Janelle Lynch

Janelle Lynch
Nationality American
Education School of Visual Arts
Known for Photography

Janelle Lynch is an American large-format (8-x-10-inch) landscape photographer.[1][2][3][4][5][6] She teaches at the International Center of Photography and was the 2013 Artist-in-Residence at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY.[7][8] In 1999, she received an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, where she studied with Stephen Shore and Joel Sternfeld. In 2003, she completed the Master Class in Photography, a one-on-one tutorial, with Shore at Bard College.

For nearly twenty years, Lynch has been actively engaged with the medium, creating long-term projects in the United States, Mexico, and Spain. She has two monographs published by Radius Books: Los Jardines de México (2010) and Barcelona (2013).[9][10][11]

Lynch’s photographs are in several international private and public collections, including, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, New York Public Library, New York, NY, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, Fundación AMYC, Madrid, Spain and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Salta, Argentina.

In 2008, juror Charlotte Cotton named Los Jardines de México a finalist for the Santa Fe Prize for Photography. Los Jardines de México has been internationally exhibited, including one-person shows at the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL and the Museo Archivo de la Fotografía, Mexico City, Mexico. In 2013, it was featured at the Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise Festival, Nantes, France.

In 2013, jurors Charlotte Cotton and Diana Edkins named Lynch’s Walls series (from Barcelona) a finalist for The Cord Prize. [12]Also in 2013, Lynch was named the first Artist-in-Residence at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY. The resulting project, Presence, was acquired by the museum and exhibited there in 2014.

Lynch’s practice has been supported by substantial 8-x-10 film grants from Kodak in 2007, 2008, and 2011. Lynch lectures widely and is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography, where she teaches seminars related to the landscape. She writes about contemporary issues in photography, reviews books and exhibitions for Afterimage, The Photo Review, and photo-eye. She was a 2012-2013 Fellow at The Writers’ Institute, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.[13]


References

  1. ↑ Risch, Conor. Inside The Garden, Photo District News July, 2011.
  2. ↑ Weideman, Paul. Photo Synthesis, The Santa Fe New Mexican 22 July 2011, pp 28-29.
  3. ↑ Bufill, Juan. Rio Industrial, La Vanguardia 20 September 2009.
  4. ↑ D’Imbert, S. Muñoz. Janelle Lynch: El Riu Llobregat o l’elegia d’allò que va ser, Bon Art September, 2009, p77.
  5. ↑ Bufill, Juan. Ritmo de Ruinas, La Vanguardia 14 October 2007, p.45.
  6. ↑ Koetzle, Hans-Michael. Portfolio: Janelle Lynch, Photo-International September–October 2007, no. 5, pp. 50-57.
  7. ↑ International Center of Photography, Faculty Page.
  8. ↑ Burchfield Penney Art Center, Artist in Residence profile.
  9. ↑ Feeney, Mark. Uncommon beauty in Janelle Lynch's 'Los Jardine de Mexico', The Boston Globe, Boston, 2 December 2011.
  10. ↑ Robson, Faye. Los Jardines de Mexico, photo eye Magazine 17 October 2011.
  11. ↑ Smithson, Aline. JANELLE LYNCH: BARCELONA, Lenscratch,13 January 2014.
  12. ↑ The Cord Prize, Finalist Page.
  13. ↑ Photo Eye, articles.

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