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Eric T. Kunsman (b. 1975) was born and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is an Assistant Professor in the Visual Communications Studies Department at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and teaches additional courses for the School of Photographic Arts & Sciences.
Eric is a recipient of the 2025 CENTER Santa Fe's Callanan Excellence in Teaching Award, 2025 Center for Photographic Art Grant Recipient- Juror's Choice, and 2024 JGS Fellowship for Photography Recipient from The New York Foundation for the Arts. He was a 2022 nominee for Prix Pictet- Humans and named one of 10 B&W photographers to watch of 2018 by BWGallerist; B&W Best Photographers of the Year 2019 & 2021 by Dodho Magazine; won the Association of Photography (UK) Gold Award for Open Series in 2019 and was a finalist in 2024; Critical Mass Finalist Top 200 Critical Mass 2019, 2020, 2021; Top 50 Critical Mass in 2022; Top 15 Photographers for the Rust Belt Biennial; and LensCulture's New Visions Award 2025, Critics' Choice 2022, and B&W Jurors' Pick 2021. His Project Felicific Calculus was also awarded a Warhol Foundation Grant through CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY.
Eric has held over 40 solo exhibitions internationally. His work has been exhibited in over 250 galleries and museums and featured in Bloomberg Businessweek, Harper's Magazine, LensWork, Loupe Magazine, Dodho, B&W Photography, Analog Explorations, All About Photo, Black+White Photography (UK), The Washington Post, and Dek Unu. He has also been featured in online articles by All About Photo, F-Stop Magazine, Analog Forever Magazine, Catalyst: Interview, PetaPixel, Texas Photo Society, and many others.
