Born in France.
Experience prior to coming to Rochester:
-certified professor in English and French
-free-lance photographer (modern dance, theater, jazz), photo-journalist and reporter (sports, arts & culture, photography, politics for the local daily press)
-photo-instructor, curator
-secretary of the Haute-Vienne Committee for Photography (since 1981)
-fine-art photographer (numerous solo and group exhibitions)
-post-graduate thesis on British photographer Bill Brandt
-team handball player (French National League 2 and 3 (ASPTT Limoges, Stade Clermontois), British National League 1 (Liverpool HBC)), coach (Women's National League 2 (ASPTT Limoges), Men's National League 3 (ASPTT Limoges)), referee.
Bruno Chalifour has been a Rochester resident since 1994 when he came from France to research the history of American landscape photography (on-going Ph D thesis).
In 1994-1995 he worked for Lauren Studios as a studio/wedding photographer and taught workshops at Community Darkroom while participating in the local art scene (Camera Rochester, Artists' Breakfast Group).
1996-present: free-lance photographer, photo critic and historian, curator, and instructor.
photo-instructor at Community Darkroom (Black & White, Ilfochrome printing, History of Photography, Landscape, Portrait, Social Documentary Photography, "From Snapshot to Series," "Teaching Photography," "the Photo Book"...
1999-2001: MFA, SUNY Buffalo
Experience in teaching photography at undergraduate and graduate level:
SUNY Buffalo (1999-2001), University of Rochester (2001-2002), Visual Studies Workshop (2002-2005).
2003-present: workshops at the Rencontres d'Arles (France) ![[WWW]](https://rocwiki.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small}
http://www.rencontres-arles.com
Editor of Afterimage magazine (Dec. 2002 to January 2005).
Numerous articles published in:
-Afterimage (Rochester, NY)
-Ciel Variable (Montreal, Canada)
-L'Echo (Limoges, France)
-Photofiles (National Centre of Photography, Sydney (Australia))
-www.photographie.com
-www.photophiles.com
-Photovision (USA)
-Réponses Photo (France)
To come:
-Inframince (National Superior School of Photography, Arles (France))
Numerous solo and group exhibitions (see http://www.brunochalifour.com).
Past and present affiliations and memberships:
-Albright-Knox Gallery (Buffalo, NY)
-Artists' Breakfast Group (past moderator) (Rochester, NY)
-CEPA (Buffalo, NY)
-Genesee Center for the Arts and Education (Rochester, NY)
-George Eastman House (Rochester, NY)
-International Center of Photography (New York, NY)
-Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester, NY)
-Rochester Contemporary (Rochester, NY)
-Memorial Art Gallery
-Museum of Modern Art (New York)
-Society for Photographic Education
