John Edmonds

Untitled II

John Edmonds, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, USA. (2014 competition)

American, born 1989
Untitled II
2012 (negative); 2014 (print)
Pigment print; edition of 15
From the series Immaculate

John Edmonds lives and works in the Washington, D.C. area. He received his BFA in photography from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, where he is currently a teaching assistant. He is the founder of About-Face, an online gallery featuring early, emerging, and mid-career artists working in portraiture.

Edmonds’s makes lush, intimate photographs of men from his own community, in which he confronts prevailing ideas about race, masculinity, class, and sexuality. “These portraits explore and examine the internal and external violence that is implicated through the bodies of men on the margins of society,” Edmonds says. “I am interested in these subjects as icons of ideal beauty, love, and desire.”

Edmonds’s work has been on view in Washington, D.C.; Annapolis, Maryland; and Paris, France, as well as in China at the 2012 Pingyao International Photography Festival. In 2012, he held a residency at Fabrica, the United Colors of Benetton Research Center, in Treviso, Italy. This summer, Edmonds will attend the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. He was recently accepted to Yale University School of Art’s MFA photography program.

The response to the competition each year has been exciting and brought many talented photographers’ work to the attention of the Museum’s curatorial staff. With the competition, we have added work of twelve very talented arts both experienced and emerging. Limited edition prints of this photograph are available at a cost of $600.

For more information contact:: Photography Portfolio Competition; The Women’s Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; P.O. Box 7646; Philadelphia, Pa 19101-7646; E-mail: twcpma@philamuseum.org; Telephone: 215-684-7936