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Jeff Rich

Photography professor

Education

  • M.F.A., photography, Savannah College of Art and Design
  • B.F.A., video/fim, Savannah College Of Art and Design

Credentials

Academic

  • Professor of photography, 2021–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
  • Associate professor, 2017–21, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC
  • Assistant professor, 2013–17, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
  • Adjunct professor, 2009–13
    eLearning course developer, 2009–13, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

Professional

  • Commission, 2020, Der Spiegel, Hamburg, Germany
  • Commission, 2019, SKDK Environmental Defense Fund, Washington D.C.
  • Commission, 2019, American Giant, San Francisco, CA
  • Commission, 2018, Financial Times Weekend Magazine, London, UK
  • Commission, 2017, The New York Times T Magazine, New York, NY
  • Assignment photographer, 2011–13, The New York Times, New York, NY
  • Assistant operations manager, 2007–13, Photography Dept., Savannah College of Art and Design
  • Assignment photographer, 2012, The Sierra Club, Oakland, CA
  • Videographer and editor, 2012, Lanternfish Media, New York, NY

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Nominated, Prix Pictet, 2015
  • Selection, Midwest Photographers Project, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, 2014
  • Participant, Review Santa Fe, 2014
  • Finalist, John Clarence Laughlin Award, 2013
  • Magenta Flash Forward Emerging Photographer, 2011
  • Winner, Photolucida Critical Mass Book Award, 2010
  • Nominated, John Gutmann Award, 2009
  • Honorable Mention, Blurb Photography Book Now Contest, 2009
  • Outstanding Academic Achievement, Photography Department Savannah College of Art and Design, 2009

Organizations

  • Society for Photographic Education

Publications and presentations

Museum exhibitions

  • Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography Since 1970, Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 2021
  • American Geography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMa), San Francisco, CA, 2020–21
  • Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, LSU Museum of Art, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 2020–21
  • What Does Democracy Looks Like?, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, 2020
  • Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS, 2020
  • Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Hunter American Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN, 2020
  • Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Gregg Museum of Art & Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 2019
  • Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, 2018
  • Land and Lens: Photographers Envision the Environment, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, 2017
  • Land Inhabited and Works of Baldwin Lee - The Do Good Fund, MOCAGA, Atlanta, GA, 2016
  • The New Landscape, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, 2015
  • In Passing: American Landscape Photography, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, 2015
  • Play, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, 2013
  • No Place in Particular: Images of the American Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Jacksonville, FL, 2011

Solo exhibitions

  • The Watershed Project, The University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, 2019
  • The Watershed Project, The SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, 2019
  • Watershed: The Tennessee River, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, 2018
  • Watershed: The Tennessee River, Pensacola State College, Pensacola, FL, 2018
  • Watershed: The Tennessee River, Trois Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA, 2016
  • Watershed: The TVA and The Tennessee River, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN, 2015
  • Watershed, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 2014
  • Watershed, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 2014
  • Watershed, United Photo Industries, Brooklyn, NY, 2013
  • Watershed, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR, 2012
  • Watershed, Pink Dog Creative, Asheville, NC, 2012
  • Watershed, Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, IN, 2012
  • Watershed, Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2012
  • Watershed: The French Broad River, Virginia Interment College, Bristol, VA, 2011
  • Watershed: The French Broad River, Workspace Gallery, Lincoln, NE, 2011
  • Watershed: The French Broad River, Warren Wilson College, Holden Art Gallery, Asheville, NC, 2009
  • Watershed: The French Broad River, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, 2008
  • River of Words and Art/Watershed, Pack Place Community Gallery, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, 2008