Starburst, Adlai's Woods, Mettawa IL Photograph - Limited Edition of 10

ALAN TELLER is a second-generation photographer. He studied anthropology at Queens College, C.U.N.Y. and in a Ph.D. program at Indiana University where he also studied photography with Henry Holmes Smith. Alan founded the Inner-City Photo Workshop, a storefront center for high-school students whom the system had failed and directed several photography-in-the-schools projects for the Illinois Arts Council that resulted in the book ‘Photography in the Classroom’. Alan was photographic researcher for the Field Museum and founded Teller Madsen, an exhibit design company creating over 100 exhibits nationwide, including Vivian Maier’s Chicago. He received numerous grants for community photography projects and arts and social issues programs; has published some 20 reviews and articles and delivered over 80 presentations on photographic issues. Alan taught photography at Columbia College, Purdue University and the School of the Art Institute. At Lake Forest College, he offered courses on photography and anthropology, public history and museums and exhibits. Alan’s Illinois Arts Council grant compared representational space in his photographs of women from Niger and portraits of clients of the Kovler Center for Victims of Torture. He received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award for ‘Following the Box,’ based on the discovery of a box of anonymous photos made in India in 1945. That project resulted in a major exhibit that opened in Kolkata, moved to the Indira Gandhi National Ctr. for the Arts in Delhi and then to Chicago’s Loyola University Museum. It was next shown at the University of Southern California’s Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena and recently closed at the Lilley Art Museum of the University of Nevada in Reno. A documentary film on this work has screened internationally. He recently received a grant from the Spencer Foundation for ’50 Years Later’ a project that aims to find some of his former students to see if his photography workshop had any influence on their lives.