Yola Monakhov Stockton

Greve in Chianti, Italy, 2009
Yola Monakhov Stockton
15 x 20 cm
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of 3
€ 285

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Yola Monakhov Stockton was born in Moscow and raised in New York City. She studied comparative literature as an undergraduate and entered photojournalism and editorial photography after receiving a master’s degree in Italian from Columbia University. Her editorial work, mostly of situations of conflict in the Middle East and Central Asia, have been widely published. She returned to Columbia for her MFA in 2005 and became a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine. She has taught at Columbia, the International Center of Photography, LaGuardia Community College, Pace University, and Smith College. Her work is in the permanent collections of the George Eastman Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Smith College Museum of Art, JP Morgan Chase, and Fidelity Investments. Her first monograph, The Nature of Imitation, was published by Schilt Publishing in 2015. Her work has been exhibited at the Alice Austen House, George Eastman Museum, Light Field Festival, Sasha Wolf Gallery, and Tianshui Photography Festival, and Rick Wester Fine Art and Schilt Gallery. She is Assistant Professor and head of photography at SUNY Buffalo State College.

www.yolamonakhov.com