Publishers-In-Residence: Alexa Dilworth (Online)

The Griffin Museum of Photography is pleased to welcome Alexa Dilworth for an exclusive series of Online Portfolio Reviews as part of our annual Publishers-In-Residence program.

Our Publishers-in-Residence program offers photographers direct, one-on-one guidance from industry professionals to refine their projects for publication. These sessions provide tailored feedback on sequencing, design, and storytelling, helping artists shape their work into compelling photobooks.

Each review is 25 minutes long and each costs $80 for members and $95 for non-members.All of these professionals are scheduled to conduct six reviews each on: Tuesdays from 10:00 am-1:00 pm EST.

Alexa Dilworth is publishing director and senior editor at the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University, where she also directs the awards program, which includes the CDS Documentary Essay Prize in Writing and Photography and the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, and the DocX lab. In 1995 she was hired by CDS to work on the editorial staff for DoubleTake magazine. She was also hired as editor of the CDS books program at that time and has coordinated the publishing efforts for every CDS book, including the recent and forthcoming books Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial by Jessica Ingram; Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922, edited by Margaret Sartor and Alex Harris; Test of Faith: Signs, Serpents, Salvation: Photographs by Lauren Pond; Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound, Second Edition, edited by John Biewen and Alexa Dilworth; and Aunties: The Seven Summers of Alevtina and Ludmila: Photographs by Nadia Sablin. Dilworth has a BA and an MA, both in English, from the University of Florida, and an MFA in creative writing (poetry) from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.

Click on the names below to visit the reviewers' websites.

April 7 -- Sybylla Smith

April 14 -- Karen Davis

April 21 -- Alexa Becker

May 5 -- Alyssa Ortega Coppelman

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