Leger (2008); Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2008); Between Two Deaths, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (2007); Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo 2006); Wallspace, New York, NY (solo 2009, 2006, 2004); China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA (solo 2008, 2005); The 2006 and 2008 California Biennials, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, (2006/2008); The New City, The Whitney Museum of American Art, (2005/6); PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (solo 2004); Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL (2004). Selected portfolios and press include Artforum, Art Review, The New York Times, Frieze, Modern Painters, Art in America, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, ARTnews, Art on Paper, Blindspot, Aperture. His work is in the public collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; The Miami Museum of Art, Miami, FL; The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; FRAC Nord – Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France and The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA. He is a regular contributor to Texte zur Kunst, and Afterall Journal, and has written for several exhibition catalogs and monographs. Beshty was recently appointed core faculty in the Graduate Fine Art Program of Art Center College of Art and Design. A monograph of his work will be published in 2009 with JRP Ringier. Beshty holds a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Yale University School of Art.

GIL BLANK is a photographer and writer. Most recently, his work has been exhibited at PS1 Contemporary Art Center and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; LaMontagne Gallery, Boston; and CB Gallery, Tokyo. He is a contributing editor of photographic criticism to Art On Paper magazine, and was the founding editor of Influence magazine. His writing has also been published as part of the monographs White Planet, Black Heart, by Torbjørn Rødland, and Freischwimmer, by Wolfgang Tillmans.

MARK BOLLAND is an artist and writer, and a lecturer in photography at University College for the Creative Arts in the UK. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2004, he has written regularly for Source and has contributed to Portfolio, Photoworks and Afterimage. He exhibited new photographs in February 2007 at Hoopers Gallery, London, and is currently researching the prehistory of photography.

JOHANNA BURTON is an art historian and critic living in New York City. She is Associate Director and Senior Faculty Member at the Whitney Independent Study Program.

MELISSA CATANESE is a graduate of the MFA program at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her photographs can be viewed as part of the Midwest Photographer's Project at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. She was recently published in Paper Placemats (ATL), a public art project curated by Jason Fulford of J&L Books. She is also featured as a member of the online collective, Ping Pong.

PHIL CHANG received his MFA from CalArts and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. His work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Austin, San Salvador, and San Jose, Costa Rica. He is currently a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at Otis College of Art and Design. Chang lives and works in Los Angeles.

SARAH CHARLESWORTH is a visual artist and photographer who has exhibited widely in the US and abroad. With over 40 individual exhibitions, a traveling museum retrospective (organized by SITE, Santa Fe) and presence in many major museum shows and collections, Charlesworth is one of the seminal figures whose work has been instrumental in bridging the gap between fine art and a critical practice of photography. Charlesworth's work has explored issues concerning the language of photography within contemporary culture. In addition to her photographic work, Charlesworth has taught photography for several years in the graduate programs and at both RISD and the School of Visual Arts in N.Y. Charlesworth's work appears in numerous museum collections such as the Metropolitan Museum, NY, the Whitney Museum, NY, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MOCA, Los Angeles and the Walker in Minneapolis amongst many others. She is the recipient of two National Endowment grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Charlesworth lives and works in New York City.

JOSHUA CHUANG is a photographer and the Marcia Brady Tucker Assistant Curator of Photographs at the Yale University Art Gallery. Most recently, he has served as editor of the Art Gallery's 2006 Bulletin on the subject of photography at Yale, and the monograph Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools by Judith Joy Ross. Currently, he is at work on a book of his own photographs, as well as a retrospective publication and exhibition of the work of Robert Adams.

JACOB CIOCCI is a founding member of the art collective Paper Rad. His work is concerned with the relationship between popular culture, technology and notions of transcendence. In his paintings, comics, performances, net art and videos, contemporary and recently forgotten cultural symbols confront one another inside a frenzied cartoon universe that is simultaneously celebratory and critical.

KAREL CÍSAR is a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He curated and co-curated 5th Biennial of the Young Artists (2005), Prague Biennale 2 (2005), as well as exhibitions with Hans-Peter Feldmann, Inventory and Robin Rhode. He is the editor of What is Photography? (2004).

JÖRG COLBERG is a writer and photographer, most well known for his photography blog "Conscientious" (http://www.jmcolberg.com/weblog), one of the most widely read and popular such blogs. His work has been published in numerous magazines and websites both nationally and internationally.

