
Debi Cornwall is a conceptual documentary artist who returned to visual expression in 2014 after a 12-year career as a civil-rights lawyer. Marrying dark humor with structural critique, she employs photographs, sound, video, testimony, and other materials to examine American state-created realities.
Recent honors include a NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Photography, a Leica Women Foto Award, a Harpo Foundation Visual Artist Grant, as well as being shortlisted for the W. Eugene Smith Fund Grant and the Tim Hetherington Trust Visionary Award. Her work has been profiled in Art in America Magazine, European Photography Magazine, Fisheye, <...