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INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS
Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten - The Wound We Inflict: Stacy Kranitz’s photos in Dresden
Session Press - Stacy Kranitz and Chris Verene The Safety Net exhibition, Session Press
YNST - Inside the Outsider: A Conversation With Photographer Stacy Kranitz, 2025
The Face - Stacy Kranitz is photographing life in rural Appalachia, 2024
Internazionale - Obligatory Choice, 2024
Nieman Storyboard - Following an unfinished story, 2024
Inside Appalachia - A Tennessee Photographer’s ‘Guttural’ Photos Of Appalachia, 2024
The Urbanaut Podcast - episode #31, 2024
Bomb - Stacy Kranitz by Robert Alan Grand, 2023
Document Journal - Stacy Kranitz Captures Appalachia As It IS, 2023
Modern Art Notes - Episode 620: Stacy Kranitz and Kristine Potter, 2023
A Small Voice: Interviews with Photographers, Stacy Kranitz, 2023
Blind - The Missionary and the Villan, 2023
National Press Photographers Association - An Interview with Stacy Kranitz, 2023
To Be - Stacy Kranitz on the Power of Becoming Undone, 2023
Atlantic - The Photographer Undoing the Myth of Appalachia, 2022
Fotografisk Tidskrift - Twelve years in One Place, 2022
Liberation - Stacy Kranitz, On Se Met Une Mine, 2022
Washington Post - Life in Appalachia in “As it Was Give(n) to Me, 2022
Collector Daily - Stacy Kranitz, As it was Give(n) to Me, 2022
Musee - Book Review: As It Was Give(n) to Me by Stacy Kranitz, 2022
PH Museum - Sunset Over Appalachia, 2022
Huck - Capturing a Different side to America’s Appalchia, 2022
Blind Magazine - The Ping Pong Effect, 2022
The Creative Independent - Photographer Stacy Kranitz on Remaining Curious, 2022
Columbia Journalism Review - Against ‘poor’ Reporting, 2022
It’s Nice That - Should Only Working Class Photographers take Pictures of Working-Class Places?, 2022
I-D - Intimate photos of working-class life In Appalachia, 2022
Sixteen Journal Vol.7, 2022
Nashville Scene - Girls on Film, 2021
Float Magazine - Life is Art, 2021
Devour the Land - Published by Harvard Art Museums, 2021
PH Museum - A Rural, Working Class Rebellion in Appalachia, 2020
Burnaway Reader: Laws of Salvage, 2020
It’s Nice That - Stacy Kranitz on the Flaws of Documentary Photography, 2019
Juxtapoz - Stacy Kranitz Explores the American Appalachia, 2019
Locate Arts - Interview: Stacy Kranitz, 2019
Liberation - Stacy Kranitz: La Photographie M’a Rendue a la Vie, 2019
British Journal of Photography - As it Was Give(n) To Me, 2019
The State Journal - Understanding Culture through the Lens, 2019
The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization - SPBH, 2019
Hot Shoe - Issue 203, Southern, 2019
The Reservoir - Deep Down Cancer Alley, 2018
Sewanee Review - Fall 2018, 2018
Photofile #101 - Australian Center for Photography, 2018
Anxy, The Masculinity Issue, 2018
Polka #44, 2018
PDN - Stacy Kranitz and Zoe Strauss on Their Collaborative Examination of American Economic Decay, 2017
Ain't Bad - The Inimitable Otherness of Stacy Kranitz, 2016
Photo District News - Appalachian Odyssey, 2016
Juxtapoz - Stacy Kranitz – it’s All Personal, 2016
Mossless - Public/Private/Portrait, International Center for Photography, 2016
Time - Stacy Kranitz is TIME’s pick for Instagram Photographer of the Year, 2016
Dazed and Confused - Rethinking the Face of 'poverty' in America Today, 2016
The Guardian - Can a Photographs on the Appalachians Shuck Stereotypes, 2016
American Suburb X - Interrogating the Notion of Documentary Truth, 2016
Paper Journal - Interview: Stacy Kranitz, New Humanism, 2016
Blount Art Info - Lost Boys: Stacy Kranitz Exposes a Skate Park’s Dark Side, 2015
Time - Coming of Age in Skatopia, Ohio’s 88-Acre Skatepark, 2015
The Heavy Collective The Heavy Collective Volume One, 2015
Photographers Sketchbooks - Thames and Hudson DNCHT - #17, 2014
British Journal of Photography - Kicking Against the Pricks, 2013
Columbia Journalism Review - On the Job, The Outsider, 2013
Dear Dave - Issue 15, 2013
Granta - Issue 118, 2012
ARTIST TALKS
University of Texas, Austin, 2025
Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, 2025
Lexington Public Library, Lexington, KY, 2025
Frist Museum, Nashville, TN, 2025
10x10 Photobook Salon, Magnum Foundation, New York, NY, 2024
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 2023
Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, TN, 2023
University of Bath, Bath, UK, 2023
Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, 2023
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, 2023
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 2022
Royal Photographic Society, London, UK, 2021
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, 2021
Medium Photography Festival, San Diego, CA
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2020
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2020
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, 2019
Sewanee, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, 2019
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC, 2018
Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY, 2018
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 2018
Loyola University, New Orleans, LA, 2017
Watkins College of Art and Design, Nashville, TN, 2017
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2017
Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2017
New Orleans Photographers Alliance, New Orleans, LA, 2016
National Press Photographers Association of Canada, Toronto, Canada, 2016
Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN, 2015
Eastern Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, 2015
Cardiff International Festival of Photography, Wales, UK, 2014
Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, 2014
EDUCATION
University of California, Irvine, MFA, Department of Art
New York University, BA, Gallatin School of Individualized Study
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Pulitzer Prize, 2025
Images Vevey Book Award, 2025
FotoEvidence W Award, 2025
George Polk Award, 2025
Current Art Fund Award, 2025
Scripps Howard Journalism Award for Excellence in Visual Human Interest Storytelling, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Grand Prize, 2025
Worth Bingham Prize, 2025
ASME National Magazine Award, 2025
Shaufler Prize, 2025
CECA Tennessee Artist Fellowship, 2024
Center for Visual Documentation Fellowship, 2023
Paris Photo - Aperture First Photobook Award (Shortlisted), 2022
Duke Archive of Documentary Arts Collection Award, 2022
The Puffin Foundation Grant, 2022
Field Projects Residency, 2022
National Geographic Society Grant, 2021
Ella Lyman Cabot Trust Grant, 2021
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2020
Southern Documentary Fund Research and Development Grant, 2020
We Women Grant, 2020
Magnum Foundation Fund Award, 2020
Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Artist in Residency, 2019
Louis Roederer Discover Award (Shortlisted), 2019
Crosstown Arts Residency, 2019
Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography, 2017
Columbus State University, Artist in Residence, 2017
Time Magazine Instagram Photographer of the Year, 2015
The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences, Residency, 2015
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Harvard Art Museums
Museum of Fine Art, Houston
The Do Good Fund
Duke University, Archive of Documentary Arts
MONOGRAPHS
As It Was Give(n) to Me, Twin Palms, 2022