Who We Are

For more information about joining the Board of Directors at the Vermont Center for Photography or to contact any board member directly, please contact Joshua Farr at josh@vcphoto.org

Joshua Farr is a photographer, curator, designer, printer, art-handler, and Director at the Vermont Center for Photography. Since 2011, Josh has been responsible for curating the center’s monthly photographic exhibitions as well as assisting with the organizing of photographic workshops, artists talks, publications/catalogues, & portfolio reviews. Joshua worked for the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center from 2012 to 2021 where he was a staff photographer and exhibitions installer/art-handler. Graduating in 2011, he received his BFA in Photography from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Josh lives in Guilford, VT with his partner and two dogs. (Portrait by Lorianna Weathers)

Originally from Milan, Italy, she moved to the United States to pursue her photographic education, and in 2018 she received her Masters of Fine Art in Photography from the (former) New Hampshire Institute of Art. You can see more of her work here.
She is the founder of the online platform Underexposed Magazine, where she has been publishing and curating fine art photography made by women and women identifying photographers ever since. She also teaches photography at Landmark College, in Putney, VT and provides mentoring for emerging and mid carrier photographers. (Portrait by Lorianna Weathers)

Originally from Huntington, Vermont, Willoughby Carlo moved to Massachusetts to go attend Hampshire College. Since graduating Willoughby has spent her time in Western Mass and Southern Vermont studying and pursuing photography and art in all forms. Most of Willoughby’s work focuses on analog and experimental processes. She believes that art and photography are as much about the process as the end result and we learn the most about ourselves when we pay attention to the process and accept change. Willoughby currently works as an instructor at In-Sight Photography Project and is excited to join the team as the PhotoThrift Manager at the Vermont Center for Photography.   (Portrait by Paul Reitano)

Chris moved to the area a decade ago, after a series of unique visits to Vermont – a blue heron flying overhead, a collection of butterflies swarming all around, and an overly-generous local bake sale. With a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering and having worked in a consulting capacity in the clean energy field for over a decade, Chris brings a diverse set of skills to support the mission of VCP including design, project development, and grant writing. While his formal photography education is limited to classes taken while living in NYC, he has spent many years donating portrait and event photographs for local organizations and seeks to bring the joy of photography to as many people as possible. Chris lives in Guilford with his wife and daughters.

Mitch Weiss is a Vermont based photographer, consultant and mentor. His photographs reflect and honor the techniques of mid 20th century large format film photography. Mitch’s work ranges from high-profile celebrity portraiture for charity auctions to private art commissions and personal nature studies. In 2009, he was hospitalized with an acute onset of blindness. The abrupt loss of vision left an immense yearning to heal and get back behind the camera. If recovered, he vowed not to let a single day pass without creating or contributing. Miraculously, Weiss made a slow, yet full recovery and continues to honor that vow to this day.

Dale Rio is a photographic artist whose work explores issues such as mortality, human constructs, and man’s relationship with the natural world. Her work has been shown extensively in the U.S., as well as in England, Germany, and New Zealand. Her images reside in private collections and have been reproduced in countless publications. Dale received a BA in Studio Art from Smith College in 1993 and an MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 1996. In 1997, she was awarded a Fulbright Travel Grant and the Miguel Vinciguerra Grant to document life in rural Sicily. Upon her return to the States, Dale embarked upon a varied photographic career that has included freelancing, serving as a master darkroom printer, teaching, curating, and editing. She has attended residencies at Penland, the Studios at MASS MoCA, and the Farmington Valley Arts Center and will be in residence at Ars BioArctica in 2023. Dale co-founded The Halide Project, a Philadelphia-based non-profit whose mission is the support of film and historic process photography. In 2021, she launched Point A to Point B: analog explorations and in 2022 she founded Lux et Libera: women at the intersection of light and chemistry.

Bernard Van der Lande is an avid, practicing photographer and collector of humanist, documentary photography.  He and his family live in Putney, Vermont.  Bernard is also Partner of a global private equity firm focused on alternative assets.

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Catherine Dianich Gruver is a photographer and gallerist, living in Dummerston, VT. She owned and operated the Dianich Gallery in downtown Brattleboro for many years.