BIOGRAPHY
Working within the documentary tradition, Stacy Kranitz makes photographs that acknowledge the limits of photographic representation. Her images do not tell the “truth” but are honest about their inherent shortcomings, and thus reclaim these failures (exoticism, ambiguity, fetishization) as sympathetic equivalents in order to more forcefully convey the complexity and instability of the lives, places, and moments they depict.
Stacy was born in Kentucky and currently lives in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee. She has received numerous awards for her work, including a Pulitzer Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Solo exhibitions of her photographs have been presented at the Rencontres d’Arles in Arles, France, the Cortona on the Move in Cortona, Italy, and the Tennessee Triennial in Chattanooga, TN. Her photographs are in several public collections, including the Harvard Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, and Duke University, Archive of Documentary Arts. She works on assignment for publications including Time, the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, the Atlantic, ProPublica and Mother Jones. Her first monograph, As it Was Give(n) to Me, was published by Twin Palms in 2022. It was shortlisted for a Paris Photo - Aperture First Photobook Award. Her next monograph, Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down, will be published in 2026 with funding from an Images Vevey Book Award.