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  Elizabeth Fleming (“Sibling Rivalry”) is a photographer and social justice researcher who lives with her husband and two daughters in Maplewood, New Jersey. She received a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis, an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, and an MA in sociology from Columbia University. www.elizabethfleming.com.

  Catherine Gass (“Vulnerability”) is an adjunct assistant professor of photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as the photographer for the Newberry Library. www.catherinegass.com.

  Hans Gindlesberger (“Angst”) lives and works in upstate New York. His projects, spanning photography, video, installation, and new media, have been exhibited at Galleri Image (Aarhus, Denmark); the Mt. Rokko International Photography Festival (Kobe, Japan); the Voies Off Festival (Arles, France); and FILE Media Art (São Paulo, Brazil). He has lectured nationally and internationally. Recently, his work has been published in Diffusion, LensCulture, and the Flash Forward Tenth anthology, published by the Magenta Foundation. www.gindlesberger.com.

  Jonathan Gitelson (“Whatever”) lives in Brattleboro, Vermont, and is an associate professor of art at Keene State College in New Hampshire. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collection of institutions including the Museum of Modern Art; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. www.thegit.net.

  Andres Gonzalez (“Adolescence,” “Questions, Nagging”) is a photographer, educator, and editor based in Vallejo, California. He has won awards from Photo District News and the Alexia Foundation and is a Fulbright Fellow. In 2012 he published his first monograph, Some(W)Here, to wide acclaim. www.andresgonzalezphoto.com.

  Maury Gortemiller (“Habits, Bad,” “Midlife Crisis”) is an Atlanta-based photographer and educator. His work has appeared in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and the Aperture Foundation Gallery in New York. He also writes on photography and contemporary art issues, most recently in Art Papers, Perdiz Magazine, and The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (University Press of Mississippi). www.maurygortemiller.com.

  Jennifer Greenburg (“Resignation”) is an associate professor at Indiana University Northwest. She has an MFA from the University of Chicago and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited nationally and abroad, and solo exhibitions have been held at the Hyde Park Art Center and the Print Center, among other places. Her work is in the permanent collections of Light Work, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Museum of Photographic Arts. Her monograph, The Rockabillies, was published in 2009. www.jennifergreenburg.com.

  Ben Huff (“Integrity”) is a photographer based in Juneau, Alaska. His book, The Last Road North, was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2015. He’s currently working on a long-term project on the Aleutian Island of Adak and chasing smaller stories in the north. www.huffphoto.com.

  Christy Karpinski (“Phase”) was born and raised in Arizona. She currently teaches at Columbia College Chicago. www.christykarpinski.com.

  Mickey Kerr (“Tradition”), born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, is a commercial and fine-art photographer based in New York City. His work has been published and exhibited widely, including in a solo show at M.Y. Art Prospects gallery and in FlakPhoto’s 100 Portraits. A graduate of the International Center of Photography, where he was a Sandy Luger fellow, he currently lives with his wife and daughter in Upper Manhattan. www.mickeykerr.com.

  Liz Kuball (“Entertainment”) is an editorial and commercial photographer based in Los Angeles. Her clients include Dwell, Condé Nast Traveler, The New York Times, Monocle, Ace Hotel, and Medium. Her fine-art work appeared in The Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography and has been exhibited across the United States and editioned through 20x200. www.lizkuball.com.

  Michael Kwiecinski (“Adulthood”) studied photography in New York City and now lives and works in Southern California. www.wondertribe.co.

  Shane Lavalette (“Freedom,” “Moment of Clarity”) is a photographer, the publisher-editor of Lavalette, and the director of Light Work, a nonprofit photography organization in Syracuse, New York. www.shanelavalette.com.

  Jason Lazarus (“Rebellion”) is a Florida-based artist, curator, educator, and writer. Recent major exhibitions include solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Andrew Rafacz Gallery as well as Black Is, Black Ain’t at the Renaissance Society, About Time at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Michael Jackson Doesn’t Quit, Part 3 at the Future Gallery, Berlin. Monographs on his work have been published by Light Work, SF Camerawork, and Illinois State University. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of South Florida. www.jasonlazarus.com.

  Stacy Arezou Mehrfar (“Infidelity”) has had work exhibited in the United States, Australia, Poland, and Germany, and her photographs are held in numerous public and private collections worldwide. Her first monograph, Tall Poppy Syndrome, was published by Decode Books, Seattle, in 2012. After living in glorious Sydney, Australia, for eight years, Stacy returned to her beloved New York City in 2016. www.stacymehrfar.com.

  Nick Meyer (“Tantrum”) lives and works in western Massachusetts. His first monograph, Pattern Language, was published in 2010 by Brick Publishing and his second monograph is forthcoming from Daylight Books in 2017. www.nickmeyerphoto.net.

