The 50 States Project has brought together 50 photographers from across the USA.

Each photographer lives in one of the 50 States and during the year long project each photographer will represent the State where they currently live. Every two months each photographer will be sent an assignment by e-mail, they then have two months to produce one image in response. The images must represent both their style and their State. Read more at www.50statesproject.net

“I was born in 1987 and raised in Southern Ohio; I am currently living, working, and making art in Denver, Colorado.”

“I create photographs in regard to personal, environmental, and social landscapes. I make photographs to understand, with clarity, the conditions in which we are surrounded. I am attracted to moments in which many and even opposing concepts coexist. My work is a way exploring life’s complexities through the medium of photography.”

“I moved to Colorado in April 2008 after spending the majority of my life living in Ohio.” Read more at www.50statesproject.net

“In addition to my Ocean work, I have worked on a number of other projects. During the mid-eighties, I documented the Hansens Disease (Leprosy) settlement of Kalaupapa, on the Island of Molokai. This work culminated in a book “Kalaupapa a Portrait”, published in 1989, documenting this historic settlements later days. In recent years I have continued to photograph Kalaupapa as the last patients disappear, and the settlement transforms into a National Historic Park.” Read more at www.50statesproject.net

“Photography has the remarkable power to impress into our memory a distillation of a particular segment of time. Carefully chosen words can describe a situation, but the photograph has a direct line to our soul. The desire to hold memories of how a moment looks, smells, and feels, led me to be a photographer.”

“I grew up on a farm in south-central Kansas. Describing it as subtle is something of an understatement. During my childhood I learned to observe very carefully and saw beauty in those long, flat, monotonous fields. I have photographed in many places, but my point of reference is always formed by the empty, minimalist Kansas landscape of my youth.” Read more at www.50statesproject.net