MILES COOLIDGE is an artist, and a professor of photography at University of California, Irvine. His work has appeared in solo exhibitions at Casey Kaplan, New York, ACME, Los Angeles and Galerie Gisela Capitain, among others. Recent group shows in which his work was displayed include Now Is the Winter, Projekt Fabrika, Moscow, Russia, Been Up So Long it Looks Like Down to Me, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Art in America Now, Shanghai Museum of Art, China, First the Artist Defines Meaning, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria and Modern Photographs from the Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

CHARLOTTE COTTON is the Curator and Department Head of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Previously, she was the Curator of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum (1992-2004), and Head of Programming at The Photographers' Gallery in London (2004-5). She was a visiting professor at Yale University (2005) and visiting critic at SVA, Bard, CCA and Cranbrook (2005-7). She is the author and editor of several books, including Imperfect Beauty (2000), Then Things Went Quiet (2003), Guy Bourdin (2003) and The Photograph as Contemporary Art (2004).

PRADEEP DALAL is a New York-based artist whose work was recently exhibited at the New York Public Library, Orchard, and ps122 Gallery, and at TART in San Francisco. He was included in a contemporary photography show at the Vadhera Gallery in New Delhi and London, and will show in B Sides at the Aljira Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, New Jersey. He received the Tierney grant for emerging artists and is on the faculty at the International Center of Photography in New York. He works with the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program.

MOYRA DAVEY is an artist. In 2008 the Fogg Art Museum presented “Long life Cool White”, a twenty year survey of her photographs. She is the editor of “Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood” and author of “The Problem of Reading”. She is currently participating in the International Residencies program at the Cité des Arts in Paris.

LIZ DESCHENES has a BFA, in Photography, from Rhode Island School of Design. The medium of Photography has been central to all of her professional activities- exhibiting, teaching and curating, in a pursuit to expand how Photography is perceived and understood. She currently teaches Photography at The Graduate Department of Photography and Related Media, School Of Visual Arts, NYC. She is a recipient of an Anonymous Was A Woman award, and The Aaron Siskind Foundation grant. Curating an exhibition entitled, Photography About Photography, she revealed other current practitioners of photography, with similar self-reflexive tendencies, at Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC. Her work has recently been published in “Rethinking Photography 1+11”, and "Concrete Photography". Her work is also included in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, NYC, and The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC.

TIMOTHY DRUCKREY is a curator, writer, and editor living in New York City. He lectures internationally about the social impact of electronic media, the transformation of representation, and communication in interactive and networked environments. He co-organized the international symposium Ideologies of Technology at the Dia Center of the Arts (1994) and co-curated the exhibition Iterations: The New Image at the International Center of Photography (1993). As a theorist of contemporary media, he has curated exhibitions and has written and edited books including Iterations: The New Image (1994), Electronic Culture (1996) and Ars Electronica (2001).

SHANNON EBNER was born in New Jersey in 1971 and currently lives in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 2000 and her BA from Bard College, New York, in 1993. She is currently on the faculty at the USC Roski School of Fine Arts and has served as a visiting lecturer at University of California, Los Angeles and Irvine. Ebner's work has been included in group shows at The Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, the Tate Modern, London, The Serpentine Gallery, London, and PS1/Moma and White Columns in New York. Ebner works with Wallspace in New York where she had her second solo show "the Sun & the Sign" last spring. Reviews and articles about Ebner's work have appeared in Artforum, Aperture, Art Review, Frieze, Modern Painters, and the New York Times. Ebner is currently at work on a book project that is commissioned by LACMA.

JASON EVANS is a multi-disciplinary photographer with a diverse range of outputs, typified by an experimental approach to image making. Known for his work in different Media areas, he has enjoyed a career which engages with the Fashion, Music and Editorial industries. He currently teaches at the UCCA at Farnham. Web presence includes : www.thedailynice.com / www.thenewscent.com / www.jasonevans.info

MARY FAGOT is an art director and video maker living in Los Angeles, CA. She runs an art direction and design shop called Outfit, where she recently finished album art for the Swedish pop singer Robyn, and is the creative director of Preen, a new magazine of fashion, arts, and culture. Together with director James Frost, she also runs Blip Boutique, a production company specializing in very short films for music and advertising. Recent projects include a number of videos for rock band OK Go, a short for Preen Magazine, and a series of experimental films. Previous work includes a decade as an art/creative director for various record labels, including Capitol and Virgin Records, as well as art consultancy with Self-Taught Artist Resources, representing outsider artists in the United States.

TIFFANY FAIREY is the co-Founder and Director of PhotoVoice, an award-winning charity whose projects empower some of the most disadvantaged groups in the world with photography, so that they may transform their lives.

