Russell Hart is an American photographer, writer and teacher based in Lexington, Virginia. He grew up in Charlottesville, where his father taught at the University of Virginia, and earned a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.
For 25 years he worked at American Photographer, later American Photo, where he was executive editor from 2000 to 2011. He has also written about photography for The New York Times and other publications, taught at Tufts and the Boston Museum School, and teaches in the Master’s program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His writing won the Griffin Museum of Photography’s Scribe Award.
His book As I Found It: My Mother’s House (Kehrer Verlag) began when he cleared his mother’s house after dementia forced her to leave it. Its 58 duotone photographs show her rooms and the collections she kept in hundreds of boxes. The project led to Microcosm, a series of large color panoramic prints of tiny objects. He has also photographed in India, Scotland, Cuba and Greece.
His work has been shown at the DeCordova Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Griffin Museum of Photography, and he has received three traveling fellowships from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
