Susan Todd-Raque gave us insights on what to consider when collecting photography, such as processes and context, plus give us ten points to remember as we build our photography collections.

Susan’s also written a thoughtful, no-frills book on collecting photography. It’s available here.

Live with the art that moves you! Through a series of informal talks by art experts and collectors, our Art Collector Insights series offer both new and established art collectors a way to learn about different art forms, how to build an art collection, and how to care for that collection.

June 15, 7-8:30pm EST, 2022, at the Cross-Pollination Art Lab Gallery
2640 Lindbergh Lane NE, Atlanta, GA 30324 (Get directions here.)
Fee: free

If you can’t attend in person, please join us via Zoom.

Co-founder of Atlanta Celebrates Photography and Idea Capital, Susan Todd-Raque has taught at The Atlanta College of Art, Georgia State University, Emory University and Spelman College. As a guest lecturer, she has talked about art at The High Museum of Art, The Michael C. Carlos Museum, Google as well as at national academic conferences on art. Todd-Raque has served on the boards of Photo Forum at The High, Georgia Lawyers for the Arts and Art Papers. Her published work includes an extensive essay on Southern photography in The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Photography. As an independent curator, she has produced: Sylvia Plachy at Mason Murer Fine Art, The Seasoned Eye: Works by Robert Alter, Lucinda Bunnen, and Chip Simone at The Seen Gallery; Responding to Home at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia and at the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala; Black Belt Color: Photographs of Selma by Jerry Siegel at Terminus; What’s Happening Now: The Cell Phone Photography Project and I See You. Do You See Me? both exhibitions co-curated with Christian Bradley-West at CherryLion; Rusty Miller: The Compassionate Eye at the City of Atlanta’s Gallery 72. The City of Atlanta acquired 15 of Rusty Miller’s prints.

Currently, Todd-Raque is the curator of several private museums in Buckhead and Los Angeles as well as curating/producing art projects at Georgia Public Broadcasting. In the fall of 2022, she will be curating a photography exhibition about mental health challenges faced by anonymous Atlantans at the City of Atlanta’s Gallery 72.

Collecting Photography with Susan Todd-Raque