Ten Years of Photography
(1997–2006)
by Adam Shemper
www.shemperphoto.com

Sponsored by the
Integral Counseling Psychology Program at CIIS

January 22 – March 30
CIIS Main Building, Fourth Floor

Reception and Slide Presentation Friday, February 2, 7–9pm CIIS Main Building, Staff and Faculty Lounge, Fourth Floor

Adam Shemper was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1975. A writer and photographer, his work has been published in Time, Mother Jones, Salon, Double Take, Oxford American, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Jose Mercury News. Shemper, a UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism alumnus, has taught photography at the University of Mississippi and Hampshire College. In 2004 his photographs were included in the International Center of Photography’s online “Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self.” Shemper’s photographs are informed by the social documentary tradition, yet his ultimate goal is to describe existential life and the true nature of the individual: our alienation and suffering and our potential for liberation and freedom. As an observer of the ordinary, his photography reflects the distant exterior world of others, yet captures the private interior of the self. Shemper currently is enrolled in CIIS’s Integral Counseling Psychology program.

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