Creatures

In the 1960s, David Batchelder received an MA and MFA in photography from the University of Iowa studying under John Schulze. He taught photography at Smith College, Amherst College, Boston University, Dartmouth State College, and Plymouth State College. His early photographs were exhibited widely, published in Aperture magazine, and can be admired in the following collections: Addison Gallery of American Art, Fogg Museum, George Eastman House, Michigan Institute of Technology, Smith College, Bowdoin College, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Hood Museum, and Dartmouth College. Batchelder did not start making creative photographs until 1984. Ninety photographs from Tideland were exhibited at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Charleston, South Carolina in 2014.

Dr. Christiane Stahl, born 1963 in Mannheim / Germany. Studied art history at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris and at the Freie Universität (FU) in Berlin. Worked since 1991 for different German Museums and Gallery Karsten Greve Cologne. Since 2002 founding director of the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation in Cologne. 2005 PhD at FU Berlin about Alfred Ehrhardt‘s early photographic work. 2010 moves the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation to Berlin, since then member of the advisory board of the European Month of Photography. Curatorial works, publications, lectures, jury-activities, portfolio-viewings with focus on modern and contemporary photography.