Artist and publisher Drew Leventhal will present on his photographic work, including his publishing practice and research into emerging theories of visual ethnography. Q&A to follow.

Drew Leventhal ’17 is an artist and publisher based in Providence, Rhode Island. He has won and been a finalist for numerous prestigious awards including the Lenscratch Student Prize, the Aperture Portfolio Prize, the PhMuseum Grant, and the Film Photo Award. As a publisher of other people’s work, Drew has produced three acclaimed photography books, most recently Owen McCarter’s The Three Eyed Fish. He is an emerging expert on the ways photography and photo books can act as forms of visual ethnography.

Drew graduated from Vassar College with a Bachelors in Visual Anthropology and received his MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design.

PHOCUS is Vassar’s only student photography organization. The PHOCUS Guest Lecture Series is made possible by the generosity of Andrea Baldeck ’72.

This lecture is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by PHOCUS and the Office of Campus Activities.