Faculty

Colin Stearns is a photographer and book maker based in New York City. His creative practice centers on the photobook as a vital form of artistic and historical expression, merging visual storytelling with archival research and personal narrative. He is the author of photobooks published by RITA BOOKS (2015) and KGP+ (2017), and since 2018 has self-published a range of experimental works in print, exploring the photobook as an independent and evolving medium.

Stearns’s photobooks are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the International Center of Photography Library, The New York Public Library, The New School Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, the Sloane Art Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Hellenic Centre for Photography in Athens, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and the Bethel University Library. His imprint, Nonlinear Books, has exhibited at France Photobook (Arles), Polycopies (Paris), the New York Art Book Fair/Printed Matter, and the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD).

He was a 2024–25 Fellow at the Graduate Institute of Design, Ethnography, and Social Thought (GIDEST) at The New School, where he also serves as Associate Professor of Photography.