Critical Mass 2020 – Finalists Announced!

It’s one of our favorite days of the entire year – the prescreening jurors have finished their voting and the results are in! We are pleased to announce the finalists for this year’s Critical Mass! The 200 finalists will go on to have their work juried by the full panel of 200 jurors. The Top 50 photographers will be announced to great fanfare in mid-September. Stay tuned for updates about the Top 50 and the Critical Mass awards.

Thank you to all who entered Critical Mass this year! We had a record number of entries this year, leaving our prescreening jurors with a challanging task! It seems like a lot of you have spent the uncertainty of this time in our shared history creating new work about your current reality or by revisiting and strengthening older work. We know you put a great deal of passion and dedication into your photography and it was a pleasure to see such a diverse selection of wonderful and thought-provoking images from all over the world. Without further ado – the finalists are:

Rochelle Marie Adam

Seb Agnew

Alanna Airitam

Hannah Altman

Dirk Anschutz

Noriko Aoyama

Debe Arlook

Matthew Arnold

Rachael Banks

Becky Behar

Ute Behrend

Patricia A. Bender

Anne Berry

Guia Besana

Lois Bielefeld

Madeline Bishop

Marina Black

Cody Bratt

Steven Brock

Rachel Louise Brown

Casey Lance Brown

Jennifer Bucheit

Rachel Bujalski

Gary Burnley

David Cade

Alana Celii

Jo Ann Chaus

Diana Cheren Nygren

Adam Chin

Goseong Choi

Kathleen Clark

Jasmine Clarke

Cheryl Clegg

Deana Collins

Cathy Cone

Norma Córdova

Scarlett Coten

Tara Cronin

Lisa Cutler

Lee Day

Yolanda Del Amo

Marcus Desieno

Leah Diament

Norm Diamond

Barbara Diener

Alexandra Diez De Rivera

Annick Donkers

Felice Douglas

Damien Drew

Aristide Economopoulos

Christina Edmonds

Carol Erb

Harlan Erskine

Peter Essick

Rich-Joseph Facun

Andrew Feiler

Kevin Fletcher

Marina Font

Mark Forbes

Travon Free

David Freese

Julia Fullerton-Batten

Ebenezer Galluzzo

Jacques Gautreau

Erika Gentry + Sean Black

Daniel George

Jennifer Georgescu

Julie Glassberg

Steve Goldband + Ellen Konar

Daniel Gonçalves

Roei Greenberg

Anna Grevenitis

Photographer Hal

Rob Hammer

Alice Hargrave

Barbara Hazen

Oyvind Hjelmen

Bootsy Holler

Ryotaro Horiuchi

Sarah Hoskins

Letitia Huckaby

Adriene Hughes

Evan Hume

Stephan Jahanshahi

Rose Jerome

Ervin Johnson

Michael Joseph

Gregory Jundanian

Brendon Kahn

Jordanna Kalman

Vikesh Kapoor

Barbara Karant

Selena Kearney

Forest Kelley

Tira Khan

Takako Kido

Tom Kiefer

Jenny Kim

Heidi Kirkpatrick

Sandra Klein

Eric Kunsman

Nate Larson

James Lattanzio

Ted Lau

J. K. Lavin

Serge Levy

Elizabeth Libert

Amanda Lopez

Holly Lynton

Sarah Malakoff

Vanessa Marsh

Lesia Maruschak

Andy Mattern

Molly Mccall

Lea Meienberg

Marisol Mendez

Michael Mergen

Peter Merts

Margaret Mitchell

Fred Mitchell

Emily Hanako Momohara

Kevin Moore

Rebecca Moseman

Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay

Alan Nakkash

Leah Nash + Christopher Onstott

Dan Nelken

Lee Nelson

Bob Newman

Nancy Nicols

Faith Ninivaggi

George Nobechi

Emeke Obanor

David Pace

Christos Palios

Marcy Palmer

Mark Parascandola

Sirous Partovi

Stephen Petegorsky

Mark Peterman

Shaun Pierson

Walter Plotnick

Austin Pope

Betty Press

B. Proud

David Pruden

Andre Ramos-Woodard

Jennifer Ray

Shawn Records

Astrid Reischwitz

Suzanne Revy

Daniela Rivera Antara

Selina Roman

Susan Rosenberg Jones

Nassima Rothacker

Meg Roussos

Joe Rubino

Claudia Ruiz Gustafson

John Sanderson

Miranda Schmitz

Wendi Schneider

Kennady Schneider

Ben Schonberger

Sam Scoggins

Safi Alia Shabaik

Stephen Sheffield

Agnieszka Sosnowska

David Steinberg

Mirjam Stenevik

Zachary Stephens

Simone Strijk

James Stukenberg

Riel Sturchio

Amrita Stützle

Dawn Surratt

Krista Svalbonas

Daisuke Takakura

Jerry Takigawa

Tokie Taylor

Rashod Taylor

Hugo Teixeira

Mirja Maria Thiel

Andrew K. Thompson

Amanda Tinker

Brandy Trigueros

Ada Trillo

Aaron Turner

Kelda Van Patten

Kristina Varaksina

Pep Ventosa

Erin Harper Vernon

Melanie Walker

Ge Wang

Arin Yoon

Shigeru Yoshida

Rana Young

Qiyong Yu

Tariq Zaidi

Alena Zhandarova

Chiara Zonca

Ion Zupcu

And congratulations to the twelve fantastic MFA students who were awarded scholarships to Critical Mass this year: Granville Carroll, Kevin Claiborne, Karen Dias, Erick Jonathan Guzman, Dylan Hausthor, Mathew Jessie, Dawn Kim, Cassandra Klos, Epiphany Knedler, Lindley Warren Mickunas, Alex Turner, and Will Warasilla. All 12 photographers will also go on to be juried in the finalist round!