Little Moose Island, Acadia National Park, Maine, 2020
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Eliot Dudik is an American photographer and book artist with works in institutional and private collections worldwide. His long-term projects, books, and collaborations focus on the connections between landscape, culture, memory, history, and how these combine to create place. Increasingly focused on the photobook as a means of expression, Eliot has published, self-published, or hand crafted 11 editions to date, beginning with Road Ends In Water in 2010. He was awarded the PhotoNOLA Review Prize in 2014 for his Broken Land and Still Lives portfolio, resulting in a book publication and solo exhibition. In 2015, he was selected for Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward and Duke University's Archive of Documentary Arts Collection Award for the entire series of Road Ends in Water prints.
His works have been acquired by institutions such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Duke University’s Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the MoMA Library, Virginia Commonwealth University's Special Collections and Archives, Chrysler Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, William & Mary, the Cassilhaus Collection, The Do Good Fund Collection, Southeast Museum of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Phoenix Art Museum, as well as many private collections.
Eliot is based in Richmond, Virginia where he manages his active photography and book arts studios. He founded the photography program within the Department of Art & Art History at the College of William & Mary in 2014 where he is currently teaching and learning. (To see some of his students' work, follow William & Mary Photo on Instagram @williamandmary_photo)
