AOL ’25 for 25′ winner got early start at Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
In 2010, Tema Stauffer was awarded an AOL “25 for 25” Grant of $25,000 for innovation in the arts. The Kalamazoo native is a photographer based in Brooklyn, N.Y., whose work has been exhibited at Jen Bekman Gallery and Daniel Cooney Fine Art Gallery in New York, as well as galleries and institutions both nationally and internationally.
She tells Simon Thalmann of MLive.com that she got her start at age 5 in an art class at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. When she visits her parents in Kalamazoo, she still drive around town and take pictures.
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I fell in love with photography at once. I loved the quiet and mysterious atmosphere of the darkroom and I loved driving around Kalamazoo looking for subjects — old buildings, friends and strangers, people at the Rex Café and in the launderette across the street. Photography awakened a sense of adventure and a means of visual storytelling.
To find out about how she chooses her subjects, please read the rest of the story.
Source: MLive.com
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