6.14.2009

EMILY SHUR: Portraits and Projects

Picnic Table, Queenstown, New Zealand
Photograph © Emily Shur
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Victoria’s Peak, Hong Kong
Photograph © Emily Shur
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Imperial Palace Gardens with Wall, Tokyo
Photograph © Emily Shur
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Michael Cera
Photograph © Emily Shur
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Elijah Wood
Photograph © Emily Shur
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Adrian Grenier
Photograph © Emily Shur
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Sunset, Biloxi, Mississippi
Photograph © Emily Shur
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EMILY SHUR was born in New York City, at New York Hospital, to an auditorium full of nursing students. She majored in Photography at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and graduated in 1998 with academic honors along with the Artist Award for Creative Excellence.

Emily's photographs have been published in The New York Times Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, Interview, Wired, and Elle Magazine to name a few. She's completed ad campaigns for MTV Networks, America Online, Yahoo, along with Sierra Mist and others. She's lectured about her work at New York University, School of Visual Arts in New York City, The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and Loyola Marymount University.

Shur's work has also been featured in Communication Arts (2005) and included in American Photography 22, 24, and 25 (2006, 2008, and 2009). She was a 2005 winner in The Art Director’s Club Young Guns global competition. In 2008, she received an honorable mention in the Photography.Book.Now competition and was honored to have an image in the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Emily was one of 100 photographers invited to participate in Review Santa Fe 2009. Preview Shur's new book The Woods here.

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