EMMETT ORGASS PHOTOGRAPHY

Focused on memories of touch, intimacy, and stress. Interested in dreams, place, and environment. Open to editorial, documentary, and
concept work. Always curious.  

NYC/SEATTLE

35mmett.photo@gmail.com

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Education

2025–27 MFA Photography, Pratt Institute, NYC
2024–25 Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle WA 
2017–21 B.A., Hamilton College, Clinton NY


Selected Exhibitions

2026  Solas Gallery, Northwest Current, Seattle, WA 

2025  Steuben Hall, Field Study, Brooklyn, NY 

2025  Pratt Institute, Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY

2025  CICA Museum, Text-ure, Gimpo, South Korea

2024  Shutter and Light Collective, In Transit, Seattle WA

2024  Chappin Eze & Seattle Restored, Show Me Your Seattle, Seattle WA

2024  Photographic Center Northwest, Being Present, Seattle WA

2024  Caffe Vita, Espresso and Exposures, Seattle WA



Awards

2024  Show Us Your World, King County and Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA

2024  2nd Place, Photographic Center Northwest, Being Present, Seattle, WA

2020  Grand Prize, School for Field Studies Annual Photo Competition

Online & In Print


2025 ANALOG 0002, Perfect Image Camera, Lancaster, PA 

2025 Self-Published, The Dixter Huts (zine)

2024  Photographic Center Northwest, A Place to Grow and Shape Your Work

2024  @weopen Review

2024  Self-Published, Fabric on Water (zine) 

2024  Self-Published, Batters in the Bullpen (zine)

2024  Cusper Magazine, Lost in Time

2024  No Demo, “Funeral” (album art)

2024  Oli Watkins, “Fallin’ Over Myself” (album art) 

2023  Self-Published, Arrive for the Opener (zine)

2022  Self-Published, Planetary Disco (zine)

Curating

2025  Field Study, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2025  Broadway x Union, Stoup Capitol Hill, 
Seattle WA

Skills
Photoshop
Capture One
Adobe Suite
Film Development
Film Scanning
Figma
SEO
Content Strategy
Event Planning
Storytelling
Digital Analytics
Public Engagement
Power Tools
Problem Solving
Conflict Resolution
Employment Writer & Content Producer 
Columbia University
School of Professional Studies 
2025

Bartender 
Stoup Brewing 
2024–2025

First Mate
Lake Union Sailing Charters
2023—2025

Marketing and Design Coordinator 
Raise Green 
2023–2024

Communications Assistant Scoville PR
2022–2023

Line Cook
Humble Pie 
2022

Bartender
Our Town Brewery
2021–2022



WORK


UNDER DURESS, WITH GRAVITY • touch, intimacy, grief, desire, experience, memory.  

Models: Craig E., Meg M.




UNDER THE MASC • an exploration of masculinities and identities  

"Under the Masc" explores my earliest memories of masculinity. When I made these photographs, I was thinking about a childhood memory I have of walking into a friend’s garage to find his father skinning and gutting a deer he had killed. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, I came to associate men with animal death in this way, but grew to understand the necessity of the practice for the community, and to recognize what a privilege it is to never have to dirty one’s hands with the blood of one's own food.

For these photographs, I projected images of butchered cattle and mass-caught fish onto the bodies of men. These images are my memories projected onto other people, just as we all project our perceptions onto others.  These images are products of the male gaze and do not constitute a defense of men.

Shot on a Maymiya RZ67, self-developed and scanned.

Models: Dominick Leskiw, Craig E., Hunter O., self.  


JULIA AND OLIVIA • spec fashion shoot. B&W film is self-developed, and all film is self-scanned.  

Models:Julia DeMaio and Olivia Rodrigues




FABRIC ON WATER • in the particular contains the  universal

42” x 60” prints on uncoated bond paper
Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

work from Lake Washington, WA
2024–2025




WET AND COLD BETWEEN THE EYES • series in the water & under the water, using waves as a dynamic variable to produce ephemeral portraits  

Model: Dominick Leskiw



OLI WATKINS + SCOUT • AN ALBUM COVER AND PROMOTIONAL SHOOT FOR COLORADO-BASED MUSICIAN OLI WATKINS

Models: Oliver Watkins, Scout (the dog)



ENTANGLED

Model: Vic Luna

MISCELLANEOUS PORTRAITURE


SURFACE TENSION • in the water, together • breathe, embrace, touch, sink, float



BODYSCANS • handheld scanner + environmental survey • always be looking


DREAM COMPOSITION • shooting a roll of expired film, taking it out, reloading it, shooting it again. double exposures the long way.