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“Down These Mean Streets”

An interview with photographer Will Steacy

by Janna Washington

“The Forum, Philadelphia, 2008” from Down These Mean Streets

Will Steacy is an American photographer. Born in Philadelphia, he received a B.F.A in Photography from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Steacy worked as Union Laborer before becoming a photographer. His photographs have been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums across the country and are included in many private and public collections. In 2008, Steacy was selected by powerHouse Books and The Center for Documentary Studies for 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers, and was awarded a prestigious Tierney Fellowship. He lives and works in New York.

Steacy’s most recent project, Down These Mean Streets, which focuses on America’s crumbling cities, will be on view as part of the Tierney Fellowship Group Show at the New York Photo Festival (Tobacco Warehouse, 26 New Dock Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY) from May 13 to May 17, and in New York University’s Gulf and Western Gallery (721 Broadway, first floor, New York, NY) beginning on June 4, 2009.

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April 30, 2009 at 6:36pm

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“A Strange Sound In The Deep Silence”

Photographer Morgan Levy’s images of Iceland

Interview by Janna Washington

Upon graduating from the Department of Photography and Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in May of 2007, photographer Morgan Levy was awarded the Daniel Rosenberg Fellowship. The fellowship was established in 1989 by Irwin and Civia Rosenberg in memory of their son Dan, who received his BFA from the Photo Department in 1988. The fellowship enables one graduating senior to pursue a project involving travel, which will later be shown in a one-person exhibition at Tisch.

With the fellowship, Levy was able to return to Iceland, which she had visited and photographed once before. The body of work she created there, entitled “A Strange Sound In The Deep Silence,” may be viewed on her website.

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February 7, 2009 at 12:19pm