Jeff Whetstone: New Wilderness
February - March 2015
Bob Owens Art Gallery - University of North Georgia - Dahlonega
Jeff Whetstone was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and has been photographing and writing about the relationship between man and nature since he received a Zoology degree from Duke University in 1990. After receiving his MFA in photography from Yale in 2001, he was awarded the prestigious Sakier Prize for photography. Since then, his work has been exhibited internationally and received reviews in The Village Voice, New York Times, New Yorker Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times. Whetstone teaches at the Art Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Whetstone was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007 for his New Wilderness body of work.
