Gus Powell

Black and white image of man standing behind a tall stack of studio "apple boxes" looking away. The man is wearing glasses.

Editorial photographer, fine artist

MFA Photography, Video and Related Media
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Education

BA, Oberlin College


Professional experience includes

Photo editor, The New Yorker (fiction section); photo editor, researcher, Time-Life, Tricycle, Joe; photo assistant for Hiro, Nitin Vadukul, Joel Meyerowitz


Group exhibitions include

FotoGrafia International Festival, Rome; Foam, Amsterdam; TH Inside, Copenhagen; Museum of the City of New York; Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta; Studio Bee, Tokyo; French Trotters Gallery, Paris; Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery; Alice Austen House; McMullen Museum, Boston College; Jen Bekman Gallery; Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago


Clients include

Spin, Fortune, The New Yorker, Worth, Life, New York magazine, Foam, Newsweek


Book

The Company of Strangers 


Publications include

Paper Placemats; Bystander: A History of Street Photography; Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs; Print; DoubleTake; American Photography


Collections include

Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston


Awards and honors include

Photo District News; Cultural Specialist Grant, United States Department of Cultural Affairs