Exhibit Details
About the Artist
Ira Wagner began studying photography in 2008, after working on Wall Street for more than 25 years. With an interest in urban history, architecture and design, he has focused on photographing the urban landscape. He received his MFA from the Hartford Art School in 2013 and is currently teaching photography at Monmouth University in New Jersey. For his MFA project, he spent two years photographing the landscape of the Bronx. Since graduating, he has completed his project titled Houseraising, photographing houses being raised on the Jersey Shore following Hurricane Sandy. This project was featured in The New Republic, The National Geographic, and was released in a photobook by Daylight Books in 2018. In 2018, he received an artist grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He is currently working on a number of projects including photographing twinhouses in the Great Northeast in Philadelphia, “Acela” – the landscape along the Northeast Corridor train route between New York and Washington, Manhattan's Highline, and Chaco Canyon in New Mexico in platinum palladium prints