HARRELL FLETCHER has worked collaboratively and individually on a variety of socially engaged, interdisciplinary projects for over fifteen years. His work has been shown at SF MoMA, the de Young Museum, The Berkeley Art Museum, and Yerba Buena Center For The Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area, The Drawing Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Sculpture Center, The Wrong Gallery, and Smackmellon in NYC, DiverseWorks and Aurora Picture show in Houston, TX, PICA in Portland, OR, CoCA and The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA, Signal in Malmo, Sweden, Domain de Kerguehennec in France, and The Royal College of Art in London. Fletcher exhibits in San Francisco and Los Angeles with Jack Hanley Gallery, in NYC with Christine Burgin Gallery, in London with Laura Bartlett Gallery, and Paris with Gallery In Situ. He was a participant in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Fletcher has work in the collections of MoMA, The Whitney Museum, The New Museum, SFMoMA, The Berkeley Art Museum, The De Young Museum, and The FRAC Brittany, France. In 2002 Fletcher started Learning To Love You More, an ongoing participatory website with Miranda July. A book version LTLYM was published in 2007 by Prestel. Fletcher is the 2005 recipient of the Alpert Award in Visual Arts. His exhibition The American War originated in 2005 at ArtPace in San Antonio, TX, and traveled to Solvent Space in Richmond, VA, White Columns in NYC, The Center For Advanced Visual Studies MIT in Boston, MA, PICA in Portland, OR, and LAXART in Los Angeles among other locations. Fletcher is a Professor of Art and Social Practice at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.

STEPHANIE FORD is a Los Angeles-based editor and fiction writer. She received her BA in Studio Art from Grinnell College and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan.

JASON FULFORD is a photographer, graphic designer, and co-founder of J&L Books. He has lectured at the Corcoran College of Art, Cranbrook Academy of Art, LACMA, Mass Art, P.S.1, SVA, Wesleyan University and Yale University. He is also a contributing editor to Blind Spot. Fulford’s photographs have been featured in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Time, and on book jackets for Don Delillo, John Updike, Bertrand Russell, Terry Eagleton, Ernest Hemingway and Richard Ford. Monographs include Sunbird (2000), Crushed (2003), and Raising Frogs for $$$ (2006). He lives in Scranton, PA.
jasonfulford, JandLbooks

MARK GODFREY is a curator at Tate Modern. He is the author of 'Abstraction and the Holocaust' (Yale University Press) and of essays on artists such as Anri Sala, Ceal Floyer, Christopher Williams, Pierre Huyghe, Tacita Dean, Zoe Leonard, and Sharon Lockhart. He curated the exhibition 'Matthew Buckingham: Play the Story' at Camden Arts Centre in 2007, and is currently working on shows of Roni Horn and Francis Alys for Tate Modern.

SHIGEO GOTO was born in Osaka, Japan. In addition to serving as an editor, creative director, and curator for GTND, a Tokyo arts organization, Goto is a professor and departmental dean at Kyoto University of Art and Design. His editorial works include Tokyo Love (1994) by Nan Goldin and Araki Nobuyoshi, My Grandmothers (2000) by Miwa Yanagi, and Nanoo (2006) by Ai Yamataka. He has curated projects by artists including Yurie Nagashima and Tomoko Sawada and published his own books on photography and contemporary art. He is currently organizing a conference series on photography in Kyoto and curating an exhibition of work by young artists in Osaka.

CLARE GRAFIK is a curator at the Photographers' Gallery in London and the photography editor of Contemporary Magazine. She is a visiting tutor at London College of Communications, and has worked on projects and publications with photographers including Lise Sarfati, Cuny Janssen, Marketa Othova and Zineb Sedira. Forthcoming exhibitions include a photographic retrospective of Keith Arnatt entitled I'm a Real Photographer and the first UK solo exhibition of Magnum photographer Antoine d'Agata.

PAUL GRAHAM is a photographer born in the UK and currently based in New York. His work has been exhibited internationally and is included in the collections of numerous institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Gallery, London, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Victoria & Albert Museum, London and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 1996 his work was the subject of a Phaidon monograph. Other publications include A1—The Great North Road, Beyond Caring, Troubled Land, New Europe, American Night, and A Shimmer of Possibility.

CATHERINE GRANT is a Teaching Fellow at the Slade School of Art and a Visiting Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her research interests include the representation of adolescence and femininity in photography, the theorisation of spectatorship and identification in relation to the photographic portrait, and the intersection between queer theory and feminism. She completed her PhD, entitled Different Girls: performances of adolescence in contemporary photographic portraits at the Courtauld in 2006, and was the Courtauld Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellow in 2007. She has recently published an article on Anna Gaskell in Feminism Reframed, 2007, and has written on contemporary art for magazines and books including Flash Art and Vitamin Ph.

