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

Pacifico Silano is a lens-based artist whose work is an exploration of print culture and the circulation of imagery. Born in Brooklyn, NY, he received his MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts. Reviews of his work have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, Artforum and The New York Times. He is a winner of the Individual Photographer’s Fellowship from the Aaron Siskind Foundation and a Finalist for the Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize. He is a 2016 fellow in Photography with the New York Foundation for the Arts. A selection of his work will be included in the exhibition “Fantasy America” at The Warhol Museum in the Fall of 2018.

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

Morgan Ashcom (born in Free Union, Virginia, 1982) is a photographer based in Charlottesville, VA. He received his BFA from George Mason University and his MFA from the University of Hartford. Ashcom’s work has been exhibited and published both nationally, internationally and has won numerous awards including Center’s Choice Awards, the German Photobook Award and Center for Photography at Woodstock’s Photography Now Purchase Prize. Ashcom has been an artist in residence at Light Work and has taught photography at Western Connecticut State University, Ithaca College, University of Hartford, Cornell University and the University of Virginia. His forthcoming book, What the Living Carry, will be published by Mack in 2017.

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.

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

John Edmonds is an artist working in photography, fabric, text and installation.  He received his MFA in Photography from Yale University School of Art and his BFA in Photography at the Corcoran School of Arts + Design. He is most recognized for his projects Hoods and All Eyes On Me, where he focused on the performative gestures and self-fashioning of young black men on the streets of America, as well as his evocative portraits of lovers, close friends and strangers. He has held residencies at the Center of Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York; The Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine; Light Work, Syracuse, New York and FABRICA: The United Colors of Benneton’s Research Center, Treviso, Italy.

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

Rose Marie Cromwell is a photographic and video artist whose work explores the effects of globalization on human interaction and social politics.  She is also interested in the tenuous space between the political and the spiritual. Cromwell has been awarded a number of residencies and awards including a Fulbright Fellowship and a Light Work Residency.  Her first solo show was at the Diablo Rosso Gallery, she participated in the 1st Bienale del Sur in Panama, and currently has a solo exhibition on view at Antítesis Gallery in Panama City. Her first book dummy was recently shortlisted for the Mack First Book Prize in 2017.  Cromwell’s work has been published online and in print in a variety of international magazines, including the 2014, 2015, 2016 Vice Photography Issues, Camera Austria, Time Lightbox, ARC Magazine, Musee Magazine, The Oxford American, and The British Journal of Photography.

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

Mila Teshaieva has been exhibited around the world and in past years she had solo exhibitions in State Museum of European Cultures Berlin, Haggerty Museum of Art, Alma Lov Museum in Sweden and Museum Art of West Coast in Germany. Her monograph Promising Waters (Kehrer 2013) was named a Select Title of the German Photo Book Award, and in 2016 she published her second monograph InselWesen. She lives in Berlin and currently works on her long – term project in Balkans.