Karen Marshall, chair of the Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Program is a documentary photographer whose work focuses on the psychological lives of her subjects within the social landscape. Her seminal project Between Girls, that articulates the coming of age of a group of urban middle class teenagers, following them from high school into adulthood 30 years later was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2021. Her photographs have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, the London Sunday Times, CNN, The Atlantic, ID Vice, Buzzfeed, Konbini Arts, Juxtapoz, Photobook Journal, NPR Picture Show, Blind, New York Magazine, and GUP Magazine, among others. She has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the United States, Germany, Austria, Canada, Israel, the Philippines, China and Colombia. Marshall is the recipient of artist fellowships and sponsorships through the New York Foundation for The Arts, as well as grants and support from private foundations. Nominated for a Prix Picet in 2011, her work is part of several collections including the Feminist Artbase at the Brooklyn Museum. Marshall has been faculty at ICP for over two decades, is an Associate professor (adjunct) at New York University, guest faculty in the MFA program at the Maine Media College and has taught numerous workshops internationally that focus on visual storytelling.



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