Discipline: Visual Art – photography

Christine Shank

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: Rochester, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014

Christine Shank is primarily a photographer. Her work is concerned with ideas of loss, contemplation, storytelling, isolation and the implication of a narrative. She worked on creating new images and a book mock-up of her body of work our first year together.

Studios

Nef

Christine Shank worked in the Nef studio.

Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…

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