Aaron Canipe
Aaron Canipe (b. 1990) is a photographer, curator, book artist, and educator from Hickory, North Carolina. He holds a BFA in Fine Art Photography from Corcoran College of Art + Design and an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University. Canipe's work lives in various forms, from independently published books and zines, to physical exhibitions across the South, and focuses on the poetics of loss, innocence, and faith in the landscape of the Piedmont.
His photographs have been acquired by the Telfair Museum (Savannah, GA); the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University (New Haven, CT); and the Archive of Documentary Arts at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University (Durham, NC). Currently, Canipe is a graphic designer at Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, NC. Currently, Canipe lives in Mebane, North Carolina and is a Digitization Specialist at Duke University Libraries.