Alison Nordström is an independent writer and curator specializing in photographs. As Founding Director of the Southeast Museum of Photography (FL) (1991-2002) and Senior Curator of Photographs at George Eastman House (NY) (2004-2013) she has curated more than 150 photographic exhibitions in nine countries, including Lewis Hine, Truth/Beauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, and Ideas in Things: Photography and Materiality. An editor of Photography and Culture (UK 2007-2010) and author of 100+ books and essays on photographic topics, she was Artistic Director of Fotofestiwal Lodz (Poland 2015-2016), curator of Fontcuberta: Crisis of History for the Hamburg Photographic Triennial (Germany, 2018) and Findings: Torben Eskerod at Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (2022). She is currently a Director of Photo Soup, an annual multi-day symposium and publication project for workers in the photographic field. Nordström holds the PhD in Cultural and Visual Studies and is currently a Museum Research Associate at Harvard University.
