Kristen Joy Emack
Cousins
Apr 6 - 29, 2023
I’ve been photographing my daughter and nieces for a decade. There’s something sacred about the lives of girls, and their innocent, confident relationships to themselves, their world and one another is gravitational. Between them is an intimate and spiritual knowledge, both ordinary and extraordinary, and I aim to capture the brilliance of their communion. I hope when they look back on this work, they’ll see their beauty, and their devotion to each other, and find themselves here, in this work we made together, reflected with love.
Kristen Joy Emack (American, she/her/hers) is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow and a Massachusetts Cultural Arts Fellow. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, in galleries and photo festivals. She has been published in several magazines, including Vogue Italia. She has been a guest speaker at multiple universities including Harvard and Hofstra, and her work is in multiple private collections here, and abroad.
Kristen is a self taught photographer and works as a public school educator who lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston.