The series by Maggie Shannon was selected by Thea Traff, Photo Editor, New Yorker, during portfolios reviews organized by The New York Chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP NY) on February 18th, 2015, in New York.
Maggie Shannon is a photographer based out of Brooklyn, NY and Martha’s Vineyard, MA. She is a graduate of the School of Visual Art’s 2013 MFA Photography, Video and Related Media program and received her BA in photography from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA in 2010. Maggie’s work has been featured in Martha’s Vineyard Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, and Nuvo among others. Her work has also been shown internationally in Boston, New York, Birmingham, England and Harare, Zimbabwe. She received an honorable mention in CCNY’s 2013 National Juried Competition by Juror Justine Kurland and was a winner of Magnum Photos 30 under 30 competition.
Swamp Yankee is a project documenting the Monster Shark Tournament, held originally on Martha’s Vineyard and now relocated to Newport, Rhode Island. I have a complex history with the event after growing up with it as a child on Martha’s Vineyard. However, by bringing these apex predators up from the deep, the fishermen are showing us something out of our own world, and that moment should be treasured, if carefully critiqued as I hope to show through my imagery.
