Margaret Moulton

Contact & Info

  • mfmoulton@gmail.com

Artist Statement

Margaret Moulton has worked as a fine art and editorial photographer, an educator and an arts administrator for more than 20 years. Most recently, her work was included in "Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography," on view at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.(Read the <ahref="http: www.nytimes.com="" 2010="" 05="" 28="" arts="" design="" 28women.html?pagewanted="2"" target="_blank">New York Times review that singles out her work. ) As the Senior Photographer for the Palo Alto WeeklyMargaret won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for her photo essays and feature photography. Moulton has also worked as the Curator of Education at the Ansel Adams Center for Photography, and the Public Programs Manager at the Hudson River Museum, as well as teaching photography at Stanford University and Mills College. She is the author and photographer of The Western Gardener’s Journal, published by Chronicle Books. She currently works as a freelance photographer and writer in the Hudson Valley. In her photographs, human expression both hides and betrays emotions, and the wooded tangle screens views into the forest at the same moment that it reveals its most intricate details. Margaret looks for moments that mostly go unnoticed, whether they are people’s in-between expressions and gestures, or obscured scenes in the forest undergrowth. It is the sensing, not the sight; the feeling of a reality lurking just beyond what we can see. Margaret’s photographs are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as well as private collections around the United States and in Europe. Margaret holds a B.A. in Philosophy from The Colorado College, and an M.F.A. from Mills College.

Educational Background

MFA, Mills College, Oakland, CA - Photography