EMMETT ORGASS PHOTOGRAPHY
Emmett Orgass is a photographer based in New York. He works in close collaboration with his subjects — in studios, in water, in borrowed spaces — drawn to the body as both sculpture and document: shaped by memory, environment, and experience. His practice spans large-format film to high-speed digital. Currently completing his MFA at Pratt Institute.
Available for editorial and commercial assignment.
NYC
35mmett.photo@gmail.com
LICENSING
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
2026 Shortlist, The Photography Foundation Awards, Portrait Category, London, UK 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 | |
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WORK
HENRY’S FLOWERS • portraiture, body, sculpture
shot on large format 4x5 film, medium format film, and digital.
Models: Henry Golden, Rachel Schooler, Emily Steates, Jake Bolster
JULIA AND OLIVIA • spec fashion shoot. B&W film is self-developed, and all film is self-scanned.
Models:Julia DeMaio and Olivia Rodrigues
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.
UNDER DURESS, WITH GRAVITY • touch, intimacy, grief, desire, experience, memory.
Models: Craig E., Meg M.
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.