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BIOGRAPHY
Jeff Rich’s work focuses on water issues ranging from recreation and sustainability to exploitation and abuse.
Jeff explores these subjects by using long-term photographic documentations of very specific regions of the
United States. Jeff received his MFA in photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah,
Georgia. Jeff's project “Watershed: A Survey of The French Broad River Basin” was recently awarded the
2010 Critical Mass Book Award. His work has been featured on Fraction Magazine and as one of Daylight
Magazine’s monthly podcasts as well as Photo-Eye’s Photographer’s Showcase. Jeff was recently named
as one of the winners of the Magenta Flash Forward 2011 Emerging Photographers Competition.
Jeff is represented by Jennifer Schwartz Gallery in Atlanta.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Watershed, United Photo Industries, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Watershed, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
2012 Watershed, Pink Dog Creative, Asheville, NC
2012 Watershed, Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, IN
2012 Watershed, Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, GA
2012 Watershed, Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2011 Watershed, Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, VA
2011 Watershed, Workspace Gallery, Lincoln, NE
2009 Watershed, Warren Wilson College, Holden Art Gallery, Asheville, NC
2008 Watershed, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2008 River of Words and Art/Watershed, Pack Place Community Gallery/Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Looking at the Land, Digital Exhibition, curated by Andy Adams
2011 No Place in Particular: Images of the American Landscape, MOCA, Jacksonville, FL
2011 Echoes of the Sublime, Emily Amy Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2011 Summer Salon, Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2011 Across the Divide: Critical Mass 2010 Photo Center Northwest, Seattle
2011 Newspace Center for Photography, Portland and Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco
2011 DeFine Art Faculty Show, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2010 Appalachian Photographers Project, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
2010 Grounded, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2009 Still Water, The Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA
2008 The Light Factory First Juried Annuale. The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
2007 Flood, Beaver Contemporary Art Center, Jacksonville, FL
2007 Hand Harvested, Artists for a Greener Planet, Chicago, IL
2007 Pictures of Places, Visual Arts Center, Tidewater Community College, Portsmouth, VA
2007 Emerging Visions, Atlanta Photography Group Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007 2-3-d-6, Energy Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007 Conservation and Construction, Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, GA
2004 Intimate Isolation, 2000AD Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2003 Georgia Photographers Only, Atlanta Photography Group Gallery, Atlanta, GA
AWARDS
2011 Magenta Flash Forward Emerging Photographer
2010 Photolucida Critical Mass Book Award Winner
2009 Nominated for the John Gutmann Award
2009 Honorable Mention, Blurb Photography Book Now Contest
2009 Outstanding Academic Achievement, Photography Department, Savannah College of Art and Design
2008 Graduate Scholarship, Society for Photographic Education
2007 Juror’s Choice, Flood, Beaver Contemporary Art Center
2006 Graduate Fellowship, Savannah College of Art and Design
2002 Official Selection Cannes Film Festival, Quinzaine Réalisatuers, short film “Next Door”
PUBLICATIONS
2012 Watershed: The French Broad River, artist monograph, photolucida
2011 Flash forward 2011: emerging photographers from Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States, Magenta Publishing
2011 The New York Times
2011 Oxford American Magazine
SELECTED PRESS
2012 Norm Powers “Down by the River” Bold Life Magazine, September 25th www.boldlife.com
2012 Carol Motsinger “Asheville River Exhibit Takes Wide Focus” Asheville Citizen-Times, September 23rd
2012 Geoffrey Hiller “Watershed” Verve Photo, July 13th, vervephoto.wordpress.com
2012 Conor Risch “Environmental Protection: Take Me to the River” PDN Magazine, issue 7, July 2012 (online version here)
2012 Andy Adams, “Watershed: The French Broad River.” Flak Photo Galleries, flakphoto.com
2012 Antone Dolezal “photo-eye Book Reviews: Watershed” photo-eye Blog, blog.photoeye.com
2012 Daniel Coburn “Watershed Book Review” Fraction Magazine, Issue 38, fractionmagazine.com
2012 Christina Cotter “Jeff Rich merges provocative questions, beautiful imagery in photos at Jennifer Schwartz Gallery,” ArtsCriticATL, artscriticatl.com
2012 Dylan York, “Watershed and Precious Things Recall Early Photography,” Burnaway, burnaway.org
2011 Allen Tullos, featured photograph “Clean-up on the Swannanoa River” Southern Spaces, southernspaces.org
2011 Jerry Cullum, “Photographers in ‘Echoes of the Sublime’ remake ‘sublime’ for the 21st Century, at Emily Amy Gallery,” ArtsCriticATL, artscriticatl.com
2011 Natalie Minik, “Watershed,” One, One Thousand, oneonethousand.org
2011 Allen Tullos, featured photograph “Blue Ridge paper mill” Southern Spaces, southernspaces.org
2010 David Bram, “Watershed,” Fraction Magazine, fractionmagazine.com
2009 Andy Adams, “Watershed.” Flak Photo, flakphoto.com
2009 Allen Tullos, featured photograph “Bridge Reconstruction” Southern Spaces, southernspaces.org
2009 Tammy Mercure, “Jeff Rich: Portfolio,” The Appalachian Photographers Project, appalachianphoto.org
2009 Taj Forer, “Jeff Rich: Watershed” Daylight Magazine (Online Multimedia Feature), daylightmagazine.org
2008 Jörg Colberg, Conscientious, jmcolberg.com
LECTURES / PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2012 Artist Lecture, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
2012 Artist Lecture, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2012 Artist Lecture, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
2012 Artist Lecture, Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, IN
2012 Artist Lecture, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
2011 When the Student Becomes the Teacher, Panel Discussion, Society for Photographic Education Southeast Regional Conference, Myrtle Beach, SC
2011 Artist Lecture, Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, VA
2010 Artist Lecture, Society for Photographic Education Southeast Regional Conference, Tallahassee, FL
2008 Artist Lecture, Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Denver, CO
2006 Artist Lecture, f/32 Photography Group, Asheville, NC
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2012 - Curator, Oxford American Magazine, Eyes on the South: Weekly emerging photographer series
2011 - The New York Times, Assignment Photographer, New York, NY
2011 - Oxford American Magazine, Assignment Photographer, Conway, AR
2009 - Adjunct Professor, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2009 - eLearning Course Developer, Savannah College of Art and Design
2004 - 09 Video Production and Editing Instructor, Oklahoma Arts Institute, Quartz Mountain, Oklahoma
2008 Teaching Assistant, Savannah College of Art and Design
EDUCATION
2008 MFA Photography, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2000 BFA Film and Video, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA |
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