Joni Sternbach

Joni Sternbach is a native New Yorker. She holds an M.A. in Photography from New York University/International Center of Photography. She has been a visiting artist at Cooper Union and is founding faculty at Penumbra Foundation where she currently teaches.

Sternbach uses both large format film and early photographic processes to create contemporary landscapes and environmental portraits. Her work centers on our relationship with water, contrasting some of the most desolate deserts in the American West to iconic surf beaches around the world. Her long-term projects involve the pursuit of understanding the western landscape and the series SurfLand, which captures portraits of surfers in tintype.

Sternbach's upcoming monograph is titled SURFBOARD, available October 2020