GEOFF WINNINGHAM
Still Photographer, Filmmaker and Journalist
Geoff Winningham is an internationally recognized artist in the field of Photography . He received a bachelor's degree in English from Rice University in 1965, a master's degree from Institute of Design in Chicago in 1968 and he joined the faculty of the Department of Art and Art History at Rice University in 1969. In 1977 he joined the Houston Ballet as company photographer a position he still holds.
He has written and photographed numerous magazine articles, most often for Esq
uire, Texas Monthly, and Travel & Leisure. His photographs are in most major collections in the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the major art museums of Texas. He has published many books of his work including In the Eye of the Sun: Mexican Fiestas (Norton & Co:1996). Winningham has produced three documentary films.
He began traveling to Mexico in 1980. Today, Winningham lives part of the year in Pozos where he has a home with a darkroom and studio, classroom and gallery space. He continues to photograph extensively in Mexico, both in color and in black and white, mixing view camera work with smaller formats, as his attention has turned increasingly to the landscape. He also continues to teach in the Department of Art and Art History at Rice University and to offer workshops each summer in Mexico through Other Americas.