Participating Artists

Del Zogg is an independent curator, author, and consultant on photography and a collector of fine art photographs. He retired from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in September of 2015 where he served as the Collections Manager for the Prints, Drawings, and Photographs collections. Before moving to Houston, he was the Senior Cataloguer for the Photographic Collections at the George Eastman House (now the George Eastman Museum). At both collections, over a career spanning over 35 years, Zogg has spent his working life intimately involved with large, encyclopedic photographic collections.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master’s degree from Syracuse University. His photographs are part of the permanent collection of several museums and held in numerous private collections.

Mr. Zogg has been involved in portfolio reviews at several major events, such as the FotoFest Biennial, Houston, TX; Atlanta Celebrates Photography; PhotoNOLA; and Photo Lucida’s Critical Mass. He was pleased to be asked to write the introductions for books by Lori Vrba [The Moth Wing Diaries, Daylight Books, 2015], and Susan Burnstine [Absence of Being, Damiani Editore, 2016]. Mr. Zogg has served as Juror for exhibitions at the Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, CO, Still Life 2015; and at the SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, Monochrome 2017.

During his career, he curated exhibitions for the George Eastman House and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and is still actively involved with both organizations on an advisory level. Mr. Zogg is also a member of the national advisory council for the Houston Center for Photography, and was recently elected to their Friends & Founders Circle. He is also a former member of The Light Factory’s exhibitions and benefit auction committees.