Sebastian Collett grew up in Ohio and France. Following an early career as a pianist, he fell in love with photography in college, where he studied with Stephen Shore and Larry Fink. Upon graduating he traveled the world for fifteen years, then earned his MFA at the Hartford Art School. He was recently awarded a Source-Cord Prize, a Light Work Grant, and residencies at the Hambidge Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His portfolios have been featured in Vice Magazine, Fraction Magazine, L'Oeil de la Photographie, Feature Shoot, Crusade for Art, The Latent Image, and Darwin Magazine. Sebastian has self-published several books, and is included in the Mossless survey of American photography, "The United States, 2003-2013.” His photographs have been exhibited at Aperture Gallery, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Kominek Gallery, 25CPW Gallery, Project Basho, the Philadelphia Photo Art Center, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and the Houston Center for Photography. Sebastian’s work can be found in private collections, and in the permanent collections of Light Work and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Three Emerging Photographers presents the work of photographers Jiehao Su, Sebastian Collett, and Ayumi Tanaka – winners of the inaugural Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Contest.
© Jiehao Su – Borderland
An esteemed jury (convened by Feature Shoot) chose Jiehao Su’s Borderland to receive the Grand Prize; Sebastian Collett was selected for his Vanishing Point series, and Ayumi Tanaka was chosen for her series Wish You Were Here.
The three exhibiting photographers were chosen from over 2,000 submitted entries from all over the world. Each photographer will be presenting 10 works from their selected projects.
We hope you will join us to celebrate the opening of the exhibition with our Feature Shoot Friends on Thursday March 5, from 6-9PM - United Photo Industries Gallery (111 F...