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Christine Elfman received her MFA from California College of the Arts, and BFA from Cornell University. Her interest in ephemerality has been influenced by family photographs and her work with historic collections at the George Eastman House, University of Rochester Rare Books Library, and the Berkeley Art Museum. She has worked with and taught experimental photographic processes for over 15 years, beginning with the wet-plate collodion and albumen printing processes as an intern for France Scully Osterman in Rochester, NY. She has had solo exhibitions at Penumbra Foundation (New York), Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, University of the Arts (Philadelphia), Gallery Wendi Norris (San Francisco) and Somarts (San Francisco). Awards include a Light Work Grant in Photography, Penumbra Workspace Residency, Saltonstall Foundation Residency, and San Francisco Artist Award. Her work has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, Photograph Magazine, Der Greif, Loupe Magazine, Humble Arts Foundation, SF Weekly, and other publications. Elfman has taught art at Bowdoin College, Cornell University, San Francisco Art Institute, and lives in Upstate New York.

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