Tag: Brian Shumway

Brian Shumway – Happy Valley | LensCulture

Happy Valley – Photographs and text by Brian Shumway | LensCulture

An intimate, strange and quirky family diary chronicling over several years the everyday lives and relationships of typical middle-class kids and teens as they come of age in the ever-changing but sheltered milieu of contemporary suburban America (in Utah

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Happy Valley is an intimate, strange and quirky family diary chronicling over several years the everyday lives and relationships of typical middle-class kids and teens (my nieces and nephews) as they come of age in the ever-changing but sheltered milieu of contemporary suburban America (in Utah).

February 23, 2015
‘Suburban Splendor’: Portraits Capture Coming of Age in Utah – Feature Shoot

‘Suburban Splendor’: Portraits Capture Coming of Age in Utah – Feature Shoot

For Suburban Splendor, Brooklyn-based photographer Brian Shumway returns to his suburban roots, challenging both the optimism of mid-century American ideals and modern stereotypes surrounding suburban living. As a child of a miner father who worked his wa

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For Suburban Splendor, Brooklyn-based photographer Brian Shumway returns to his suburban roots, challenging both the optimism of mid-century American ideals and modern stereotypes surrounding suburban living

August 6, 2014
Happy Valley, Utah: Brian Shumway Reflects on his Mormon Upbringing

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It’s beyond cliché to say, “You can never go home again.” For the last 10 years, photographer Brian Shumway has been doing his best to turn this time-honored adage on its head, returning to his native Utah, a place known as “Happy Valley” to create a visual and emotional exploration of his own childhood and adolescence by photographing his siblings and their children.

December 6, 2011
QA: Brian Shumway, New York

Q&A: Brian Shumway, New York – Feature Shoot:

Brian Shumway is a New York City based photographer whose work blurs the line between portraiture, documentary and fine art photography. He has worked for Reader’s Digest, Smart Money, Newsweek, Time, XXL, TV Guide and the New York Times, among others, and has appeared in American Photography, Communication Arts, Shots Magazine and the Photo Review. Brian was one of Magenta Foundation’s top 25 ‘Emerging Photographers’ in the USA in 2006 and 2008. La Chureca, his story on the city dump in Managua, Nicaragua, was a finalist for the (Santa Fe) Center’s 2008 Project Competition. He is represented by Redux Pictures. This selection of pictures is from Happy Valley, which is a personal look at Utah Valley, misunderstood suburban home of the Mormons and ironically known as Happy Valley, through the daily life of his family.

August 31, 2009
brian shumway – la chureca | burn magazine

La Chureca (‘the scavenger’) is home to one of the largest inhabited dump communities in the world.

Check it out here.

March 22, 2009