Emma Ressel

The Biodome at University of Arizona, Tucson, December 2025

Thanks so much for our lovely conversation about the work I’ve made with the film photo award. 🔗 Link to the interview in my bio 🔗 As I say at one point in our conversation, this is the best award that exists in photography. Get your application in this week!


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ALERT: YOUR PROPOSAL IS DUE IN 1 WEEK!! 💌

We’re also excited to share with you an interview between Student Project Award recipient, .ressel, and . Link in bio.

Check it out, get inspired, and submit your proposal for what you’re trying to make with a pile of film!

Next week I am giving a talk presenting my postdoctoral* research! Please join me in Zimmerman Library or on zoom Thursday, April 30th at 2pm. Last slide is a new lightbox I will be debuting at the talk.

*Because MFAs are terminal degrees we are eligible for postdocs

Extant Erosions is still on view at until January 4th! If you’re in Houston or headed there for the holidays, please go check it out and brings your friends and family! There are also some copies of the Extant Erosions book available at HCP.

Feeling so grateful for the opportunities I’ve had to show this work this year, especially in this beautiful space!

Please join me in Houston this Thurs Nov 20th for the opening of “Extant Erosions” at the !

✨Artist panel conversation with myself, , and : 5:30-6:15pm

✨Opening Reception: 6:15-8pm

✨On View: November 20th - January 4th

It was an epic experience to drive the frames and light table from the desert to warm, lush Houston. I’m grateful to have a chance to show some pieces in this project that have not been shown before, and bring my Whooping Crane pictures to where the Whooping Cranes live.

Also opening on Thurs are beautiful shows by and ! Come hang out with us.

On my way back from a very special weekend in Philly. So grateful to and for hosting and I for a lovely convo about our installations in the show “Enough Already: Photography and Excess”. The show is on view just a few more weeks until Nov 30th.

So happy to get one more glimpse of the beautiful show and dart around the city to see as many family and friends as possible. Finally tracked down Duchamp’s Étant donnés (last slide, I won’t reveal what’s in the peephole 🫣) and celebrated a marriage dressed as a blade of grass. Also visited the Academy of Sciences, ate delicious things with beloved people, and barely took photos per usual. Thank you so so much to everyone who has seen the show and celebrated with me. Go Birds! 🦅

More views of the light table and lightboxes in my thesis show 💡

Purpose of Record: Northrop Ressel Centennial Slide Collection, 2025

This all started with a collection of glass lantern slides that are housed in the geology collection at UNM and were used by Prof. Stuart A. Northrop to teach geology and paleontology 100 years ago. They are lost to time and no one knew much about them. I scanned the collection, re-fabricated them as larger, 8x10 glass slides, and displayed them on a 3x6ft light table that I built, as well as in lightboxes on the wall.

I “talked back” to the slide collection by adding personal photos from my own archive into the slides, including 35mm slides of lizards made by my dad and I many years ago.

Slide 2: Soda Dam Jemez
Slide 4: Ancient Ocean Diorama
Slide 5: Wingspan for Scale

For my 31st birthday I got to go to the and see my work in the new show “Enough Already: Photography and Excess”. Completely humbled to be around so many artists I admire. Both and I made installations to flank a Sarah Charlesworth diptych, and Andy Warhol’s family album polaroids are displayed on long tables in the same gallery. Many thanks to for dreaming this up! The show is up until Nov 30th, stay tuned for programming this fall.

Very thankful to get to be with my Philly friends and family for this surreal birthday and for joining from ABQ to fan the Leo birthday flames through epic rain and humidity ❤️‍🔥