SUNIL GUPTA is a photographer, artist, curator, writer, and cultural activist who has made significant contributions to contemporary art practice and discourse around the globe. In 1988, he co-founded Autograph: the Association of Black Photographers, a publicly funded coalition of photographers of Asian and African descent. In 1992, he started OVA: the Organization for Visual Arts. Currently based in India, he is curating exhibitons of contemporary Indian photography for the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and the Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi. His own work is on view at Newark Museum of Art, and the Kunstmuseum Bern.

KARL HAENDEL received a BA from Brown University in 1998 and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003. He also studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine. Selected group exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; and the Serpentine Gallery, London. He was the subject of a one person exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 2006. Karl Haendel is represented by Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York.

KAREN HELLMAN is a doctoral candidate in the History of Photography at the Graduate Center, CUNY, with a focus on 19th century British photography. She is currently working on a PhD Dissertation on the London daguerreotype studio of the Frenchman Antoine Claudet. Most recently she has worked in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum and organized the recent exhibition André Kertész: Seven Decades. She is also research curator for a forthcoming exhibition (2011) at the Yale Center for British Art on the daguerreotype studios of Antoine Claudet and Richard Beard.

LESLIE HEWITT uses photography, sculpture and film to challenge the representation and organization of social meaning. Hewitt uses the camera as a tool to reposition ones view, subtly disrupting the window effect and expectations of a photographic document. She engages architectural space and the fragmentation of time through photographic and sculptural means. In exploring the "revolution embedded" in photography and film, her work addresses how cultural material is documented, classified and preserved.

DARIUS HIMES was the founding editor of photo-eye Booklist, a quarterly magazine devoted to photography books, from 2002-2007. He is a founding member of Radius Books, a non-profit, Santa Fe-based organization created in 2007 that publishes books on the visual arts, where he works as an editor. He is also a lecturer, consultant, educator and writer, having contributed to Blind Spot, Bookforum, BOMB, PDN, and American Photo. Himes is an occasional adjunct professor of photographic arts at the College of Santa Fe. He earned his BFA in Photography from Arizona State University and a Master of Arts in Liberal Arts from St. John's College and actively pursues his own photographic image-making.

SOPHIE HOWARTH is the head of Education and Research at inIVA, where she manages education, research, publications, and events programs. She was formerly the curator of public programs at Tate Modern. She has extensive experience in public dialogue and learning initiatives, and has been responsible for a number of pioneering cultural education projects. Her publications include Singular Images: Essays on Remarkable Photographs (2005), Dryden Goodwin (2004), Decoy: Jane Prophet (2001), and many articles on contemporary art and photography. Curatorial work includes Onto The Streets, a British Council touring exhibition (2006-7) and USSR in Construction (2006-7). She has taught extensively, and convened major conferences on aspects of art and photography.

WILLIAM E. JONES grew up in Ohio and now lives and works in Los Angeles. He has made two feature length experimental films, Massillon and Finished, several short videos, and the feature length documentary Is It Really So Strange?. His work has been shown at the Cinémathèque française and Musée du Louvre, Paris; International Film Festival Rotterdam; Oberhausen Short Film Festival; Sundance Film Festival; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His films and videos were also the subject of a retrospective at Tate Modern, London, in 2005. He has been included in Biennial Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1993 and 2008. He has published two books, Is It Really So Strange? (2006) and Tearoom (2008). His work is represented by David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles. He works in the adult video industry under the name Hudson Wilcox and teaches film history at Art Center College of Design under his own name. His website is http://www.williamejones.com/.

FARRAH KARAPETIAN is an artist currently based in Los Angeles. She received her BA from Yale University, where she concentrated in photography, and will receive her MFA from UCLA in 2008. She will construct a photograph in Los Angeles at Sandroni Rey in February of 2008.

SIRI KAUR received her MFA from CalArts, her MA in Italian Studies
from Smith College, and her BA in Comparative Literature from Smith
College. Her photographs have been exhibited in numerous group shows,
including 401 Projects in New York, Hayworth Gallery in Los Angeles,
the Torrance Museum of Art, and the UCLA Wight Biennial. Kaur's work
is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery in D.C. and
the University of Maine. She lives and works in Los Angeles, and is
currently a visiting lecturer at Otis College of Art and Design.

SOO KIM is an artist based in Los Angeles. Her work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions including shows at Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles; Orange County Museum of Art; Vassar College, New York; Art Sonje, Seoul, Korea; DCKT, New York, Gwangju Biennale. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, and other publications. She received her MFA from the Schools of Art, Critical Writing, and Film and Video at California Institute of the Arts, and is currently Professor and Program Director of Photography at Otis College of Art and Design.

