I’ve been taking photographs since I landed my first camera while traveling through the Middle East and Asia in the 1970s. Much of my work has focused on other places and cultures, among them Cuba, Myanmar, and Europe. My photographs have been exhibited in Vermont, New Hampshire, Boston, and New York City. Past shows have included Transcending the Limits of Age (portraits of track and field athletes of advanced age); The Combination (focusing on the amateur boxer Ali Watson); Sunset Park, Brooklyn (two days in the life of a city park); Eli’s Town (“seeking family roots in Ukraine and finding kindness and brutality in ordinary places”); Women of Myanmar (beauty and dignity in a troubled land); and ¡Conga! (exuberant images of dancers, musicians, athletes and others in Havana, Cuba).
I live in Middlesex, Vermont. For purchasing inquiries and other information, please contact me by email at eburg4@gmail.com or by phone at (802) 272-4920.
Exhibitions
February 1987—T.W. Wood Art Gallery, Montpelier, Vermont—Kingdoms of the Sun, black-and-white portraits from Bolivia in a three-person, three-media exhibition
June-July 1990—Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont—“La Chica y la Paloma (Girl and Dove)” (photograph taken in Circuata, Bolivia), selected for Vermont Selections ’90 exhibition
August 2013—Burlington College, Burlington, Vermont—Cuba: Street Level, 11-person show of street photographs from Cuba
May-June 2014—Central Vermont Medical Center, Berlin, Vermont—Two Paths, One Vision, photographic portraits from Bolivia, Cuba and Myanmar in a joint exhibition with portrait artist August Burns
December 2014—Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont—annual members’ show
January-March 2015—Chandler Center for the Art, Randolph, Vermont—Art of Place, multi-artist show
July-August 2015—Salmagundi Club, New York City—“El Dominó (Dominos)” (photograph taken in Havana, Cuba), Salmagundi Annual Juried Photography and Graphics Exhibition for Non-Members
August 2015—Vermont Sports Magazine, article entitled “Golden Girls Go for the Gold,” with photographs, describing the track and field exploits of senior athletes Flo Meiler and Barbara Jordan
October 2015—Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, Vermont—Transcending the Limits of Age at the 2015 National Senior Games, solo show of black-and-white portraits of track and field athletes in their 70s, 80s and 90s
December 2015—Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont—annual members’ show
2015-16—Montpelier, Vermont—periodic group shows by the f/7 photographers’ collective, including Objets d’Art, Water, Simplicity, Autumn, and Going Places
January-February 2016—Flynn Space, Burlington, Vermont—winner of Vermont Stage’s Mothers and Sons photo competition with “August & Asher at the Piano”
January-March 2016—Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire—Transcending the Limits of Age at the 2015 National Senior Games, solo show
June 2016—Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont—“All Quiet on the Nam Ou River” (photograph from Laos), The Healing Power of Art juried exhibition
June-August 2016—Langdon Street, Montpelier, Vermont—Langdon Street Alive (three 6’x 8’ black-and-white photographs of senior athletes selected to be displayed on a 22’- long banner on the outside wall of the Onion River Sports building)
August 2016—Photograph entitled “Palaung woman, Myanmar” accepted into second round of the annual Taylor Wessing Photoprize at the National Gallery, London (346 of 4,303 entries reached that round)
August 2016—Vermont Festival of the Arts, Round Barn Photo Show, Waitsfield, Vermont, Honorable Mention for “Bakery, Havana, Cuba”
December 2016—Three black-and-white photographs—entitled “Petals of Blood,” “Protesting Racist Justice E.D. White,” and “Stop”—accepted into juried exhibition entitled Photography as Social Conscience: Impassioned Portrayals of Race in the United States at the Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
December 2016—Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont—annual members’ show
March-April 2017—Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, Vermont—Sunset Park, Brooklyn, solo show of black-and-white photographs
April-August 2017—University of Vermont Davis Center, Burlington, Vermont—The Combination, a series of black-and-white photographs of Ali Watson, a University senior and dedicated amateur boxer, in training and defending her title at the 2017 New England Golden Gloves tournament
June-September 2017—Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston—14 black-and-white prints of senior track and field athletes from Transcending the Limits of Age accepted for display by the hospital’s “Illuminations” art program
August-December 2017—Fletcher Allen Hospital, Burlington, Vermont—three photographs accepted for display by Burlington City Arts
January-February 2018—T.W. Wood Art Gallery, Montpelier, Vermont—Seven Ways of Seeing, a joint show with f/7 group of photographers (eight portraits of women from around the world)
