West Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Zora J Murff

Saturday, November 04, 2017 @ 8:30am, Lake Room, Granlibakken Conference Center

Fade Like a Sigh

Zora J Murff is an MFA Candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Zora studied Photography at The University of Iowa and holds a BS in Psychology from Iowa State University. Combining his education in human services and art, Zora's photography explores how images are used to reinforce sociocultural constructs. His work has been exhibited nationally, internationally, and featured online including the New York Times, The British Journal of Photography, VICE Magazine, Huck Magazine, and GOOD Magazine. Zora was named the winner of the 2017 Daylight Photo Awards, a Joy of Giving Something Fellow through Imagining America in 2016, and was selected as a LensCulture 2015 Top 50 Emerging Talent. Zora published his first monograph, Corrections, through Aint-Bad Editions in the Winter of 2015.