ALEX KLEIN is an artist based in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from UCLA, her MA in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London and her BA in Art History from Columbia University, New York. In Spring 2007 she co-organized with James Welling the conference Around Photography at the Hammer Museum. Her photographs and writing have appeared in numerous exhibitions and publications. She has served as a visiting lecturer at Otis College of Art and Design and UCLA. She is currently the Ralph M. Parsons Curatorial Fellow in the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and an adjunct faculty member at the USC Roski School of Fine Arts.

SHANE LAVALETTE was born in 1987 in Burlington, VT. He is currently living in Cambridge, MA, studying for a degree from Tufts University and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. When he is not making photographs, he is writing about photographs. His *Journal*, which has one of the highest readerships of photography-related blogs, focuses primarily on fine art photography and issues concerning contemporary photographic practice. By featuring individual photographers, books, exhibitions and exclusive interviews with artists, the blog is both an archive of his own personal interests as well as a platform for critical discourse. Shane is also the founder and co-editor of *Lay Flat*, a new publication of contemporary photography and writing. Shane's own work can be found at shanelavalette.com.

JOHN LEHR was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1975 and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. He received his MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 2005 and his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1998. Lehr's work has been included in exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Yancey Richardson Gallery. He recently had his first solo show “White Noise” at MARCH in New York. He is currently a Lecturer in Photography at the Yale School of Art.

SZE TSUNG LEONG is an artist born in Mexico City, and currently lives and works in New York. His work has been exhibited internationally, and is held in the permanent collections of institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Yale University Art Gallery; and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. His book History Images, published by Steidl, was released in 2006.

MIRANDA LICHTENSTEIN received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. She has exhibited in numerous museums and galleries in the U.S. and abroad, including the UCLA Hammer Museum; the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, NY; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, S.F; the Renaissance Society, Chicago; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY; the Hirsshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, D.C; Stadthaus Ulm, Germany; Elizabeth Dee Gallery, NY; Gallery Min Min, Tokyo; and Mary Goldman Gallery, LA. Lichtenstein lives and works in New York.

LESLEY A. MARTIN is executive editor of the book-publishing program at the Aperture Foundation, where she has worked on-and-off since interning at Aperture in 1995. In between stints at Aperture, she pursued graduate course work at Columbia College, Chicago / the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and also served as senior editor and production director of Umbrage Editions. Her writing on photography has been published in, for instance, Aperture, American Photo, and DoubleTake. She has edited over fifty books of photography, including Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer (2005); An-My Lê: Small Wars (2005); My Life in Politics: Tim Davis (2006); and Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names by Alex Webb (2007). Martin is also the coauthor of two volumes on design, Graphicscape: Tokyo (2004) and Graphicscape: New York (2004), and the contributing editor to Full Vinyl: The Subversive Art of Designer Toys (2007).

LILIANA MARTINEZ is the cofounder of ONG (Organización Nelson Garrido, Venezuela) where she teaches Photography and History of Photography. Her main field of research is Photography in Latin America, and her findings are discussed on her photoblog, Blog Fotografia en Latinoamerica. She currently writes for art and photography magazines in Venezuela, and organizes exhibitions of Latin American photography at ONG.

DEEPAK JOHN MATTHEW has been the coordinator of the photography department at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, since 2002. He has a PhD in design education, a master's degree in fine art, and two bachelor's degrees in physics and painting. His experience in the worlds of photography, painting, and graphics spans over 15 years, and he has received awards and exhibited his work in many national and international exhibitions. He has also been a visiting instructor at institutions and universities, teaching courses in design, drawing, color and composition, and photography. His works are held in public and private collections in India and abroad.

KEVIN MOORE is a private curator living in New York City. He earned a PhD in art history in 2002 from Princeton University and has worked in the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Fogg Art Museum, and the Princeton Art Museum, and has taught at Boston University. Kevin is the author of Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of an Artist (2004) and coauthor of New York Rises: Photographs by Eugene de Salignac (2007), as well as a contributing author to the Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2006) and various other publications.

CARTER MULL was born in Atlanta in 1977, and he currently lives and works in Los Angeles. His work has been exhibited internationally and reviewed in Artforum, Art Review and The New Yorker, among other publications. Work from his first solo exhibition is now held in the permanent collection of The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Currently Mull will begin teaching at USC in the winter and is currently working on new photographs and three dimensional work for group exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York and London.

