Hank Paper
Hank Paper is the recipient of a 2006 grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism for his exhibition, Ascension: The Journey of John Coltrane, which had a five-month exhibition at the African American Museum in Philadelphia. His work was chosen for Honorable Mention in Connecticut’s statewide juried show, Images 2007.
During the past year he has curated The Light at the End of the Tunnel, featuring the work of 16 noted photographers, at ALL Gallery in New Haven. He also exhibited 50 flash-less nightscapes from around the world, in a show called Night on Earth, at the ALeaf Gallery in New Haven.
His exhibit, Discrete American Narratives (with the painter Steve Di Giovanni) was spotlighted in the August-September, 2004 issue of Art New England. He has photographed around the world, and, in addition to the above, has had solo exhibits at the High Point Historical Museum in North Carolina (Grand Opening Exhibit), Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Morgenthal-Frederics Gallery in SOHO, the Tamarkin Leica Gallery in New York City, The Slifka Center at Yale University, and, in New Haven, The Atlantic Gallery, The Hilles Gallery, and The John Slade Ely House. His work has appeared in Hadassah Magazine’s “Jerusalem 3000” issue, Italy Italy Magazine. Scottish Life Magazine, Drift, The San Francisco Examiner and the L.A. Times Sunday Magazine.
Hank lives in Hamden, CT, with his wife, Lynn, and German shepherd, Bogart, who mostly appreciates black and white. The most beautiful "Papers" he's produced are his daughters, Djana and Jodi.[website]
