Joseph Labate is an assistant
professor and the Chair of the Photography Division in the School of Art
at the University of Arizona. Labate’s artwork and his teaching focus on
the use of digital technology as applied to the medium of photography. He
has a B.S. in engineering from Clarkson University, a B.F.A. in
photography from Massachusetts College of Art, and an M.F.A. in
photography from the University of Arizona.
Labate is a recipient of a Visual Arts Fellowship from the
Arizona Commission on the Arts, an Artist’s Grant from the Contemporary
Forum of the Phoenix Art Museum, and an Artist’s Grant from
Polaroid of Tokyo, Japan. He has exhibited and taught photography
nationally and internationally.
Joseph
Labate's
work is in many private and public collections including the Center for
Creative Photography, the Tucson Museum of Art, the SnellWilmer
Collection, the Streitch Lang Collection, the
Weeks Gallery and Roussenski
Lom National Park in Bulgaria.