SARA NORDSTRÖM is a freelance curator and photographer from Sweden (currently based in Paris). Previously, she worked as a project coordinator for the 2006 Xposeptember Stockholm Photo Festival. She recently finished her studies at the MA course “International Curating Management Education” at Stockholm University. Within the framework of the course, she did an internship at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, working with the photography curator Anna Tellgren on the exhibition Arbus Model Strömholm (2005). She also has a BA (HONS)-degree in Photographic Arts from the University of Westminster, London.

MICHIKO OHKI is an art critic, born in Japan. After earning a masters degree in Art History at Kyoto University in 2005, she took on work as an editor, critic, and researcher at the Research Center for Editorial Studies at Kyoto University of Art and Design. She is currently writing a thesis on Jeff Wall, Olafur Eliasson and Luc Tuymans, trying to capture contemporary art as a facet of perceptual dynamism in a modern capitalistic world. She is the co-translator of the Japanese edition of Jonathan Crary's Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture (2001).

KAYCEE OLSEN is an independent curator and writer living in Los Angeles. Additionally she has a commercial gallery background with a Directorship at Paul Kopeikin Gallery. She graduated in 2006 from the University of Southern California, where she studied Art History under Thomas Crow. She will begin her M.A. in Art History at U.C. Riverside in Fall 2008 where she has been awarded the California Museum of Photography Fellowship. Her research focuses on photography and new media.

MARISA OLSON is an artist, critic, and curator. Her work has recently been presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Pompidou-Paris, New Museum of Contemporary Art, 52nd International Biennale di Venezia, National Museum of Contemporary Art (Athens, Greece), Edith Russ-Haus fur Medienkunst, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst/ Montevideo, the British Film Institute, and elsewhere. She is also a founding member of the Nasty Nets "internet surfing club" whose new DVD recently premiered at the New York Underground Film Festival and will be the subject of an exhibition at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Her work has been written about in ArtForum, the New York Times, Art in America, Folha de Sao Paolo, Liberation-Paris, and the Village Voice. Her own critiques of contemporary art and digital visual culture have extended to writing for Flash Art, Art Review, Afterimage, Planet, and Art on Paper and to curating exhibitions and programs at the Guggenheim, SFMOMA, White Columns, Artists Space, the Performa Biennial, SF Camerawork, and Rhizome, where she is currently Curator at Large.

NICLAS ÖSTLIND is newly appointed as senior curator at Åmells konsthandel in Stockholm and London. He has been a curator at Liljevalchs Konsthall in Stockholm between 2001-2007. Amongst the exhibitions he has curated and co-curated are Art Feminism: Strategies and Consequences in Sweden from the 1970s to the Present (2005); Helen Chadwick: Retrospective (2005); the Tuija Lindström retrospective Look at Us (2004); The Optimists with German artist Jårg Geismar (2003); and History Now: The Present of the Past in Contemporary Photography (2002). He gives frequent lectures at universities and art academies, and has been publishing writing on contemporary art and photography for periodicals, books, and catalogues since 1992.

ARTHUR OU received an MFA from Yale University in 2000. He is currently on faculty at Otis College of Art and Design and USC in Los Angeles. In 2008 he will serve as assistant professor in the graduate photography program at Parsons School of Design in New York. Ou's work was included in the 2006 Taipei Biennial at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. His work has also appeared in group exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, London, Vancouver, Dresden and Beijing. He is represented by Hudson Franklin Gallery in New York. Arthur Ou lives and works in Los Angeles.

ED PANAR was born and raised in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. A book of photographs from his series Golden Palms was recently published by J&L Books and in 2007 he received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship. Ed currently lives and works in Pittsburgh.

EDITH MARIE PASQUIER is an artist based in London. She graduated with an MA in Fine Art (Photography) at the Royal College of Art in 2008. Her interdisciplinary practice has included awards and commissions by The Serpentine Gallery, Film London, Artsadmin, Soho Theatre and Nuffield Theatre in the UK. Her practice includes, moving image, photography, sound/music and text work. She has also contributed as a writer and critic to art catalogues and magazines in America and in the UK to include amongst others Unknown Public, Women’s Art Library, The Museum of Modern African Art (New York) and an Magazine.

ANTHONY PEARSON, a Los Angeles artist that works in photography and sculpture, received his MFA from UCLA in 1999. He will have a solo exhibition at Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis, Minnesota in September 2008 and a solo exhibition at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York in 2009. A monograph of his solarizations will be published in 2008 by Midway Contemporary Art.

