Midwest Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Zora J Murff

Friday, October 25, 2019 @ 6:00pm, MIAD: 4th Floor Raw Space

MIAD Creativity Series: Strange Fire Collective

Zora J Murff is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas. Murff holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Nebraska--Lincoln and a BS in Psychology from Iowa State University. Combining his education in human services and art, Zora's photography focuses on the experiences of youth in the juvenile justice system, the role of images in the correctional system, and how images are used to define individuals who are deemed criminals. His work has been featured online including The British Journal of Photography, and has been published in VICE Magazine and Good Magazine amongst others. Zora was named a LensCulture 2015 Top 50 Emerging Talent, a 2014 Critical Mass finalist, and is a part of the Midwest Photographers Project through the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Zora published his first monograph, Corrections, through Aint-Bad Editions in the Winter of 2015.