Yola Monakhov Stockton was born in Moscow and raised in New York City. Her photography has been published by The New Yorker, Harper’s, Le Monde, Marie Claire, Newsweek, The New York Times, Der Stern, and TIME. She has also taught at Columbia University, the International Center of Photography, LaGuardia Community College, Pace University, and as full-time faculty at Smith College. Her work is in the permanent collections of the George Eastman Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Smith College Museum of Art, JP Morgan Chase, and Fidelity Investments. Her first monograph, The Nature of Imitation, came out with Schilt Publishing in 2015. Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions at the Alice Austen House, George Eastman Museum, Light Field Festival, Sasha Wolf Gallery, and Tianshui Photography Festival, and is represented by Rick Wester Fine Art and Schilt Publishing Gallery. As of 2016, she is Assistant Professor in Photography at SUNY Buffalo State College, and lives in Buffalo with her husband and two sons.
The Future Perfect brings together work from the last five years of students who graduated from three programs at the International Center of Photography: General Studies, Documentary Practice & Visual Journalism, and the MFA.
Learn MorePanelists will discuss the role of higher education in contemporary photography. How does the photographic practice relate to visual arts, literature, film, and journalism? How do educators keep up with technological developments? How does social media activism interact with photography education? What are some of the approaches to different techniques and materials? What role does photographic history and tradition play in today’s classroom? Special thanks to Rick Schatzberg for conceiving this panel.
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