Joseph Maida is an artist, writer, and educator based in New York City. Having studied under Philip-Lorca di Corcia, Gregory Crewdson, Catherine Opie and Thomas Struth, Maida’s perspective uniquely navigates the intersections between photographic ideologies of the American Northeast (Walker Evans), West Coast Conceptualism, and the Düsseldorf School. Maida has taught at Yale University, Parsons the New School, SUNY Purchase, and is on the faculty at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), where he is Chair of the BFA Photography and Video department. Maida earned his BA summa cum laude from Columbia University in architecture and art history and his MFA in photography from Yale.
Zak Krevitt's work lives within his commitment to queer advocacy and represents his lived experiences both public and private. Their work also deals heavily in concepts of transformation, post-humanism, power-exchange, anthropology, and the ability to create authenticity through photographic crystallization of reified desire. For over a decade, they have been working with, marching for, and fundraising alongside his queer community for a variety of related causes. Most recently they began long distance cycling while making their photographs, in conjunction with fundraising efforts for HIV/AIDS. Krevitt is also a professor in the School of Visual Arts BFA Photography and Video Department in NYC under the guidance of Joseph Maida. He hopes to impart a spirit of activism, adventure, community and creative expansion to his students.
Molly Matalon is a photographer born and raised in South Florida. She received her BFA in Photography from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work deals with desire, idealization, and power dynamics, fixing a gaze that empowers and provides a rarely seen female photographic viewpoint. This sincere and personal language is carried through into her editorial work, which has been published in The New York Times, M, Le Monde, Interview Magazine, and Wallpaper*, among others. Vuu studio has published two monographs of her work, which has also been exhibited in the United States and internationally. Matalon currently lives and works in New York.
Corey Olsen is a photographer from Maine currently based in Brooklyn, New York. He received his BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in 2014. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at Julie Saul Gallery in New York City, following his first monograph, “Garage Still Lifes,” published by Silent Sound Books. Olsen also shoots commissions for clients including Nike, Alexander Wang, Kenzo, and Helmut Lang.
Pat O’Malley (b. 1989) is a photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. In 2014, he received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts. His work has been shown in group exhibitions in the United States and Europe, as well as featured in various print and web publications. He released his first book, Cruiser (self-published), in 2018. Whether shooting organically or in the studio, he uses flattened images to reveal the many layers of beauty and irony in our contemporary landscape and everyday objects. He is originally from Omaha, Nebraska.
Tim Schutsky (Born 1986, Philadelphia, Pa.), lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he works as a photographer for hire. His work has been published in The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Wallpaper* and Interview Magazine and has been exhibited both in the U.S. and internationally.
Originating from Cincinnati, Ohio, Caroline Tompkins received a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with her work featured on the BBC, Vogue, and The New York Times among many others. Caroline worked as a photo editor at Bloomberg Businessweek for five years before leaving to pursue her own practice in 2019. She is currently a professor at the School of Visual Arts as well as a freelance photographer for editorial and commercial clients. Caroline's photographs explore issues of female sexuality, localism, and the sincerity within them. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