CAROLYN PETER is Director and Curator of the Laband Art Gallery at Loyola Marymount University. She has held curatorial positions at the Hammer Museum at UCLA, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, LACMA, and the Johnson Museum at Cornell University. She has curated numerous exhibitions including: A Fine Experiment: A Tribute to Robert Heinecken, and A Letter from Japan: The Photographs of John Swope, a series of exhibitions on Honoré Daumier, Heavenly Visions: Shaker Gift Drawings and Gift Songs, and Made in California: Art, Image and Identity. Carolyn is the author of A Letter from Japan (2006) and co-author of The Eunice and Hal David Collection of 19th- and 20th-Century Works on Paper (2002). She has also contributed essays to several books including “California Welcomes the World: The International Expositions 1893-1939 and the Selling of a State,” Reading California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000 (2000). She taught teaches at UCLA Extension and juried the Pacific Prints exhibition in 2002 at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto, California.

LESTER PLEASANT was born in Pennsylvania and studied photography in the Midwest. His work has been exhibited widely to his friends and family, in his studio, and on his website. No longer a recent graduate, he is currently navigating the wilderness of the 'real world' and is on a quest to develop his work and bring it to an even larger audience. He is currently based in Los Angeles.

PHILLIP PRODGER is the Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Previously Phillip was the Lisette Model and Joseph G. Blum Fellow in History of Photography at the National Gallery of Canada and the assistant curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Saint Louis Art Museum. His book projects include E. O. Hoppé's Amerika (2007), Impressionist Camera: Pictorial Photography in Europe (2006), and Time Stands Still: Muybridge and the Instantaneous Photography Movement (2003). His writings on photography and art have been published in six languages. He is currently completing a book on Charles Darwin and photography for Oxford University Press, and organizing a major retrospective of photographs by Jerry Uelsmann.

MICHAEL QUEENLAND received an MFA from UCLA in 2002. In 2005 his work was featured in Michael Queenland: Photographs, Sculptures and Shaker Classics at the ICA at MECA in Maine and MASSart in Boston. In December 2006 he was named a United States Artists Fellow. From 2004-2005 Queenland was a resident artist at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Recent exhibitions include Civil Restitutions at Thomas Dane Gallery in London, Trace at the Whitney Museum at Altria in New York, and Frequency at the Studio Museum in Harlem. In 2008 Queenland will participate in the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

DAVID REINFURT is an independent graphic designer and writer based in New York City. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1993 and received an MFA from Yale University in 1999. In 2000, he formed O-R-G inc., a flexible graphic design practice composed of a constantly shifting network of collaborators. More recently, he co-founded Dexter Sinister, a workshop in a basement on the lower east side of New York City. David currently teaches at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and Rhode Island School of Design.

NOEL RODO-VANKEULEN is a writer, photographer, and curator born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1982. Currently he is living in Brampton, Ontario and pursuing a degree in Visual Arts and Art History from York University in Toronto. While working on various photographic projects ( www.nrodo-vankeulen.com) that range from the occult, personal histories, and family vacations across the Trans-Canada Highway, Noel has authored the popular photography blog We Can’t Paint. Recently this project has expanded into The We Can’t Paint Network, an online space that includes a magazine (ISSN: 1916-8462) and a gallery that will both launch concurrently in September, 2008.

DAYANITA SINGH is a photographer based in New Delhi. Steidl has just published her newest work, Go Away Closer. Her earlier books are Myself Mona Ahmed (2001), Privacy (2003), Chairs (2005). Her photographs have been widely exhibited. She is represented by Frith Street Gallery, London.

JOHAN SJÖSTRÖ has been a curator at BildMuseet in Umea, Sweden since 1998. He lectures and reviews portfolios at many international photography events, including ArtPhoto Image Festival (Romania); Bratislava Month of Photography (Slovakia); FotoBild (Germany); FotoFest (USA and China); Les Rencontres d'Arles (France); Rhubarb-Rhubarb (UK); and Skabmagovat (Finland). He has contributed to magazines such as ArtPhoto, Chinese Photography, Fotomagazin, and Paletten, and is on the advisory board of Pavillion magazine. He is the editor of several publications, including Peoples of Lara Baladi: Kai'ro (2004), and The Politics of Place (2002). He is, together with Jan-Erik Lundström, the artistic director of the Third Bucharest Biennale which will open in May 2008.

JASON SMITH (Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, 2006) is Faculty in the Graduate Studies in Art MFA program at Art Center College of Design. His work has been published in Artforum, Critical Inquiry, Rethinking Marxism, Il Manifesto and Modern Painters. He is currently completing a manuscript on Jacques Derrida and the Marxist tradition called Jacques Derrida, "Crypto-Communist": Dialectics, Materiality and the Contemporary Wars of Religion. He also co-translated and introduced Jean-Luc Nancy's Hegel: The Restlessness of the Negative (Minnesota, 2002) and is an editor of the journal Soft Targets.

