Jeff Rich
Jeff Rich (b. 1977) is a is a Georgia-based photographer and educator who serves as a professor of photography at The Savannah College of Art and Design. Rich’s photographs explore water-related issues, such as recreation, sustainability, and exploitation. His long-term project Watershed: A Survey of The French Broad River Basin was awarded the 2010 Critical Mass Book Award and was published as a monograph in 2012. In 2017, Fall Line Press published the book “Watershed: The Tennesse River” featuring his project of the same name.
His work can be found in the collections of the Library of Congress Print Collection (Washington, DC); the Middlebury College Museum of Art (Middlebury, VT); the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University (New Haven, CT); the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago); the Asheville Art Museum; and the High Museum of Art (Atlanta). He has been commissioned by The New York Times Magazine, The Financial Times Weekend Magazine, American Rivers, Der Spiegel, Outside Magazine, and The Sierra Club. He also curates the weekly series Eyes on the South for Oxford American Magazine. Rich received his MFA in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008.