Michael Kolster is a photographer and associate professor of art at Bowdoin College who, in 2013, was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in Photography. His photographs have been featured in Loupe, the Journal of the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Memorious, and Consilience—The Journal of Sustainability, and they are in the collections of the Capital One Financial Corporation, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, and Polaroid Corporation, among others. Kolster has numerous solo and two-person exhibitions, including those at Gallery 263 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Page Bond Gallery in Richmond, Virginia, SRO Gallery at Texas Tech University, Schroeder Romero and Shredder Gallery in New York City, and 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, Florida.
D. J. Waldie, a writer, poet, translator, and editor who lives in the same house in Lakewood, California, his parents purchased in 1946, retired as the city administrator for the City of Lakewood in 2010. He has written numerous books of nonfiction and contributed to books of photography, including the widely-acclaimed Holy Land: a Suburban Memoir (W. W. Norton, 1996 and 2005), Real City: Downtown Los Angeles Inside/out (Angel City Press, 2003), Close to Home: an American Album (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004), and Where We Are Now: Notes From Los Angeles (Angel City Press, 2004).
Frank Gohlke is one of america’s most famous photographers and currently the Laureate Professor Of Photography at the University Of Arizona. His photographs have been exhibited widely, including in the influential New Topographics Exhibition (1975) at the George Eastman House as well as in solo exhibitions at the Amon Carter Museum. His books of photography include Measure Of Emptiness: Grain Elevators In The American Landscape (Johns Hopkins, in association with The Center For American Places, 1992), Mount St. Helens (Museum Of Modern Art, 2005), and the retrospective, Accommodating Nature: The Photographs Of Frank Gohlke (Center For American Places, in association with the Amon Carter Museum, 2007).
