Every year Light Work invites between twelve and fifteen artists to come to Syracuse to devote one month to creative projects. Over 400 artists have participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program, and many of them have gone on to achieve international acclaim.

The residency includes a $5,000 stipend, a furnished artist apartment, 24-hour access to our state-of-the-art facilities, and generous staff support. Work by each Artist-in-Residence is published in a special edition of Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual along with an essay commissioned by Light Work. Work by former Artists-in-Residence is also part of the Light Work Collection.

We are pleased to announce the 2014 Light Work Artists-in-Residence!

Kalpesh Lathigra

Daniel Shea

Rose Cromwell

Ben Huff

Robert Benjamin

Jessica Labatte

Rory Mulligan

Kristine Potter

Keren Shavit

Gregory Halpern

Keisha Scarville

Wayne Lawrence

Mary Mattingly

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See past Artists-in-Residence at www.lightwork.org/air
Applications are now open for 2015. Apply at lightwork.slideroom.com

4 Prints + 1 Book + Contact Sheet
2014 Benefactors Offer

The Benefactor Offer represents an excellent way to further your collection, while supporting Light Work’s mission. Contributors of $1,500 will receive James Welling‘s image from the Master Print Edition, all three prints in our Fine Print Program (John Chervinsky, Lucas Foglia, Irina Rozovsky), and a signed copy of Strangely Familiar by Peter Mitchell. In total, a $2,015 value! By participating in this category you will save on the cost of the prints and book, and receive a one-year subscription to Contact Sheet.

About the artists:

James Welling‘s work centers on an exploration of photography, shuffling the elemental components of the medium to produce distinctly uncompromising results. During his career, Welling has experimented with different photographic mediums, including Polaroids, silver gelatin prints, photograms, and digital prints, exploring the tensions of and between representation and abstraction.

John Chervinsky is a self-taught photographer. He is also an engineer working in the field of applied physics and spent eighteen years running a particle accelerator at Harvard University.

Lucas Foglia‘s photographs explore the relationships between people, economy, and wilderness in rural America.

Irina Rozovsky‘s project One to Nothing depicts an Israel we do not see on the news. Her images describe a place beyond politics; they do not defend a side or critique the conflict.

Despite being widely exhibited, collected, and written about since the 1970s, Peter Mitchell’s photographs of Leeds – where he continues to live and work – have never before been published as a monograph. Strangely Familiar presents 47 color plates, beautifully printed, and the book opens with an introduction by photographer Martin Parr.

All proceeds from our Fine Print Program go directly to supporting artists working in photography.

Browse the new prints and books online at www.lightwork.org/shop

Irina Rozovsky
Untitled (from One to Nothing), 2011
Archival inkjet print, 10 x 10 in. on 14 x 11 in. paper
Shipped in a 18 x 14 in. mat
Edition of 50, signed and numbered by the artist

Light Work is pleased to announce a limited edition print by photographer Irina Rozovsky as part of the 2014 Fine Print Program.

Irina Rozovsky’s project One to Nothing depicts an Israel we do not see on the news. Her images describe a place beyond politics; they do not defend a side or critique the conflict. Israel is seen as a mythological backdrop to the age-long struggle between man and the dusty, sun-bleached landscape of his origin. A loose, subtle, and open-ended narrative, One to Nothing describes a historic tension with unusual observations. This beautiful, limited-edition color print portrays two brothers locked in a stalemate on the shores of the Dead Sea, a battle we seem to have been fighting since the beginning of time. The image graces the cover of Rozovsky’s first monograph, One to Nothing (Kehrer Verlag, 2011). Rozovsky’s work has been published and exhibited internationally. Solo and group shows include Smith College, Northampton, MA; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Breda International Photo Festival, Breda, The Netherlands; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI; Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL; and Noorderlicht Festival, Groningen, The Netherlands. Rozovsky participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program in August 2012.

All proceeds from our Fine Print Program go directly to supporting artists working in photography.

Browse the new prints and books online at www.lightwork.org/shop

This is the fourth piece of our multi-part blog installment featuring a photographic artist, and previous Light Work Artist-In-Residence. This week we hear from Susan Worsham. The statement that follows is Worsham’s answer to our questions, folded together into a series of captivating memories.

