Photolucida's Critical Mass Top 50

River's Edge, Hudson, New York, 2017

Upstate was selected for Photolucida's Critical Mass 2017 Top 50.

San Francisco Camerawork Benefit Auction

Rear Bedroom, Oliver Bronson House, Hudson, New York, 2016

I’ve donated a print of Rear Bedroom, Oliver Bronson House to the San Francisco Camerawork Benefit Auction taking place this Saturday, October 28 with bidding at 6pm.  The Oliver Bronson House was first built for Samuel Plumb in 1812 and is registered as a historic landmark and managed by Historic Hudson who gave me access to the house in Fall 2016.  Tickets to the auction and a full catalog of works are available on SF Camerawork’s website. 

2017 FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art at the Reece Museum at ETSU

Cathy, Market Street, Paterson, New Jersey, 2011

Brandi, Straight Street, Paterson, New Jersey, 2012

Cathy, Market Street, 2011 and Brandi, Straight Street, 2012 from PATERSON are included in the 2017 FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art juried by Canadian artist and illustrator Anita Kunz at the Reece Museum at East Tennessee State University. This group show of work by international artists investigating societal and political concerns through various media is on view from October 9 - December 15. Juror Anita Kunz will be visiting ETSU for a week for the reception on Thursday, October 26 and meetings & critiques with students and faculty. In its fifth year, this annual juried exhibition was established by Barbara and Wayne Dyer to honor the memory of their son Fletcher, who passed away in 2009 in a motorcycle accident, and his passion for commentary and activism through art. 

10th Julia Margaret Cameron Award International Photography Exhibition opens October 3rd in Barcelona

Yellow House, Germantown, New York, 2016

Yellow House was a runner-up in the Landscapes Category for this year's Julia Margaret Cameron Award.  The 10th JMCA International Photography Exhibition of work by finalists opens on Tuesday, October 3rd with a reception on Thursday, October 5th at Galeria Valid Foto in Barcelona, Spain. Curator Analy Werbin and Exhibition Director Julio Hirsch-Hardy speculate that this group show, featuring 171 photographs by 77 artists, will be the largest exhibition of work by women photographers ever.

Portfolio Showcase 10 Exhibition with Juror Hannah Frieser opens September 29th at the C4FAP

Union Street, Hudson, New York, 2016

White Car, Hudson, New York, 2016

Portfolio ShowCase 10 opens Friday, September 29th at the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO including selections from Upstate chosen by juror Hannah Frieser, Director of the Center for Photography at Woodstock.

Hannah Frieser writes: Photography buildings can take many forms. Architectural photographers, for example, take excruciating care to right every angle and present every building in  its bare architectural facts.  In Tema Stauffer's images, however, buildings are never just buildings.  Instead they speak of years past and lives lived in them. The resulting images covey a strong sense of community. Stauffer further emphasizes community with portraits she interlaces into the series.  Many images are bathed in the rich light so familiar to Upstate New Yorkers, adding gravitas to the buildings' place in people's lives. As the backbone of neighborhoods, these buildings are here now, but is is clear as the light fades and the facades crumble that things are changing and that neither building nor people might not be here much longer.

I will be traveling to Fort Collins for the reception on Friday, October 20th from 5:30 - 7:30pm and portfolio reviews with Hannah Frieser and Hamidah Glasgow the following day.

23rd Griffin Museum Juried Exhibition and Boston Globe review

Fugary Fishing Shacks, Hudson, New York, Winter 3016

Fugary Fishing Shacks received an honorable mention from juror Hamidah Glasgow in the 23rd Griffin Museum Juried Exhibition opening July 13th.  The photograph was featured in a photography review by Mark Feeney for the Boston Globe:  "Most of the images are in color. Tema Stauffer’s understated use of it, in “Fishing Shacks, Hudson, New York,” is especially impressive, underscoring the sense of stillness in the scene. They’re cousin to Catherine Opie’s icehouses. That is high praise."

Read the full article: At the Griffin, a juried show and photographs that perform 

Jean Françoise Leblanc: Revisiting Montreal’s Backstage at the End of a Century

My article about French Canadian photographer Jean-Françoise Leblanc's recent exhibition at Maison de la culture Côtes-des-Neiges in Montreal was published on Ciel variable's website: Revisiting Montreal's Backstage at the End of a Century

FOTOFILMIC17's Spring Shortlist

Fugary Fishing Shacks, Hudson, NY, 2016

Selections from my current series Upstate are featured on FotoFilmic17's Spring Shortlist of 30 Winners: FotoFilmic / Portfolio / Tema Stauffer  

Radar Poetry Issue 14

Yellow House, Germantown, New York, 2016

Yellow House, Germantown, New York is published in Radar Poetry's Issue 14 with Outside of Hamelin by Hannah Lee Jones.

American Stills series published in March issue of Korean photography magazine PhotoDot

Upstate series at Sasha Wolf Projects

River's Edge, Hudson, NY, 2017

Selections from Upstate are on Sasha Wolf Project's website: Tema Stauffer / Upstate 

Context 2017 at Filter Space

White Car, Hudson, New York, 2016

White Car, Hudson, New York has been selected by juror Natasha Egan for inclusion in Context 2017 opening at Filter Space in Chicago on March 3rd.

Radar Poetry Issue 13

JANUARY 2017. Cover Art: I'll Never Let You Go (Ship I) by Carrie DeBacker

White Car, Hudson, New York accompanies Kelly Cressio-Moeller's American Landscape with Chalk Outlines published in Radar Poetry's Issue 13.

Visiting Artist Talk at Concordia University / Mitch Epstein / January 12th

Portofolio ShowCase 10 at C4FAP

Peter, Hudson, NY, 2016

A selection of images from Upstate was chosen by juror Hannah Frieser for an upcoming group an exhibition at the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado.  Portfolio ShowCase 10 opens in Fall 2017 with a reception on October 20th.