Juror Bio's

Lee Brauer
Commercial Photographer
www.leebrauer.com
Lee Brauer Photography specializes in photography of people and their spaces for the Advertising, Architectural and Corporate communities. With twenty years experience Mr. Brauer creates images that grab your attention. As a founding member of the Central Virginia ASMP he is an active leader in the photographic community. If you need photography of humongous man-made objects or the people that make or live in them give him a call.

John Henley
Commercial Photographer
http://www.johnhenleyphoto.com/
John Henley attended the San Francisco Institute of Art where he was inspired by places like Big Sur and fell in love with landscape photography. Currently based out of Richmond, Virginia, Henley continues to make images of beautiful landscapes but also professionally specializes in architectural photography. Not only is Henley one of the most successful commercial photographers in Richmond, but he is also well received all over the country. In addition to his job as a commercial photographer, Henley also teaches at VCU.

Isaac Harrell
Art Director of Special Publications for Richmond Magazine
http://www.jpgmag.com/people/IsaacH
Isaac Harrell is the Art Director of Special Publications for Richmond Magazine, and also a "semi- professional" photographer. Harrell has worked as an art director for many different agencies around Richmond and occassionally will photographs for them as well. Isaac Harrell describes his own experience with photography as: "when I have something to say, I draw or paint. When I shoot, I try to shut up and listen."

Jeffrey Allison
Paul Mellon Collection Educator, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/
Jeffrey Allison has worked as the Paul Mellon Collection Educator at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts since 1997. As part of his job as the Paul Mellon Collection Educator, Jeffrey travels up and down the east coast giving lectures and on everything from Parisian Art to Manuel Alvarez Bravo. He attended VCU for photography and has continued shooting and selling to this day.

Chip Mitchell
Commercial Photographer, President at American Society of Media Photographers
http://www.chipmitchell.com/
Specializing in lifestyle and portrait photography, Mitchell prefers black and white to color any day. He describes black and white photography as superior because it "eliminates the distraction of color." He also prides himself on being able to tell stories with his pictures, and began as a filmmaker, and managed to teach himself still photography. He is currently the president of the American Society of Media Photographers, an association of photographers who mostly shoot for commerical and publication purposes.

Chris Crumley
Commericial Photographer, American Society of Media Photographers Board Member
http://www.chriscrumley.com
Chris Crumley describes himself as an "under/ over" photographer. This means that he specializes in images that are taken half above water and half over water. His underwater specialty skills allow him to have some pretty unique experiences, including working as an assistant to Annie Leibovitz during a Florida shoot. Crumley began as a computer technician before he transitioned into photography, and because of his prior computer experience excels in digital photography. He is currently working on a mermaid series.

Julie Sanders
Art Director for the Martin Agency
http://www.martinagency.com/
Julie Sanders is the senior art director at the Martin Agency. The Martin Agency is is a renowned advertising firm, ranking #3 in the U.S, and represents companies such as Geico, Hanes, Walmart, Seiko, and many others. Sanders has been working for the Martin Agency for the past 11 years and has worked on many important projects including the Newseum campaign in Washington D.C.

Suntek Chung
VCU sculpture alumni, accomplished artist
http://www.suntekchung.com/

Suntek Chung is an accomplished artist who attended both VCU and Yale University. He currently teaches in the VCU sculpture department, and was recently interviewed by Art in America. Through most sculpture and photography Chung explores the east-west divide by utilizing religious and cultural iconography. Suntek's work is both humerous and intellectual and is steadily climbing further and further into artworld fame.

Ed Pollard
Museum photographer for the Chrysler Museum of Art anhttps://docs.google.com/a/mymail.vcu.edu/Doc?docid=0AVAl9TxJVXAMZGZnZGJicl83ZHNrNjR2Y3M&hl=end art photographer
http://www.chrysler.org/
Ed Pollard graduated from the University of Virginia with an english degree and then moved to New York City where he taught himself photography. In New York he assisted several fine art gallery photographers and got the chance to meet famed artists such as Robert Frank. He moved to Richmond and then to Norfolk, VA where he now resides as the museum's photographer. He continues to make art on an almost daily basis, likens his work to that of the new topographers- but gets most of his artistic inspiration from cinema.

Please comment on the selections so far. These people are free on Wednesday the 21st of April. WEDNESDAY HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED AS THE DAY FOR THE JUROR PANEL REVIEW, MAINLY BECAUSE MOST OF THE ARTISTS AND POSSIBLE JURORS WERE AVAILABLE ON THAT WEDNESDAY APRIL 21ST.

We do have established that we need more artists and gallerists, and are working on getting more.

Edited by: Juror/Exhibition Blog (Kaitlin Vaughan)

Posted by : Michael Archer