Kristin Capp
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Kristin Capp (born 1964) is an American photographer, author and educator. Capp's work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her work is included in collections at the Whitney Museum in New York,[1] the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in Connecticut,[2] the International Center of Photography in New York and the Harvard Art Museum. She was one of sixty international artists selected for the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art in 2017.[3] Her work has appeared in the Bursa International Photofest in Turkey,[4] as well as in Switzerland, France, Belgium, Germany and the United States.
She has published three books of photography: Hutterite: A World of Grace (1998), Americana (2000) and Brasil (2016).[3]
Kristin Capp was born in Portland, Oregon in 1964,[5] and grew up in Seattle, Washington.[3]
Capp studied French and Russian at McGill University, Quebec, Canada where she also enrolled in a photography class.[6] She then lived in New York City, studying analog photography and fine art printing.[3] In 2010, Capp received a Fulbright Fellowship to work on a project title Picturing Communities: A Photographic Documentary of Non-Profits in Rural Namibia: The Application of Digital Photography in Art, Advertising and Personal Documentary.[7]
