ICW will host photographer Brad Temkin, who uses photographs to explore the delicate interdependence between people, infrastructure, and the natural water and land systems in the American West. This lively conversation will include a specific focus on the story of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and the Owens Valley, facilitated by Dr. Bill Deverell.

Brad Temkin is a photographer whose work has been exhibited internationally, including at The Field Museum, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Sivori Art Museum (Buenos Aires), the Southeastern Museum of Photography, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the George Eastman Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, among others. His photographs are held in the permanent collections of institutions such as The Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Amon Carter Museum, the George Eastman Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.                                                                                                                                

Temkin’s work has been featured in Aperture, TIME, Black & White Magazine, and European Photography. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017 and has received two Illinois Arts Council Fellowships (2007 and 2024). He is the author of three monographs: Private Places, Rooftop, and The State of Water. Temkin has taught photography at Columbia College Chicago since 1984 and continues to mentor emerging artists.