Every year Light Work invites twelve artists to come to Syracuse, New york to devote one month to creative projects. Over 400 artists have participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program since its inception. 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: Light Work Annual along with an essay commissioned by Light Work, and many of these artists form the basis for Light Work’s exhibitions program.

Featured here for the coming week are six recent Artists-in-Residence, including Morgan Ashcom, Rose Marie Cromwell, John Edmonds, Regine Petersen, Pacifico Silano, and Mila Teshaieva. Find more information about Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program, how to apply, and discover more past AIR at lightwork.org/air

Regine Petersen (b. 1976 in Hamburg, Germany) received her MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London (2009). Her work has been presented in various solo and group shows internationally, such as Rencontres d’Arles in France, Foam Museum in Amsterdam and Aperture Gallery in New York. She is a recipient of the National Media Museum Bursary, the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation Grant and winner of the Outset / Unseen Exhibition Award. Her publication “Find a Fallen Star” received the German Photobook Prize in 2015.