AboutJoanne Dugan is a New York City-based photographer and visual artist who explores the intersections between analog photography, painting, sculpture and mindfulness. She is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography. Her work focuses on photography as a physical medium and on seeing as a dynamic, cognitive process that connects people through shared viewing experiences. Dugan’s one-of-a-kind images, collages and sculptures are made from Cyanotype, Silver Gelatin and other traditional light-sensitive photographic materials and are Informed by Buddhist principles and ongoing mindfulness meditation practices.BioJoanne Dugan is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography. Her work has been exhibited in the US, UK, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and Japan. Publications include The New York Times T Magazine, the Harvard Review, Unseen and Photograph magazines, among others. She was recently awarded residencies at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Peaked Hill Trust and the Abbott Watts Residency for Photography and was a finalist for the Meijberg Art Prize at Unseen Amsterdam. Dugan’s writing and images are published in seven books. The limited-edition monograph Mostly True is in the permanent library collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the New York Public Library and the George Eastman House. She has been editor and creative director for many artists’ published books and is the founder of The Creative Current, an ongoing lecture series that explores artistic mindfulness. She is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography in New York City, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA and the Los Angeles Center of Photography, and has lectured at institutions throughout the US and abroad. Dugan lives and works in New York City.