Publisher in Residence | Alexa Dilworth

As part of our Photobook Focus programming, the Griffin Museum is pleased to offer 25-minute online portfolio reviews — an opportunity for learning and growth. Presented in partnership with esteemed photographic artists and independent photobook publishers, these focused sessions provide valuable insights and guidance. This setting offers photographers invaluable insights into crafting their photobook vision. Receive direct feedback on your book dummy, design, and sequencing, tailored to the unique demands of the photobook medium. Elevate your project with expert guidance, bridging artistic vision with publishing expertise.

Alexa Dilworth is offering eight 25-minute online portfolio reviews on April 17th. There are two ticket options: Member and General Registration. Explore all the benefits of membership on our Member page — we’d love to have you join us! Time slots will be assigned based on availability.

Alexa Dilworth, a writer and editor and a native Floridian, was the publishing and awards director at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for more than twenty years. She has a B.A. and an M.A. in English from the University of Florida and an M.F.A. in creative writing (poetry) from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her writing has appeared in Lenscratch, Aperture’s Photobook Review, the Oxford American, Wag’s Revue, exhibition catalogs, and photography monographs.

Dilworth has edited the text and/or photos for over seventy books, most recently Pictures for Charis by Kelli Connell (Aperture, 2024), Graciela Iturbide on Dreams, Symbols, and Imagination (Aperture, 2022), The Colors We Share by Angélica Dass (Aperture, 2021), and Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial by Jessica Ingram (CDS/UNC Press, a New York Times Best Art Book of 2020). Dilworth has been Curator in Residence (2020) and Publisher in Residence (2023) at the Griffin Museum of Photography and curated the museum’s 26th Juried Exhibition. She has co-curated three Slow Exposures exhibitions with Aline Smithson (2014, 2018, 2023), Forgotten at the Southeast Center for Photography (2022), Currents at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (2015), and has been a guest curator for the “Eyes on the South” column in the Oxford American.

Dilworth has participated as a nominator, juror, and portfolio reviewer for organizations and festivals such as the Aaron Siskind Foundation, Filter Photo, Hundred Heroines, Lenscratch, Los Angeles Center of Photography Reviews, Magnum Foundation, New England Portfolio Reviews, New York Portfolio Review, PhotoNOLA, PhotoPhilanthropy, Photoville/Fence, Photolucida/Critical Mass, Review Santa Fe, and The 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch.