Conversation with photographers Austin Irving and Mark Hanauer

Austin Irving (b 1984, NYC) is an internationally award winning visual artist who works with large format analog photography. Irving graduated cum laude with a BFA from the Department of Photography and Imaging at NYU’s TISCH School Of The Arts in 2006. Her artwork has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and festivals, in Hong Kong, India, Germany, Lithuania, France, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Indonesia, and across The United States. Irving has participated in exhibitions at institutions such as MOCA, The Irvine Fine Arts Center, The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Virginia Tech, The International Photography Symposium, and The Katonah Museum of Art. Her work as been the recipient of numerous awards including the Architecture Master Prize, Aesthetica Art Prize, Mono Awards, American Photography Competition, Budapest International Foto Awards, IPA, PX3 Paris Photography Prize, Tokyo International Foto Awards, Analog Sparks, and the International Photography Competition at The New York Center for Photographic Arts. Her images have been featured in The Los Angeles Times, Wired, Slate, Architectural Digest, Aesthetica Magazine, LA Weekly, PDN, Art Ltd., Artillery, Time Out NY, The Herald Tribune, Maize, The Huffington Post, Frontrunner, Artsy, Voyage LA, Yatzer, and Artweek LA.

Mark Hanauer is an internationally renowned photographer with an experienced, ever-searching eye, who moves seamlessly between genres – from evocative portraits to ethereal meditations on flowers or visceral landscapes – and also stays within the moment while exploring the technical, visual and emotional possibilities of his surroundings, plumbs his own psychological depths only to discover what makes him love work and life.