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Kim Bourus founded Higher Pictures in 2007, and co-owns the gallery with Janice Guy since 2020. Specializing in photography, the program has featured some of the most radical and influential artists working in the field. Bourus started her time in photography at Magnum Photos in 1998. Artists they represent include Tommy Ka, Keisha Scarville, Nona Faustine and Aspen Mays.

Born in London, Janice Guy studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Germany in the 1970s. In Italy from 1980, she worked for the Lia Rumma gallery in Naples and ran an artists’ residency in Rome. In 1992 she moved to New York City to direct the gallery SteinGladstone before opening her own gallery, Murray Guy, in partnership with Margaret Murray, in operation from 1998 to 2017. Her photographs from the 1970s re-emerged in 2007 and have been shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions since then. In 2019 she had a solo exhibition at Higher Pictures, which she joined as partner in 2020.

Aspen Mays was raised in Charleston NC. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009 and a BA in Anthropology and Spanish from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2002. Mays joined the faculty of the California College of the Arts in 2015 where she is Associate Professor and Chair of Undergraduate Photography, Printmedia, and Painting and Drawing. Mays has had solo exhibitions at Higher Pictures, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago: Light Work in Syracuse; and The Center for Ongoing Projects and Research (COR&P) in Columbus OH. Honors include a Rotary Fellowship in 2006, where she studied photography in Cape Town while volunteering in a clinic for bead working artisans living with HIV. Mays was a 2009-2020 Fulbright Scholar in Santiago, Chile where she spent time with astrophysicists using the world's most advanced telescopes to look at the sky. She received the Purchase Prize Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters in 2021 Her publication (in collaboration with Dan Boardman) Where We've Been, Where We're Going, Why? was shortlisted for the Aperture Foundation/Paris Photo First Photobook Award in 2016. Her artist book, Tengallon Sunflower was published in 2024 by Dais Books.

Deborah Bell Photographs has been a dealer of fine-art photographs since 1988. The gallery offers a broad range of works spanning the history of photography, concentrating on the 20th century, with special emphasis on European photography between the world wars; American photography from the 1940s-1970s; selected fashion photography; and photo-documents of conceptual art and performance. Along with presenting innovative exhibitions and representing living photographers and estates, our goal is to work closely with individuals and institutions in building collections of depth and quality. Deborah Bell Photographs has been a member of AIPAD (Association of International Photography Art Dealers) since 1992.

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Bell’s professional career as a dealer began with a position at the Sander Gallery, New York, in 1984. She then joined the Prints & Photographs Department of Marlborough Gallery in 1985, and from 1986-87 worked with the Estate of Marcel Broodthaers in Brussels, Belgium. From 1988-1990 Bell assisted Richard Pare, Founding Curator of Photographs for the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Seagram Collection, New York. A native of Minnesota, Bell received a BFA in Photography from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1976, and an MA in Art History from Hunter College in 1984. Before and after relocating to New York in 1978, Bell was

a practicing photographer, and worked in editorial and commercial photography as a black-and- white printer and studio assistant. From 1971-77, during her high school and college years in Minnesota, Bell was a docent and assistant-at-large at the Walker Art Center. From 1991-96

she was an adjunct professor of the History of Photography at the School of Visual Arts, New York.

Wijnanda Deroo was born in the Netherlands in 1955. She received a liberal arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Arnhem, where she later became a professor. In 1989 Deroo was

awarded an artist's residency at MoMA P.S. 1 in Long Island City, NY. She continues to live and work in New York.

Deroo is well known for her meticulously composed photographs of interiors, in which people are usually absent. Her earlier series from the 1980s-early 2000s, such as Amsterdam Hotels,

Artists' Studios, Atlantic City, Brooklyn Night, Curaçao, Disappearing Houses, Lower East Side, Mobile Homes, New York Eateries, and Dining Sheds of New York acknowledge human presence

without showing a single person.

Believing that the greatest visual mysteries and adventures are found in "what is," Deroo photographs human-made spaces and the objects within them exactly as she finds them in

existing light (whether daylight or artificial), without external intervention, rearrangement, or other adjustments, thus leaving all details untouched, with all the historical layers visible. Her

work centers on these visual encounters with surprise, stillness, tension, and emotional or psychological states of being. By capturing the original atmosphere of a space, she allows what

is already there to speak its own unique, intriguing language.

Deroo's photographs have been exhibited internationally since the early 1980s.

Arnika Dawkins, is the owner of her eponymous fine art photography gallery established in Atlanta in 2011. The gallery exhibits work by talented emerging and mid-career artists with a specialization in showing fine art photography by and of people from the African Diaspora. Her passion is connecting collectors to photography that is significant, inspiring, and provocative. As a fine art photographer and avid collector, she is a valuable resource to collectors and artists alike. She is passionate about the medium, having obtained a Master of Arts in Digital Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Dawkins is the recipient of the inaugural Community Contribution Award for the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) where she serves on its Board as First Vice Chair.

Atlanta, Ga. based artist, Tokie Rome-Taylor, explores themes of time, spirituality, visibility and identity through the medium of photography. Portraiture, set design, and objects all are a part of Tokie’s photographic practice. She uses digital photography as her foundational medium, while also exploring cyanotype, and embroidery as a means to explore the layered complex relationship African Americans in the diaspora have with the western world. 

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Rome-Taylor’s series, “Reclamation”, was selected for PhotoLucida Critical Mass top 50. Her work has been featured in What Will You Remember and Feature Shoot Magazine. Additionally, Tokie is a Funds for Teachers Fellowship recipient, studying photography in Santa Fe, New Mexico and in San Francisco, California. Rome-Taylor’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work has been a part of exhibitions at The Griffin Museum of Photography, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Stella Jones Gallery, SP-Foto SP-Arte Fair, São Paulo, Brazil, Gallery 1202, the Masur Museum, Zuckerman Museum of Art Lyndon House Art Center and the Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, among others. She is a recipient of the Virginia Twinam Smith Purchase Award, adding her work to the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia as well as the Legacy Award, bestowed by the Griffin Museum of Photography. Her work is held in multiple public and private collections and was recently acquired by the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art. 

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Rome-Taylor is a 20+ year veteran educator and working artist. She is open to opportunities that relate to artist talks, visiting institutions, residencies and workshops.