| KATHERINE WOLKOFF |
Born in Bloomington, Indiana, Wolkoff graduated from Barnard College in 1998 with a degree in American History, and earned an M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University in 2003. Wolkoff, who currently lives and works in Brooklyn, was included in the inaugural Art + Commerce Festival of Emerging Photographers in 2004, and that same year was selected as one of Photo District News’s 30 emerging photographers. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times Magazine, and in 2007 was showcased at the gallery of the Aperture Foundation in New York.
Working with a large-format camera, Wolkoff confounds expectations of the medium by using reverse lighting conditions, so that forms and details are obscured by shadow. Lit from behind or bathed in moonlight, her silhouette-like images of figures in profile and nocturnal landscapes challenge the notion of photograph as document. Preferring to cultivate mystery, Wolkoff believes that the essence of a figure or site is revealed by imaginative rather than analytical means.
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