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Edition of 100Hahnemuhle Fine Art Paper
8x10", 11x14", and 16x20"
For fifteen years, Constantinople has been working as a photographer and freelance photo-archivist/editor, exhibiting her work nationally and internationally. Her work can be found in numerous private collections, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
In recent years she has worked as the director of several photographic archives, including the David Fenton Collection, an archive of over 4000 images of the late 1960s counterculture; the Volkmar K. Wentzel Collection, an archive of over 12,000 negatives and prints of the late National Geographic photographer and writer Volkmar Wentzel; and the collection of Lucian Perkins, a Pulitzer Prizewinning photographer for the Washington Post. She is currently working with Wade Davis, Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, editing and managing his collection for book projects, representation with Getty Images, and other ventures.
Constantinople has edited several books, most recently SHOTS: An American Photographer's Journal 1967-72, by David Fenton (2005), with contributions by Norman Mailer, Tom Hayden and Chris Murray (Govinda Gallery). She recently curated "David Fenton: Eye of the Revolution" with Steven Kasher of Steven Kasher Gallery, NYC. She is currently working on the book and exhibition project "HARD ART, WASHINGTON, D.C., 1979", about Lucian Perkins' photos of the D.C. punk scene circa 1979-80, with husband Alec MacKaye and curator/gallerist Jayme McLellan of Civilian Art Projects. She teaches photography at Sidwell Friends School. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1993.
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This photograph was taken in the early morning in Isla Mujeres, Mexico, March 2010.