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KRISTINE POTTER AND GREGORY HARRIS

In Conversation

Date: September 19th, 2025
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM CT
Cost: FREE
Location: Columbia College Chicago Student Center | 754 S Wabash Ave

In conjunction with the 2025 Filter Photo Festival, Filter Photo is pleased to present  Kristin Potter and Gregory Harris in conversation, as they discuss Potter's photographic practice and publications, Dark Waters (2023) and Manifest (2018). 

Kristine Potter is an artist whose work explores masculine archetypes, the American landscape, and the cultural tendency to mythologize the past. Her first monograph, Manifest, was published by TBW Books in 2018. She has received numerous national and international awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2018), the Grand Prix Image Vevey (2019–2020), and the Hariban Prize (2023). Her second monograph, Dark Waters, was published by Aperture in 2023. Potter's work is included in numerous public and private collections, such as the High Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Georgia Museum of Art, Light Work, the Swiss Camera Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Middle Tennessee State University and is represented by Sasha Wolf Projects in New York and MiCamera in Milan.


Gregory Harris is the Donald and Marilyn Keough Family Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. He is a specialist in contemporary photography with a particular interest in documentary practice. Since joining the Museum in 2016, Harris has curated over a dozen exhibitions that consider an array of topics including notions of truth in contemporary photography, the intersections of photography and self-taught art, and distinct history of photography in the South. He has grown the collection by more than 3,000 photographs, including major acquisitions by Deana Lawson, Paul Graham, and Zanele Muholi, and commissions by Jim Goldberg, Mark Steinmetz, and An-My Lê. Harris was previously the Assistant Curator at the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago and also held curatorial positions at the Art Institute of Chicago. He earned a BFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago and an MA in art history from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is currently working on a centennial exhibition of Ralph Eugene Meatyard and solo exhibitions with Mimi Plumb and Richard Misrach. 

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