Introduction
AARON SCHUMAN is an American photographer, writer, editor, lecturer and curator based in the United Kingdom. He received a B.F.A. in Photography and History of Art from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1999, and a Masters in Humanities and Cultural Studies, from the University of London’s London Consortium in 2003. Schuman exhibits his photographic work internationally - most recently at Flowers Gallery (’Uncommon Ground’, London, 2012) - and regularly contributes photography, articles, essays and interviews to a number of publications including Aperture, FOAM, Photoworks, ArtReview, Modern Painters, 1000Words, HotShoe International, The British Journal of Photography, and more; he has also recently contributed writings to several books, including 'Pieter Hugo: This Must Be the Place' (Prestel, 2012), 'The Photographs Not Taken' (Daylight, 2012), 'Hijacked 3' (Big City Press, 2012), and Melinda Gibson’s 'The Photograph as Contemporary Art' (2012). In 2010, Schuman was invited to curate one of four principal exhibitions at the Fotofest Biennial - his exhibition, ‘Whatever Was Splendid: New American Photographs’, centered on the underlying legacy of Walker Evans's American Photographs within contemporary American photographic practice. In 2011, he curated ‘Other I: Alec Soth, WassinkLundgren, Viviane Sassen’ (Hotshoe Gallery, London, Oct./Nov. 2011). And in 2012, he curated ‘In Appropriation’ (Houston Center of Photography, Houston, Sept./Oct. 2012). Schuman is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton and the Arts University College at Bournemouth. He is also the founder and editor of SeeSaw Magazine (www.seesawmagazine.com). For more information, please visit: www.aaronschuman.com