Photography Council’s Lunchtime Talk: Allison Grant and Evan Baden

Free to the general public. People are welcome to carry their lunch.

Within the Bittersweet: Artist and Publisher Talk with Allison Grant and Evan Baden

Photographer Allison Grant will talk about Within the Bittersweet, her long-form photographic undertaking that explores the emotional weight of elevating her daughters in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, towards the backdrop of local weather disaster and native industrial air pollution. Drawing on an extended custom of socially acutely aware photographers who make political work laden with the private, her photos negotiate urgent new considerations as our planet undergoes fast and irreversible change.

Grant can be joined by Oregon State University professor and writer Evan Baden, who oversees Composit Press. Composit is a student-run press that just lately printed a monograph of Grant’s undertaking. Baden will share insights into the publication course of and evolving panorama of photograph e-book publishing.

Allison Grant is an artist, author, curator, and Associate Professor of Photography at The University of Alabama. Her artworks have been broadly exhibited and are held in collections on the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, High Museum of Art, DePaul Art Museum, Columbia College Chicago, King County Portable Works Collection and a number of other non-public and company collections. Grant was named on the Silver Eye Center for Photography’s 2022 Silver List. She acquired the 2020 Portfolio Purchase Award from the Atlanta Photography Group, the 2019 Developed Work Fellowship from the Midwest Center for Photography and was shortlisted for the 2019 FotoFilmic Mesh Prize. Editorial images by Grant have been printed in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Evan Baden is an acclaimed practitioner of pictures. He earned his MFA from Columbia College in Chicago in 2014. He has had quite a few worldwide exhibitions, publications, and his work is held in a lot of necessary public collections. His work has been featured in quite a few publications together with TIME, The Guardian, FOAM, New York Magazine, Le Monde, D della Repubblica, Geo, and DIE ZEIT and lots of others. He has been a recipient of the Jerome Fellowship for Emerging Artists, the Stuart Abelson Graduate Research Fellowship, and Artist in Residence on the Oregon College of Art and Craft. He has been a finalist for the Betty Bowen Award, The McKnight Fellowship for Photography, and the Outwin Boochever. He is at present the proprietor of Push Pull Editions and the Director of COMPOSIT Press in addition to an Instructor at Oregon State University in Corvalis, Oregon.

The Lunchtime Talk collection is a presentation of the Portland Art Museum’s
Photography Council.