Jeff Rich
Jeff Rich (b. 1977) is a North Carolina-based photographer and educator who serves as assistant professor of photography at Coastal Carolina University. 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.
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 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.