Fall 2023 RISD Photo Lecture Series
The RISD Photography Department is pleased to announce the following lectures this fall:
Fall 2023 RISD Photo TC Colley Lecture
Photo: Alec Soth, Ames Iowa, 2021
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Alec Soth
Alec Soth (b. 1969) is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has published over twenty-five books including Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004), NIAGARA (2006), Broken Manual (2010), Songbook (2015), I Know How Furiously Your Heart is Beating (2019), and A Pound of Pictures (2022). Soth has had over fifty solo exhibitions including survey shows organized by Jeu de Paume in Paris (2008), the Walker Art Center in Minnesota (2010) and Media Space in London (2015). Soth has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship (2013). In 2008, Soth created Little Brown Mushroom, a multi-media enterprise focused on visual storytelling. Soth is represented by Sean Kelly in New York, Weinstein Hammons Gallery in Minneapolis, Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, Loock Galerie in Berlin, and is a member of Magnum Photos.
Fall 2023 RISD Photo Gary Metz Lectures
Photo: Irina Rozovsky, Untitled from the series In Plain Air, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 2011
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Irina Rozovsky
Irina Rozovsky (born 1981, Moscow), makes photographs of people and places, transforming external landscapes into interior states. She has published three monographs: One to Nothing (Kehrer, 2011), Island in my Mind (Verlag Kettler, 2015), and In Plain Air (MACK, 2021). Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. Irina lives and works in Athens, Georgia where she and her husband Mark Steinmetz run the photography project space The Humid.
Photo: Odette England, There it is, always waiting for me, 2023
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Odette England
Odette England is an Anglo-Australian visual artist and writer. She is a 2022 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and has received awards from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Puffin Foundation, and Anonymous Was a Woman, among many others. She has published three award-winning photobooks and has another three coming out before fall 2024, having won this year’s Tall Poppy Press Award and a Polycopies Publishing Grant. England graduated from RISD in 2012 and received her Ph.D. in Art & Art History in 2018.