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.
Zackary Drucker (born 1983) is an independent artist, cultural producer, and trans woman who breaks down the way we think about gender, sexuality, and seeing. She has performed and exhibited her work internationally in museums, galleries, and film festivals including the Whitney Biennial 2014, MoMA PS1, Hammer Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, MCA San Diego, and SF MoMA, among others. Drucker is an Emmy-nominated Producer for the docu-series This Is Me, as well as a Producer on Golden Globe and Emmy-winning Transparent.
