Photography - Faculty
David Scheinbaum
Chair, Photography Department
BA, City University of New York
David Scheinbaum worked with the preeminent photo historian Beaumont Newhall and is the executor of his estate. His photographs appear in the books Bisti, Miami Beach: Photographs of an American Dream, Ghost Ranch: Land of Light, and Images in the Heavens, Patterns on the Earth: The I Ching. He has exhibited internationally and is represented in many collections, including the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, N.M.; the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas; the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris; the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, N.Y.; and the Center of Creative Photography in Tucson, Ariz. With his wife, Janet Russek, he operates Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd., private fine art photography dealers and consultants in Santa Fe.
Read about Scheinbaum in the Black & White Magazine article "Scheinbaum's Shoes" by Michael More.
Steve Fitch
Faculty, Photography Department
MA, The University of New Mexico
BA, University of California
Steve Fitch has exhibited his photographs nationally and internationally. His work is included in more than 30 public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York's Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of American Art, and the George Eastman House. He has also received many awards, including three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and the Eliot Porter Fellowship.
Fitch photographs the vernacular of the American West. A traveling exhibition of his photographs was organized in conjunction with the publication of his book Gone: Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains. Previous books of his photographs include Diesels and Dinosaurs: Photographs from the American Highway, Marks in Place: Contemporary Responses to Rock Art, and Vintage Neon (to which he was a contributor). He also creates neon sculptures and pen-and-ink drawings.
Tony O'Brien
Faculty, Photography Department
BA, College of Santa Fe
Tony O'Brien was born in New York City and has made his home in Santa Fe, N.M., for the past 30 years. He began his photography career in 1973. His work has appeared in LIFE, Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times Magazine, among many other national and international publications. He has documented the lives of drug addicts and prostitutes on the streets of Washington, D.C., and New York; the struggle of Afghan rebels fighting the Soviet occupation of their country; and a British expedition climbing Mount Everest. O'Brien spent six months in the Middle East in 1991, covering the Persian Gulf for LIFE and spent a year documenting the life of Christ in the Desert, a small northern New Mexico Benedictine community. He returned to Afghanistan in 2003 and 2007 to work with filmmaker and co-author Mike Sullivan on their children's book, Afghan Dreams: Young Voices of Afghanistan, published by Bloomsbury Press in the fall of 2008.
O'Brien's photography has been exhibited at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Mass.; The Adham Center, Sony Gallery for Photography in Cairo, Egypt; the Atrium Gallery at the Marion Center of Photographic Arts in Santa Fe, N.M.; and the Newseum in Washington, D.C., among others. In 1990, he won the first Eliot Porter Foundation Grant for his work in Afghanistan. He created and was director of the Documentary Studies program at the Marion Center of Photographic Arts, College of Santa Fe. O'Brien also teaches photography workshops in Santa Fe and abroad. He is represented by VERVE Gallery of Photography in Santa Fe. He is presently working on two books, one about children along the U.S./Mexico border and another about contemplative life to be published by the Museum of New Mexico Press.
Jo Whaley
Faculty, Photography Department
MFA, MA, BA, University of California, Berkeley
With a background in painting and scenic art, Jo Whaley infuses her photographs with the illusionary world of the theatre. She received advanced degrees in painting and photography from the University of California, Berkeley.
For more than 25 years, Whaley has exhibited in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Her work is held in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the George Eastman House. She was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Award. In 2008, her traveling exhibition The Theater of Insects opened at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., and continues to tour throughout the United States. The exhibition was accompanied by a monograph published by Chronicle Books.
With more than 20 years of teaching experience, Whaley has taught photography at the San Francisco Art Institute, Stanford University, the California College of the Arts, San José State University, and the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art.
Chris Nail
Contributing Faculty and Technician, Photography Department
BFA, College of Santa Fe
Chris Nail has more than eight years experience as a museum educator, having developed programs for institutions such as SITE Santa Fe and the Art Museum of Western Virginia.
He has also worked as an independent educational consultant for arts organizations. His current bodies of work focus on formal examinations of utilitarian structures and portraits of small agricultural communities in south central and south eastern Kansas.
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