AIR Program 2024 – 2025
TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image is pleased to announce the cohort for AIR Program 2024 – 2025! The AIR Program provides support to talented, self-directed, committed artists of all levels who are advancing contemporary photography by incorporating innovative approaches to making in their practice and whose work is aligned with our core values of diversity, equity, accessibility, inclusion, and justice. Participants receive a stipend, access to high-end digital facilities/equipment, a platform to share their work with the public through an open studio/program, and time/space to reflect upon how they want to expand their practice. We hope you have an opportunity to connect with the artists during their residency.
OCTOBER 2024
Will Harris (he/him) is a multimedia artist living in Philadelphia, PA. His work deals with memory, history, identity, time, and place. In 2019 he was a finalist in Photolucida’s Critical Mass and was awarded their MFA Student Scholarship. Harris has exhibited in the USA, India, and Denmark, and in 2015 he had a residency at Arteles Creative Center in Finland. In early 2020 he received a Black Creative Endeavors Grant, awarded by Something Special Studios in New York. His first book, You can call me Nana, was a finalist in the 2021 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards and shortlisted for a Lucie Foundation Photobook Award. It is held in private and public collections worldwide, including The Museum of Modern Art (NY), the George Eastman Museum Library (NY), the Central University for Art History (Munich) and the Gabriela Cendoya Bergareche Collection at San Telmo Museum (Spain).
NOVEMBER 2024
Jewan Goo (he/him) is a research-based photographer who focuses on reexamining and reconstructing the unlearned history of Korea during the Japanese colonial period. His work is deeply connected to contemporary issues within institutional archives and history education, which are often biased and subject to political control or censorship by governmental or educational authorities. Beginning with an exploration of existing archives, he delves into the political apparatus of that era. Through meticulous research, Goo challenges the entrenched power dynamics within traditional historical narratives by utilizing histories that lack photographic evidence but are documented in written records and erased by authorities, creating photographic evidence that offers alternative perspectives and explanations. Goo holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and currently works in Philadelphia.
FEBRUARY 2025
Jesse Egner (he/him) is a queer artist and educator currently based in Brooklyn, New York. He received his BA from Millersville University of Pennsylvania in 2016 and his MFA from Parsons School of Design in 2020. His work has been exhibited and published globally and is included in the permanent collection at the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts. He is a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship recipient and has participated in residencies at the Santa Fe Art Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Bunnell Street Arts Center in Homer, Alaska; Studio Vortex in Arles, France; Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York; and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont. During his residency at TILT, Egner will be editing, sequencing, printing, and framing photographs from his series Unaffixed in preparation for a solo exhibition in June 2025. This series features collaborative, playful, and often humorous and absurd portraits of queer individuals that blend reality and fantasy.
MAY / JUNE 2025
Dorcas Tang 邓佳颖 (she/they) is a third-generation Malaysian-Chinese artist based on unceded Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia). They are interested in the intersections of photography, history, and archival silences. As a daughter of the Chinese diaspora, they center care for their communities while grappling with the intrinsic violence of the camera and archival practices.
They hope their work offers a catalyst for conversation, fermenting open-ended questions and ambiguous truths. During their residency Tang will be working on Love Me Long Time (LMLT, 2021 – ongoing), an audiovisual project that examines overlapping themes of desire, intimacy, and Asian identity through portraits and oral interviews with Asian diasporic women and nonbinary people. They hope to challenge the imbalanced power dynamics between the photographer and subject through holding space for active collaboration, maintaining ongoing dialogue, and renegotiating narrative outcomes. To participate in the project contact Tang @dorcas_tang.
Cass Arrington · Devin Fitchwell · Saint Pinero · Zhidong Zhang
David Cade · Alanna Fields · Renee Maria Osubu · Eduardo L Rivera · Tamara Suber
William Camargo · Giancarlo Montes Santangelo · Tiffany Smith
Lindsay Buchman · Maria Dumlao · Naomieh Jovin · Jay Simple
2018 – 2019
Saleem Ahmed · John Edmonds · Jibade-Khalil Huffman · Amiko Li
2017
Steven Beckly · Paolo Morales · Allison Sexton
2015 – 2016
Andre Bradley · Sebastian Collett
2014
Katrina d’Autremont · Julianna Foster
2013
Chad States · Stefan Abrams
