Haines congratulates Chris McCaw, who has been awarded a 2026 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Photography.
McCaw’s artistic practice is firmly rooted in the history of photography while pushing the medium in new directions. Utilizing hand-built cameras, his inventive process takes photography’s essential components — light and time, lenses and light-sensitive materials — to generate startlingly inventive photographic forms. McCaw's elegant, highly crafted images speak to a mastery of complex, analog photographic processes, revealing landscapes shaped at once by geography, astronomy, and his own experimental rigor.
Established in 1925, the Guggenheim Fellowship supports individuals who demonstrate exceptional capacity for achievement across the arts, sciences, and humanities. McCaw is among this year's 223 fellows, selected through a rigorous peer review process from nearly 5,000 applicants in recognition of both past accomplishments and future promise. “Our new class of Guggenheim Fellows is representative of the world’s best thinkers, innovators, and creators in art, science, and scholarship,” said Edward Hirsch, award-winning poet and President of the Guggenheim Foundation.
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