Anne Kornfeld is a photographer whose work espouses the complexities, off-beat and underlying realities of the psychic states of people and environments. She has been published in the New York Times, the New Yorker and in the upcoming addition to a medical book The Autonomic Nervous System in the chapter on the impact of COVID-19.
Anne Kornfeld is a photographer whose work espouses the complexities, off-beat and underlying realities of the psychic states of people and environments. She has been published in the New York Times, the New Yorker and in the upcoming addition to a medical book The Autonomic Nervous System in the chapter on the impact of COVID-19. Her work has garnered honorable mentions in the Pollex Awards and Julia Margaret Cameron Award for women photographers and The Magic of Light at the Photo Place Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont. Recently she has been featured in the Pasadena Photography Arts Review for street photography and has been included in shows for the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Southeast Center for Photography.
Known as a leader in arts education in the New York City public schools, Anne has worked with immigrant youth at Newcomers High School in Queens, where she founded an award-winning art program. In addition to teaching and counseling, she was chosen to be a part of writing and training of teachers in the National Standards in Media Arts . She has worked at both the city, state, and national level to ensure that all students grades K-12 receive media arts education. At present she continues to be an adjunct lecturer at CUNY LaGuardia where she teaches Critical Thinking and Photography. She has received grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities and The Center for Arts Education. She spends her time between Brooklyn, New York and Santa Fe, New Mexico and has done extensive travel and volunteer work within the US and abroad. Anne Kornfeld holds an MFA in Photography from Yale University School of Art where she received the John Ferguson Weir Award for the most outstanding student in the school.