Photography

Model: Morgan Barbour
I work in digital photography, generally in projects that take the form of a narrative series. Many of my photography projects also include a text component and are presented in book or video form, or in collaboration with a writer for pieces published in Quail Bell Magazine.  I take the vast majority of promotional photos for my performance and film projects, as well.
From my "Regaining" series (2023 edit)
While an undergraduate at VCUarts, I won a national emerging artist grant in photography from the Puffin Foundation, which set me on the path to pursue my own fine art photography projects. I went on to earn an MFA in Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice from The City College of New York-CUNY. During my MFA, I was funded for an artist residency in photography, video, and writing at Laberinto Projects in El Salvador. Many of my grad school projects were photo-based and realized with the support of grants, scholarships, and residencies. At this time, I'm working on Fathers of Brooklyn and other projects.
I am the author of the photography collections Hello, New York—The Living and Dead and Utica Avenue and Beyond, as well as Force Fed, a book of letters, photographs, and napkin poems. Here are links to my photography and poetry books:

• Heaven is a Photograph (CLASH Books) - read the featured interview in the Portland Review here.
• Belladonna Magic (Shanti Arts)
• Water for the Cactus Woman (Spuyten Duyvil)

I also took the photographs for the book Agora by Gretchen Gales (published July 2023).
Here are some of the museums and galleries that have recently exhibited my photography (physically or virtually):

• Southern Allegheny Museum of Art (Altoona, PA)
• Atlantic Gallery (New York, NY)
• Howard County Center for the Arts (Ellicott City, MD)
• Elisabet Ney Museum (Austin, TX) 
​• The Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.)
• New Britain Museum for American Art (New Britain, CT)
• FiveMyles Gallery (Brooklyn, NY)
• New York Transit Museum (Brooklyn, NY)
• Maritime Museum (Garibaldi, OR)
Here are some links to short published photography work:
I also take and edit photos and direct photo shoots for clients, with a specialization in creative photo collages and illustrations. View sample galleries of "Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares" at the Gene Frankel Theatre, actor Aaron Gold, and "The Hard Knock Lyfe" at Theater Row.
The above photograph comes from my novelette, Naomi & The Reckoning, for which I did the cover and interior artwork.

​Please note that bylines published in 2019 bear the name Christine Sloan Stoddard; prior to 2019, my author/artist name was Christine Stoddard. ​From 2022 onward, I am returning to using Christine Stoddard.