Larissa Leclair

Larissa Leclair is an independent photography writer and curator. Her writings on photography have been published in the photo-eye Booklist, Photography Quarterly, Fraction Magazine and ArtVoices. She curated the exhibition Today’s Past: Images of Africa from 1952 to 1960 of photographs by David E. Apter at Yale University and re-appropriated the Zagourski postcard collection. She has photographed for the Chicago Field Museum and the U.S. State Department and has worked for Arena Editions, Outside Magazine, and the Santa Fe Workshops. She is on the PhotoBook Committee for FotoWeek DC, a reviewer for Critical Mass, and assisted Philip Brookman with the exhibition Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change on view at the Corcoran Gallery of Art from April 10-July 18, 2010. (See Exhibitions/Events for more exhibitions.) Larissa is also a collector of photography and photography books. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis and a Masters from Yale University. She is the Founder of the Indie Photobook Library.