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