In Our Masthead: Tema Stauffer

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Tema Stauffer, Ward Bond, “Wagon Train”, Hollywood, CA, April 2007

Artist Biography

Tema Stauffer is a photographer based in Brooklyn. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1995 and received a MFA in Photography from The University of Illinois at Chicago in 1998. Her work has been shown in galleries and art institutions in Chicago, Minneapolis, San Diego, Philadelphia, New York City and Rouchechoart, France. Her solo exhibition “American Stills” was shown at Jen Bekman Gallery in 2004, where she has also participated in seven group shows. The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College selected fifteen images from this body of work for their Midwest Photographers Project. Tema has been featured twice on 20×200, (here and here), and she teaches at The School of the International Center of Photography.

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MoMA.org | Film Exhibitions | 2008 | The Bourne Trilogy and An Evening with Doug Liman and James Schamus

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