Bio
Gregory Halpern, an American photographer, has dedicated his career to exploring the elusive concept of Americanness. Renowned for his innovative photobooks, recent publications such as ZZYZX and Omaha Sketchbook exemplify Halpern's lyrical and poetic investigations into place. Born in 1977 in New York State, Halpern earned a BA in History and Literature from Harvard University in 1999 and an MFA from California College of the Arts, San Francisco in 2004. His other notable books include A (2001), Harvard Works Because We Do (2003), East of the Sun, West of the Moon (2014) in collaboration with Ahndraya Parlato, Confederate Moons (2018), and Let The Sun Beheaded Be (2020). In 2014, Halpern received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and ZZYZX was awarded Photobook of the Year at the Paris. He currently serves as a professor of photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.
Gregory Halpern