  Matt Nighswander (“Commitment”) is a photographer and photo editor living in Brooklyn. He holds an MFA from Columbia College Chicago and has had solo exhibitions at Pictura Gallery in Bloomington, Indiana, and the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Adbusters, and the British Journal of Photography, and online at Time.com and the DailyMail.com. He is patiently waiting for the public to demand the reunion of his postcollege band. www.mattnighswander.com.

  Alexis Pike (“Sacrifice”) is a sixth-generation Idahoan calling on the geography of her genes for inspiration. She currently lives in Bozeman, Montana, and is an associate professor at Montana State University. Her photography has appeared in Harper’s Magazine and Wired. She has also been a Top 50 finalist for Critical Mass and has exhibited in the public art installation The FENCE and at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon, which published a monograph of her work. www.alexispike.com.

  Colleen Plumb (“Holiday”) makes photographs and video and teaches at Columbia College Chicago. Her first monograph, Animals Are Outside Today, was published by Radius Books. She lives in Chicago with her husband and two daughters. www.colleenplumb.com.

  Gus Powell (“Love,” “Rumor”) is a photographer and artist based in New York City. His monographs include The Company of Strangers and The Lonely Ones. www.guspowell.com.

  Abby Powell-Thompson (“Innocence”) is a film photographer residing in the Puget Sound area of Washington.

  J. K. Putnam (“Chemistry”) is a professional nature and landscape photographer based in Mount Desert Island, Maine, home of Acadia National Park. www.jkputnamphotography.com.

  Shawn Records (“Nature vs. Nurture”) holds a B.A. from Boise State University and an MFA from Syracuse University. His work has been shown widely and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Portland Art Museum, among others. In addition to his artwork, he shoots commissioned assignments for publications including Vice, Dwell, Travel + Leisure, and The New York Times Magazine. He lives, photographs, and teaches photography in Portland, Oregon. www.shawnrecords.org.

  Rebecca Blume Rothman (“Family Values”) is a photographic artist, illustrator, and project manager who helps build big works of public art. She lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona. www.rebeccablumerothman.com.

  Matthew Schenning (“Depression,” “Fiscal Responsibility”) is a Brooklyn-based photographer originally from Baltimore, Maryland, where he spent his youth playing in the abandoned spaces under highway overpasses. While seeking to understand his own relationship
to his surroundings he interjects a bit of humor and poetry into the imagery of the everyday. www.schenning.com.

  David Shulman (“Custody Battle,” “Optimism”) is a Brooklyn-based photographer and the co-founder of Boundless Brooklyn.

  Kevin Sisemore (“Maternal Instinct,” “Tenderness”) is a photographer living and working in Kansas City. www.kevinsisemore.virb.com.

  Brandon Sorg (“Providence”) is a photographer living in New York City. www.brandonsorg.com.

  Brian Sorg (“Recognition”) has balanced a life of active work in both commercial and fine-art photography since completing his BFA at Columbia College Chicago in 2006. His photographs have appeared in more than fifty solo and group exhibitions and have been published in Rolling Stone, XXL, Bloomberg Businessweek, ESPN the Magazine, Esquire Russia, Glamour France, L’Uomo Vogue, and Marie Claire. www.briansorgfoto.com.

  Sai Sriskandarajah (“Consensus,” “Guilt”) is a lawyer, artist, photographer, and tinkerer. He lives in San Francisco with his family. www.saisriskandarajah.com.

  Tema Stauffer (frontispiece, “Boredom”) is a Montreal-based American photographer whose work examines the social, economic, and psychological landscape of American spaces. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the Sasha Wolf, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, and Jen Bekman galleries in New York and at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. She was awarded an AOL 25 for 25 grant for innovation in the arts in 2010 for her work as an artist, curator, and writer. Stauffer is an assistant professor of photography at Concordia University in Montreal. www.temastauffer.com.

  JJ Sulin (“Fidelity”), born in 1970, is a photographer who lives and works in Brooklyn. His work deals with the everyday. www.jjsulin.com.

  Brian Ulrich (“Material”) is an American photographer known for his exploration of consumer culture. Ulrich’s work is held in collections including the Art Institute of Chicago and the Cleveland Museum of Art. In 2009 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Time, Mother Jones, Artforum, and Harper’s Magazine. Aperture and the Cleveland Museum of Art published his first major monograph, Is This Place Great or What, in 2011. In 2013, the Anderson Gallery published the catalog “Closeout—Retail, Relics and Ephemera.” www.notifbutwhen.com.

  Consider Vosu (“Heirloom”) lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

  Grant Willing (“Friend of the Family”) is an artist based in Brooklyn. He has exhibited his work in the United States and abroad, and has also self-published several books of his photographs and drawings on subjects ranging from black metal to citrus fruit. www.grantwilling.com.

  A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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  Garth Risk Hallberg’s first novel, City on Fire, was an international best seller and was named one of the best books of 2015 by The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and Vogue. It was preceded by A Field Guide to the North American Family, originally published in 2007 by a small art-book press. His work has been translated into seventeen languages.

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