Gregory Halpern presents Retrospective: Photography, bookmaking, exhibiting and How the “documentary” has changed to include more fictional and surreal approaches. He will show a number of projects made over the past 20 years, starting with his own student work and ending with a new book-in-progress. Halpern will share thoughts on photography, bookmaking, exhibiting, and how his vision of “documentary” has changed to include more fictional and surreal approaches.
Gregory Halpern has published seven books of photographs, including Let the Sun Beheaded Be (2020), Omaha Sketchbook (2019), Confederate Moons (2018), ZZYZX (2016), A (2011) and East of the Sun, West of the Moon (2014), a collaboration with his wife, Ahndraya Parlato. He is also the editor of The Photographer’s Playbook: Over 250 Assignments and Ideas (2014). He holds a BA in History and Literature from Harvard University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014 and is an Associate Member of Magnum Photos. He teaches photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He lives in Rochester with his wife Ahndraya Parlato, and their two daughters.