Lely Constantinople '89 Visiting Artist on Oct. 12
NCS alumna Lely Constantinople, a photographer and freelance photo-archivist, will speak and hold workshop sessions with students on Oct. 12.
NCS alumna Lely Constantinople, a photographer and freelance photo-archivist, will speak and hold workshop sessions with students on Oct. 12.
Her photographs are on display in Hearst Hall and in Scott Hall’s Gray Gallery throughout October. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally for over 15 years; her work centers on street life in mostly urban areas and can be found in numerous private collections, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
In recent years she has worked as the director of several photographic archives including: a collection of over 15,000 photographs of National Geographic’s Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis: the collection of David Fenton, an archive of 400 images of the late 1960s counterculture: The Volkmar K. Wentzel Collection, an archive of over 12,000 negatives and prints of the late National Geographic photographer; and the collection of Lucian Perkins, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for the Washington Post. She has also edited several books, most recently SHOTS: An American Photographer's Journal 1967-72 by David Fenton (2005), and is currently co-editing HARD ART: Washington, D.C., 1979, photographs of the early D.C. punk rock scene by Lucian Perkins, with curator/gallerist Jayme McClellan of Civilian Art Projects and text by Alec MacKaye. She has curated several exhibitions, most recently, “SHOTS: David Fenton Photographs”, at In Camera Galerie, Paris, France (2009), and “Eye of the Revolution: Photographs by David Fenton 1967-71” with Steven Kasher of Steven Kasher Gallery, New York City.
After graduating from NCS in 1989, she attended Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and two daughters.
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Her photographs are on display in Hearst Hall and in Scott Hall’s Gray Gallery throughout October. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally for over 15 years; her work centers on street life in mostly urban areas and can be found in numerous private collections, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
In recent years she has worked as the director of several photographic archives including: a collection of over 15,000 photographs of National Geographic’s Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis: the collection of David Fenton, an archive of 400 images of the late 1960s counterculture: The Volkmar K. Wentzel Collection, an archive of over 12,000 negatives and prints of the late National Geographic photographer; and the collection of Lucian Perkins, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for the Washington Post. She has also edited several books, most recently SHOTS: An American Photographer's Journal 1967-72 by David Fenton (2005), and is currently co-editing HARD ART: Washington, D.C., 1979, photographs of the early D.C. punk rock scene by Lucian Perkins, with curator/gallerist Jayme McClellan of Civilian Art Projects and text by Alec MacKaye. She has curated several exhibitions, most recently, “SHOTS: David Fenton Photographs”, at In Camera Galerie, Paris, France (2009), and “Eye of the Revolution: Photographs by David Fenton 1967-71” with Steven Kasher of Steven Kasher Gallery, New York City.
After graduating from NCS in 1989, she attended Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and two daughters.
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"Mexico" by Lely Constantinople '89.
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