Jeff Whetstone
Jeff Whetstone (b. 1968) is Director of the Visual Arts Program and professor of Photography at Princeton University. He received a BS in zoology from Duke University and an MFA in photography from Yale University. He was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007 for his series New Wilderness, and in 2008 received the Gibbes Museum of Art’s 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art.
Whetstone’s photographs explore contemporary understandings of wilderness and our stereotypes relating to rural populations. Whetstone has also interrogated the relationship between humans and their environments in short experimental films. His work is in many collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York); the New York Public Library Collection; the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh); the Nelson-Atkins Museum (Kansas City); the Nasher Museum (Durham, NC); and the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT).