Donald Camp

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Donald Camp (b. 1940, Philadelphia, PA) is an American artist photographer and professor of photography at Ursinus College in Collegeville, PA. Donald Camp holds both a BFA and an MFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Donald Camp is notable for his portraits that explore the dignity and nobility that can be found in the human face, particularly those of African American men. Donald Camp’s unique printing methods are based on early 19th Century non-silver photographic processes. He has adapted these processes to use photo-sensitized earth pigments, essentially dust, to produce his photographs. His work has been collected by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Donald Camp currently lives and works in Philadelphia.

Grants

Art of the State: Pennsylvania ‘96, Photography Award Winner in 1996
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1995
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1995
Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 1995
Pennsylvania Visual Arts Fellow in 1995
Advisory Board of the Creative Artist Network in 1995
Pew Charitable Trust: Fellowship in the Arts Discipline Winner in 1994
Pew Regional Visiting Artists Fellowship for the American Academy in Rome in 1994
Pew/ American Academy in Rome fellowship in 1993
Pennsylvania Visual Artist Fellow in 1993
Pennsylvania Visual Artist Fellow in 1991
American Artist Oral History Smithsonian Institute in 1991