January 16, 2018—publication in the online edition of Moment, a leading Jewish cultural magazine co-founded by Elie Wiesel, of Eli’s Town, http://www.momentmag.com/photo-essay-elis-town/, a collection of photographs and text recounting the search for the birthplace of my grandfather in Ukraine and the massacre of the Jews there by the Nazis (also archived at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC)
July 2018—Capitol Grounds, Montpelier, Vermont—solo show, Heart and Eye, black-and-white photographs of Europe
September-November 2018—Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, Portland, Oregon—solo show, Eli’s Town
June 2019—Center for Justice & Accountability (human rights organization) fundraiser, New York City—portraits of women in Myanmar
June-July 2019—The Outrage (retail store), Washington, DC—Resistance! (portraits of participants in the national Women’s Marches)
July-September 2019—Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire— ¡Conga! (Images of Havana)
September 2019—Valley Arts Photography Show, Waitsfield, Vermont—Certificate of Merit for photo A-Dog Skatepark, Burlington, Vermont
September 2019-January 2020—University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, Vermont—Heart and Eye, black-and-white photographic portraits from Cuba, Myanmar, Ukraine and the United States
November 2019—North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, Vermont—Tortuga, a photo-documentary presentation on sea turtle conservation at the Sirenito Macho station in Marquelia, Mexico
November-December 2019—T.W. Wood Art Gallery, Montpelier, Vermont—¡Conga!, images of Havana, Cuba
February, March and September 2021—on Zoom and in person through the Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, Vermont; Lamoille Neighbors; and the University of Vermont’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute—Heart and Eye, an image-rich presentation on my approach to photography, my methods and my artistic values
May 2021—National Council on Aging, Age + Action 2021 Gallery Showcase Honorable Mention for All Out, a photograph of three female sprinters in their 80s at the National Senior Games
June-August 2021—North Branch Café, Montpelier, Vermont—Women of Myanmar, photographic portraits of women from various ethnic groups in Myanmar
August 2021—Diversia 2021 online exhibition—two photographs (Steps and Watching the Big Guys Play) selected for Diversia: Youth International online exhibition
October-December 2021—Burlington (Vermont) International Airport—¡Conga!, images of Havana, Cuba
October-December 2021—Waterbury (Vermont) Congregational Church—joint show Awakening with f/7 group (very large format photographs)
August-September 2022—Capitol Region Visitors Center, Montpelier, Vermont—Tunbridge Fair, exhibition of black-and-white photographs taken at the iconic country fair in Tunbridge, Vermont
October 2022—Second Place, Axel’s Gallery Photography Shoot-Out, Waterbury, Vermont, for “The Bean Sculpture”
October-December 2022—Rotunda, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire—Tunbridge Fair, exhibition of black-and-white photographs
November 2022—Photograph Havana Skateboarder selected for “People 2022” international online group exhibition
December 2022—Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, Vermont—Eli’s Town photo-essay exhibited in connection with Together, a Holiday Concert for Ukraine
March 2023—Mad River Valley Arts, Waitsfield, Vermont—Reflecting on Reflections, joint show with f/7 photography group
April 2023—San Francisco Museum of Modern Art—Trelew, Reflections on a Massacre, an exhibit of photographic portraits (projected, with accompanying text) taken in Argentina in August 2022 during the 50th anniversary of the infamous Trelew Massacre perpetrated by that country’s military dictatorship
October 2023—Downtown Montpelier, Vermont—Montpelier Strong, public display of black-and-white photographs of the volunteer effort following major flooding in the city in July 2023
Current—Work as a consultant and photographic curator for a PhotoVoice Project on farmers—particularly women farmers—and the need for child care, through Ohio State University
March 2024—Vermont State House, Montpelier, Vermont—Recovery, with Shannon Alexander, exhibition of photographs of the aftermath of the catastrophic flooding in Montpelier and Barre in July 2023
June-August 2024—North Branch Café, Montpelier, Vermont—Bandstand!, a retrospective exhibit of photographic portraits of performers and audience members at the Middlesex Bandstand summer concert series
June-September 2024—City Hall, Burlington, Vermont—Tunbridge Fair, exhibition of black-and-white photographs of Vermont’s iconic country fair
August 2024—Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, Vermont—Montpelier Strong, photographs of some of the many volunteers who rushed to help Vermont’s capital city recover from major flooding in July 2023