• About the juror

    Stephen Chalmers has worked as a Lead Treatment Counselor to Severely Emotionally Disturbed children, worked as an Emergency Medical Technician, and taught gang children photography - informing his projects which deal with issues of loss. Chalmers has taught many workshops in alternative photographic processes and digital imaging, and been a visiting artist at numerous colleges and universities. He has also been a contributor to four books, and has been in group and solo exhibitions throughout the US and also in Australia, Ireland, British Columbia, England, South Africa, and China. Stephen Chalmers earned his MFA in Cinema and Photography from Southern Illinois University, and was professor of Photography and Digital Media in the state of Washington for eight years. The work of Stephen Chalmers is in several collections including the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), Lightwork, Polaroid, and the Getty Research Institute.