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Allen Frame lives in New York where photography classes are taught in the “School of Visual Arts”, in the Pratt Institute, and in the “International Photography Center”. We also have photography workshops in Mexico and in Russia.

He graduated from Harvard University and moved to New York in 1977. His first solo exhibition in New York was in 1981 and since then he has had exhibitions in Paris, Budapest and Zurich among other places. He has worked in film and theater productions and as a curator of numerous exhibitions. He is a professor of photography at the International Center of Photography, School of Visual Arts and the Pratt Institute in New York. He has written articles for The New York Times and is a board member of the Tierney Foundation.

He grew up in the Mississippi Delta and has lived in New York for 25 years. He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Zurich, Paris, Budapest and Mississippi. Frame teaches photography at the School of Visual Arts, the International Center of Photography and the Pratt Institute. He is the contributing editor of www.artwurl.org, an online arts magazine and has been a guest curator of contemporary art spaces such as Art in General in New York and Delta Axis in Memphis. Throughout the 1990s, he toured internationally with the slide show Electric Blanket, a project he co-created for Visual AIDS. He recently completed a narrative short film entitled El tatuaje de Mateo.

Allen Frame’s photographs, neither posed nor represented, are intimate figurative scenes that evoke the psychological subtext of everyday experience. They are ambiguous situations that involve people he knows well and give him unusual access to their private lives, but who avoid documentary or diaristic concerns. While there are indications of narrative, photographs have less to do with storytelling than with moods and subtle changes in the atmosphere, mood and person in the realm of relationships. Real locations are like sets, which frame precisely the space loaded between figures. The exhibition is based on the work done during the last decade in New York and on his visits to Scandinavia, Europe, Russia and Mexico. Much of the work is included in its most recent publication, Detour (Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, Germany, 2001), and signed copies will be available through the gallery.

His work is a complex mixture of intimacy and personal problems of his characters.