Critical Mass 2018 Finalists Announced!

Kaleigh Rusgrove, 2018 MFA Scholarship Recipient

It is an exciting day here at Photolucida! Our Critical Mass pre-screeners have finished their jurying, and have collectively selected the 200 finalists for 2018! Congratulations photographers!

If your name is not on this list this year, know that your work was seen and appreciated by our fabulous pre-screening jury – we know you worked hard on your photographs and we want to encourage you to keep putting it out there and making work that matters to you!

The 2018 Critical Mass finalists are:

Jenn Ackerman

Noah Addis

Ben Altman

Lewis Anderson

Mathew Arnold

Rick Ashley

Jenny Ashley

Tami Bahat

Sue Bailey

Greg Banks
Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo + Andrew Mroczek

Edward Bateman

Lindsey Beal

Patricia A. Bender

Sara Bennett

Laura J. Bennett

Steven Benson

Emily Berl

Anne Bery

Steve Blackwell

Diana Bloomfield

Peter Bogaczewicz

Rachel Boillot

Cody Bratt

Weldon Brewster

Anja Bruehling

Robert Calafiore

Zackary Canepari

Teresa Carnuccio

Sandy Carson

Pelle Cass

Michiko Chiyoda

Barbara Ciurej

Phillip Collier

Susan Copich

Norma Cordova

Melissa Cormican

Scarlett Coten

Harley Cowan

Jennifer Crane

Brian James Culbertson

Sandi Daniel

Robert Dash

Karen Davis

Jason DeMarte

Norm Diamond

Claire Dibble

Virgil DiBiase

Benjamin Dimmitt

Susan Dobson

Barbara Dombach

Yette Marie Dostatni

Sean Du

Cyrille Dubreuil

Natan Dvir

Yorgos Efthymiadis

Jennifer Emerling

Jen Ervin

Argus Paul Estabrook

Heather Evans Smith

Jim Ferguson

Vanessa Filley

Christine Fitzgerald

Doug Fogelson

Fran Forman

Annette Fournet

Amy Friend

Eduardo Fujii

Hal Gage

Jennifer Garza-Cuen

Luther Gerlach

Jean-Marc Giboux
William Glaser

Susan Goldstein

Garrett Grove

Lisa Guerriero

Cat Gwynn

Charlotta Hauksdottir

Pam Heemskerk

Hillerbrand + Magsamen

Susan Hillyard

Jessica Hines

Tama Hochbaum

Janet Holmes

Ryotaro Horiuchi

Sarah Hoskins

Aimée Hoving

Adriene Hughes

Carol Isaak

Megan Jacobs

Diana Nicholette Jeon

Ervin Johnson

Rula Jones Brock

Clay Jordan

Alena Kakhanovich

Jordanna Kalman

Priya Kambli

Vikesh Kapoor

Barbara Karant

Daniel Kariko

Mariah Karson

R.J. Kern

Karen Klinedinst

Oliver Klink

Michael Knapstein

Kent Krugh

Nate Larson

Gloriann Liu

Shiliang Liu

Rhonda Lopez

Melissa Lynn

Sara Macel

Allan Markman

Vanessa Marsh

Lesia Maruschak

Shinya Masuda

Kathryn Mayo

Molly McCall

Alyssa McDonald

Ruairidh McGlynn

Joseph Meacham

Cheryl Medow

Maya Meissner

Bernard Meyers

Julie Mihaly

Vincent Minor

Anya Miroshnichenko

Robert Moran

Lindsay Morris

Rebecca Moseman

Fabian Muir

Jackson Nichols

Dale Niles

Mikael Owunna

Yuri Ozaki

Christos Palios

Laura Parker

May Parlar

Marco Pastori

Barbara Peacock

Tabita Pietsch

Ave Pildas

Michael Scott Pollak

B. Proud

Astrid Reischwitz

PJ Reptilehouse

Adam Reynolds

Jesse Reiser

Paula Riff

Eleonora Ronconi

Ken Rosenthal

Lindsey Ross

Adair Rutledge

Vera Saltzman

John Sanderson

Linda Sandow

Joshua Sariñana

Lynn Saville
Nancy Scherl

Wendi Schneider

Matt Shallenberger

Carla Shapiro

Jennifer Shaw

Geralyn Shukwit

Sara Silks

Kristen Sink

Paul Sisson

Ekaterina Solovieva

Agnieszka Sosnowska

Kate Stanworth
Tamara Staples

Darcie Stemenberg

Laura Stevens

Jamey Stillings

Nadia Stone

Gregory Sullivan

Krista Svalbonas

Sameer Tawde

Paul Taylor

JP Terlizzi

Brandy Trigueros

N.A. Vague

Aaron Vincent Elkaim

Lee W. Bass

Oded Wagenstein

Mark Wainer

Melanie Walker

Brittany Walston

Xinhong Wang

Terri Warpinksi

Charlotte Watts

Noah Webb

Lauren Welles

D’Angelo Williams

DM Witman

Vanessa Woods

Reiko Yagi

Peter Ydeen

Du Yi

Wendy Young

Yelena Zhavoronkova

Michael Zuhorski

And a big congratulations to the faculty-nominated MFA students that were awarded scholarships to Critical Mass this year – Marcella Flury, Kaleigh Rusgrove, Mika Sperling and Martin Wannam.