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Curators
Alanna Airitam
Alanna Airitam is a 2020 San Diego Art Prize winner, 2020 Top 50 Critical Mass Finalist, and recipient of the 2020 Michael Reichmann Project Grant Award. Her photographs have been exhibited at Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, Quint Gallery in San Diego, San Diego Art Institute, Art Miami with Catherine Edelman, Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, Colorado Photographic Arts Center in Denver, and Candela Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. Her work has been acquired for the Virginia Museum of Fine Art’s collection. Airitam has led workshops and mentorships for Oakwood Arts. Born and raised in Queens, New York, Airitam now resides in Tucson, Arizona.
Dana Stirling
Dana Stirling is a still life and fine art photographer, and the Co-Founder & Editor In-Chief of Float Photo Magazine. Dana was born in Jerusalem, Israel, and is now based in Queens, NY ; she received her MFA from The School Of Visual Arts in Photography, Video, and Related Media in 2016 and her BA from Hadassah College Jerusalem in Photographic Communications in 2013.
Eric Kunsman
Eric Kunsman is a photographer and book artist based out of Rochester, New York. Eric works at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) as an Assistant Professor for the Visual Communications Studies Department at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and is an adjunct professor for the School of Photographic Arts & Sciences. He currently owns Booksmart Studio, which is a fine art digital printing & book publishing studio, specializing in numerous techniques and services for photographers & book artists on a collaborative basis.
Michael Chovan-Dalton
Michael Chovan-Dalton is the creator of the podcast Real Photo Show and the producer of PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf. He is a professor and coordinator of Photography at Mercer County Community College in New Jersey and the Director of the JKC Gallery in Trenton NJ. Chovan-Dalton received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts and his MFA from Columbia University.
Yoav Friedlander
I am the co-founder of Float Photo Magazine [2014] and the Rust Belt Biennial [2018]. I was born in Jerusalem [1985] and spent most of my life in my hometown town of Maale-Adummim. Between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, on a limestone hill at the edge of the Judean mountains, my perception of the world got its shape. After 18 years of preparations, I’ve joined the army for a mandatory service of 3 years. I started my service as a paratrooper and followed my father’s footsteps and also my Grandfather’s, Kurt (Arie), who fled Austria to Israel after the Kristallnacht, was a British Brigades soldier during WWII and later served in the Israeli Army.
CURRENT AND PAST PARTNERS & SPONSORS
About Booksmart Studio
Booksmart Studio is a fine art print studio that specializes in producing artwork, whether it is in print or book form, that utilizes digital printing. Booksmart Studio offers artists and photographers the ability to have their fine-edition work produced by our Master Printer. All of our digital specialists and printmakers are practicing artists, many of who understand the anxiety of turning over your passion and work to another person for completion. We know what it means to be an artist and how inspirational your artwork is to you as an artist. Being able to work with an artisan that fully respects your vision and produces a final piece of work that captures your idea or concept is unique. We also have our Libro Collection Portfolio line of products.
About Float Photo
Float Photo Magazine was founded in March 2014 and was created with the goal to share and celebrate the photographic work of a versatile roster of contemporary photographers from around the world. From young and emerging to established artists, Float features high quality and creative work with the intention to inspire and push forward the photo community. In addition to their growing online and social platform, Float curates themed online magazine issues where emerging artists and established artists share the pages to create a unique visual representation of the selected theme.
Float offers artists various opportunities and platforms for exposure - Instagram takeovers, book reviews, artist interviews, curated online magazine issues, online and physical exhibitions and more. Float takes pride in collaborating with many other platforms to create a unique, open minded and welcoming space for photographers. Since 2014 Float has collaborated with Littlefield Art Space to have their group exhibition ‘Space’ shown for several weeks, Subjectively Objective creating together a photo publication ‘The Vernacular Of Landscape’ along with an exhibition of selected works at Usagi NY, a summer group show at Carrie Able gallery in Brooklyn curated by Damien Anger, a collaboration with Casual Science on a printed publication with an enamel pin set and in addition with the first Rust Belt Biennial exhibition that ran in September of 2019 at the Sordoni Gallery Wilkes University, PA.
About FUJIFILM North America
FUJIFILM North America Corporation, a marketing subsidiary of FUJIFILM Holdings America Corporation, consists of five operating divisions and one subsidiary company. The Imaging Division provides consumer and commercial photographic products and services, including: photographic paper; digital printing equipment, along with service and support; personalized photo products; film; one-time-use cameras; and the popular INSTAX® line of instant cameras and accessories. The Electronic Imaging Division markets consumer digital cameras, lenses, and content creation solutions, and the Graphic Systems Division supplies products and services to the graphic printing industry. The Optical Devices Division provides optical lenses for the broadcast, cinematography, closed-circuit television, videography, and industrial markets, and also markets binoculars and other optical imaging solutions. The Industrial and Corporate New Business Development Division delivers new products derived from Fujifilm technologies. FUJIFILM Canada Inc. sells and markets a range of FUJIFILM products and services in Canada.
For more information, please visit https://www.fujifilm.com/us/en, go to https://www.twitter.com/fujifilmus to follow Fujifilm on Twitter, or go to https://www.facebook.com/FujifilmNorthAmerica to like Fujifilm on Facebook
About the JKC Gallery
The JKC Gallery was founded in 2017 as part of a community effort to increase the presence of and access to art in Trenton, New Jersey. Michael Chovan-Dalton has been the gallery director from its beginning. The gallery is dedicated to photography and the related arts, and to showing work from emerging artists to artists with international recognition. As a college and community based gallery, Chovan-Dalton has selected artists with diverse backgrounds and a wide range of styles and ideas about what photography can be, from straight photography to sculptural installations that include photography. Since the pandemic, the gallery has hosted many virtual artist talks and will continue to host hybrid virtual and in-person receptions.