I remember showing executive Director Jefferey Hoone and some of the Light Work staff pictures that I had made around Syracuse during my residency. Someone said and everyone agreed that I had made Syracuse look like the south. That was an eye opener for me, and I realized from that experience that I bring “home” with me wherever I go and it is in every portrait and picture that I make. That simple observation opened up a bigger world for me in my head. That I could make work anywhere.

Light Work has now become like a second Home to me and with that comes all of the support that a family brings. It is now a part of my history and is intertwined with my roots as a growing artist. In turn I am a part of Light Work’s long history of supporting artists, one that does not stop once the month long residency is over.

I remember my first night in the artist’s apartment was spent staying up late with a large stack of Light Work’s publication Contact Sheet all over the bed, reading about all of the artists that had come before me.

Just two years after my residency I now hold Contact Sheet number 168 in my hands. An exhibition catalog of my own that not only holds my work, but my personal story as well. To accompany this catalog Light Work gave me my first solo show in the same gallery that as a visiting artist I walked by everyday and wondered what my work would look like on it’s walls.

The recorded voice of my oldest neighbor from my childhood street greeted me through speakers in the gallery’s ceiling making the exhibit more than just a collection of photographs, but again a home away from home.

Just three months later it was because of Light Work that I had my first solo show in my hometown at Candela Books + Gallery. In attendance were neighbors from my childhood street telling me how proud my mother would have been. Many were holding my Light Work Contact Sheet as they looked at the work on the walls. The work that was printed at Light Work.

This summer I had a room in The Ogden Museum of Southern Art filled with my work and again I traveled to Light Work where they helped me print the photographs.

I try to get back once a year to make work in Syracuse and visit my friends at Light Work. Many of the accomplishments that I have made in my career would not have been possible without their support.

Susan Worsham was born in Richmond, Virginia. She took her first photography class while studying graphic design in college. In 2009 Susan was nominated for the Santa Fe Prize For Photography, and her book “Some Fox Trails In Virginia” won first runner up in the fine art category of the Blurb Photography Book Now International Competition. In 2010 Susan was awarded the first TMC / Kodak Film Grant, and was an artist in residence at Light Work in Syracuse, New York. Her work is held in private collections, and has been exhibited at the Corcoran Museum during FotoWeek D.C, The Photographic Center Northwest, Dean Jensen Gallery, and most recently at the Danville Museum in Virginia. Susan was named one of PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers To Watch in 2011.

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Find a signed limited-edition print by Susan Worsham for sale in the Light Work Shop.

Stay tuned for next week’s feature, with Lucas Foglia.

This is the third piece of our multi-part blog installment featuring a photographic artist, and previous Light Work Artist-In-Residence. This week we hear from Jim Stone

How did your residency experience at Light Work influence your work? What progress did you make while here?

As a result of Light Work’s support I was able to make a significant body of new work, prints from which ended up in museum collections across the country and internationally.

How did your residency experience at Light Work influence your career? What came next?

My residency led directly to the 1993 monograph “Stranger Than Fiction” that was for Light Work, I believe, a kind of model for future collaborative mid-career projects. Although it is impossible to quantify, I cannot overstate the importance of Light Work’s sponsorship on my career.

Jim Stone turned to photography while studying engineering at MIT. His photographs have been exhibited and published internationally, and collected by the Museum of Modern Art, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among many others. Six of his books, A User’s Guide to the View Camera, Darkroom Dynamics, A Short Course in Photography and A Short Course in Digital Photography (with Barbara London), Photography and Photography, the Essential Way (London, Stone, Upton), are in wide and continued use for university-level courses, and there have been three artist’s books published of his photographs, Stranger Than Fiction (Light Work, 1993), Historiostomy (Piltdown Press, 2001), and Why My Pictures are Good (Nazraeli Press, 2005).

Stone has received awards from the Massachusetts Arts Council, The New England Foundation for the Arts, The San Francisco Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was the editor of Polaroid’s Newsletter for Photographic Education, and taught formerly at the Rhode Island School of Design and Boston College. Currently he is Professor of Photography at the University of New Mexico.

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Find a signed monograph by Jim Stone for sale in the Light Work Shop.

Stay tuned for next week’s feature, with Susan Worsham.