MARK STAFFORD is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York. He is an adjunct faculty member of School of Visual Arts and Parsons School of Design, a member of the psychoanalytic associations Apres-Coup and Convergenci, and the co-editor (with Paola Mieli and Jacques Houis) of Being Human: The Technological Extension of the Body (1999). He has also written many articles on psychoanalysis, art and technology.

A.L. STEINER uses constructions of photography, video, installation, collaboration, performance, writing and curatorial work as seductive tropes channeled through the sensibility of a cynical queer eco-feminist androgyne. She is a collective member of Chicks on Speed and the co-curator of Ridykeulous. Steiner lives in Brooklyn and is represented by Taxter & Spengemann in New York City.

HITO STEYERL is a filmmaker and writer based in Berlin. She is a guest professor at the UdK Berlin in experimental media creation. Her writing focuses on documentary artforms. Her exhibitions include the Shanghai Biennial (2008), Pancevo Biennial (2008), Documenta 12, 3rd Berlin Biennial, and Manifesta. 5.

IRINA TCHMYREVA is currently the head researcher of the photography and multi-media department of Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), which is actively building its contemporary photography collection. She has organized several exhibitions of historical and contemporary Russian photography for MMOMA and other institutions. She was the co-curator (with E. Berezner) of Russian Pictorial Photography: 1890-1990 for FotoFest 2002 in Houston. Dr. Tchmyreva is an assistant professor at the department of art book design at Moscow State University of Printing Arts. She is a member of the international editorial boards of the magazines European Photography, Fotografia Kwartalnik and IMAGO, the co-founder and editor of www.photographer.ru, and the author of several texts for books on Russian photography.

PENELOPE UMBRICO attended Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Canada, and received her M.F.A. at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She has had numerous solo exhibitions of her work, including at the International Center of Photography, NY; Julie Saul Gallery, NY; Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston; P/M Gallery, Toronto; and her work has been included in group shows at the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Austrailia; Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, NY; Massachusetts College of Art, Boston; Photographic Resource Center, Boston; Art in General, NY; Gallery 44, Toronto; Dazibao, Montreal; Ansel Adams Center for Photography, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA. Umbrico's work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; International Center of Photography; Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts, Catalogue Project Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists Fellowship, and a Harvestworks Scholar Fellowship. She is currently the Chair of MFA Photography at Bard College, as well as core faculty at the School of Visual Arts, MFA Photography and Related Media program in NYC.

CHARLIE WHITE is a photographer and filmmaker who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. His photographs have been exhibited at institutions throughout the world, including the Center of Contemporary Art in Salamanca, Spain; Oberösterreichische Landesmuseen in Linz, Austria; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; MCA Chicago; and the Bergen Kunsthall, Norway. White is assistant professor and Director of the MFA program at the University of Southern California. A new monograph on his work, titled MONSTERS, was published by powerHouse Books in 2007. White's work was recently included in the exhibition Art in America Now, organized by the Guggenheim Museum for MOCA Shanghai. Currently, White's work is on exhibition in The Puppet Show at ICA Philadelphia. White will have solo exhibitions of a new series of works in Berlin and London this coming fall.

MARK WYSE received an MFA from Yale University School of the Art in 2001. His work has been featured in publications including Art in America, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Art on Paper, Blind Spot, The Los Angeles Times and The Village Voice. His first monograph, 18 Landscapes is published by Nazraeli Press. Wyse's work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Yale University Art Museum and the La Salle Bank Photography Collection in Chicago. He is represented by Wallspace in New York, NY. Wyse lives and works in Los Angeles.

AMIR ZAKI is a practicing artist living in Southern California. He received his MFA from UCLA in 1999 and has been regularly and actively exhibiting photographs and videos nationally and internationally since. Zaki has had solo shows at the Mak Center Schindler House in West Hollywood, Perry Rubenstein Gallery in New York, James Harris Gallery in Seattle, and Roberts and Tilton in Los Angeles. He has been included in many group exhibitions in significant venues including The California Biennial: 2006 at the Orange County museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, Grimm/Rosenfeld Gallery in Munich, Germany, Harris Lieberman Gallery in New York, the California Museum of Photography, and the San Jose Museum of Art. Zaki's work is part of numerous public and private collections across the country including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington, the Orange County Museum of Art, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Recently, he has been included in a Phaidon Press anthology of contemporary photography called 'Vitamin Ph'.