Upstate: Photographs by Tema Stauffer

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"Upstate" records the imprint of American industrial and agricultural history left on settings in and around Hudson, including the rural communities of Germantown and Livingston. Combining poetry with realism, the images express a quiet beauty and mystery in the vernacular architecture and artifacts reflecting the industrial era and rural settings in upstate New York and the shifting economic realities over time.

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Alison Nordstrm is an independent scholar, writer and curator based in Cambridge, Massachusetts specializing in historical and contemporary photographs of all kinds. Formerly the Director and Senior Curator of the Southeast Museum of Photography, (Florida) and Senior Curator of Photographs/Director of Exhibitions at George Eastman House, (New York) she is the author of over 100 published books and essays on photographic topics, and has curated over 100 photographic exhibitions in nine countries. Currently a Research Associate at Harvard, she is also a visiting scholar in photography at Lesley University and the photo/video editor for the Journal of Florida Studies. She has recently served as Artistic Director of Fotofestiwal Lodz, in Poland, and is an exhibition curator for the Hamburg (Germany) Triennial in 2018. She holds the PhD in Cultural and Visual Studies. Tema Stauffer is a photographer whose work examines the social, economic, and cultural landscape of American spaces. Her work has been exhibited at Sasha Wolf Gallery, Daniel Cooney Fine Art Gallery, and Jen Bekman Gallery in New York, as well as galleries and institutions internationally. She was awarded an AOL 25 for 25 Grant for innovation in the arts in 2010. She is the recipient of the 2012 Women in Photography LTI/Lightside Individual Project Grant and a 2014 CCNY Darkroom Residency for her documentary portrait series, Paterson, depicting residents of Paterson, New Jersey during the years following the economic crisis in 2008. She was a finalist for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2013 and her work was included in the competition exhibition at the Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery from 2013-14. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at East Tennessee State University. Xhenet Alius debut novel, Brass (Random House, 2018), was named a Spring 2018 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, received starred reviews in Kirkus, Booklist, and Library Journal, and was called a striking first novel by Publishers Weekly. Her short fiction collection, Domesticated Wild Things and Other Stories(University of Nebraska Press, 2013), won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction and was called extremely funny and mordant by author Sherman Alexie. Alius writing has appeared in journals such as Glimmer Train, Hobart,The Barcelona Review, Necessary Fiction, American Short Fiction, as well as in the anthology Extraordinary Rendition: (American) Writers on Palestine (O/R Books, 2015). A fellow of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Aliu has received financial support from the Elizabeth George Foundation and was the recipient of a special mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology.