Jeff Whetstone

Jeff Whetstone is a photographer and professor of visual arts at Princeton University. A native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, he photographs and writes about the relationship between humans and their environment. Whetstone served for five years as an artist-in-residence at Appalshop, Inc., in Kentucky, where he produced numerous exhibitions about the changing Appalachian culture and landscape. Whetstone has won may prizes and fellowships including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, the Village Voice, New York Magazine, and Art News, among other publications. Prior to teaching at Princeton, he was a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for fourteen years.

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