Working within the documentary tradition, Stacy Kranitz makes photographs and films that acknowledge the limits of representation. Her work does not tell the “truth” but is honest about its inherent shortcomings, and thus reclaims these failures (exoticism, ambiguity, fetishization) as sympathetic equivalents in order to more forcefully convey the complexity and instability of the lives, places, and moments they depict.

Stacy has received a Pulitzer Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work. Her photographs are in several public collections, including the Harvard Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, and the National Gallery of Art. She works on assignment for publications including Time, the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, the Atlantic, ProPublica, and Mother Jones.