Deb Achak born 1968, Montclair, NJ

  • 2024 "All the Colors I Am Inside," Winston Wächter Fine Art New York

    2024 "All the Colors I Am Inside," Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle

    2022 “Personal Space,” Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle

    2021 “My Eyes Need Beauty,” Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle

    2019 “Culture and Sea,” Blink, Seattle

    2018 “Culture and Sea,” Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle

    2017 “New Works,” Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle

    2017 “Ebb and Flow,” Red Ticking, Seattle

  • HONORABLE MENTION, Being Present, 26th Juried Photography Exhibit, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, 2024

    The Julia Margaret Cameron Award, 2023

    FINALIST, Critical Mass Top 200, Portland, OR, 2023

    FINALIST, Critical Mass Top 200, Portland, OR, 2021

    WINNING FILM, The Magic of a Second, Seattle International Film Festival, 2016

  • All the Colors I Am Inside, 2023, Kehrer Verlag

  • 2023 PHOTOFAIRS NYC, represented by Winston Wächter Fine Art

    2018 Seattle Art Fair, represented by Winston Wächter Fine Art

    2017 Seattle Art Fair, represented by Winston Wächter Fine Art

  • 2023 Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain

    2022 “Portrait Issue #114,” F-Stop Magazine

    2022 “Unconventional Portraiture,” Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY

    2022 “The NFT Collection,” Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY

    2022 “Women Street Photographers,” Artspace Gallery, New York, NY, Jurors: Gulnara Samoilova and Debra Klomp Ching

    2022 “Human/Nature Exhibition,” Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui Photography Museum, Lishui, China, Curator: Laura Moya, Director Photolucida

    2021 “Women Street Photographer,” National Museum of Anthropology, Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, Curator: Gulnara Samoilova and Polly Irungu

    2021 ”Human/Nature Exhibition,” Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui Art Museum, Lishui, China, Curator: Laura Moya, Director Photolucida

    2021 “Inaugural Virtual Exhibition,” Women’s Street Photographers, New York, NY, Curator: Gulnara Samoilova

    2021 “25th Anniversary Exhibition,” Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY

    2020 “Women Street Photographers,” Artspace Gallery, New York, NY, Juror: Gulnara Samoilova

    2020 “Summer Mood,” Topping Rose House, Bridgehampton, NY, Curator: Natasha Schlesinger

    2020 “The Heart Goes Nine,” Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, Rhode Island, Juror: J. Sybylla Smith

    2019 “Women Street Photographers,” Artspace Gallery, New York, NY, Juror: Gulnara Samoilova

    2019 “Women Street Photographers,” Sofia Photo Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria

    2018 “Women Street Photographers,” Artspace Gallery, New York, NY, Juror: Gulnara Samoilova

    2018 “Travel: Faces and Places,” PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, Juror: Krista Rossow

    2018 “World Water Day Photography Exhibition,” Seregno, Italy

    2018 “Color Space Contemporary Photography,” Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR, Juror: Todd Johnson

    2018 “Humans,” New York Center for Photographic Arts, New York, NY, Juror: Crista Dix

    2018 “Water,” PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, Juror: Ann Jastrab

    2018 Bridges Short Film Festival, Michael Schultheis: In the Studio, Stockholm, Sweden

    2017 “The Decisive Moment,” PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, Juror: Sam Abell

    2017 Short Film, Michael Schulties: In the Studio, Winston Wachter Fine Art Seattle

    2017 “Second Chances,” SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, Juror: Danae Males

    2017 “Artists for Progress,” Piranha Gallery, Seattle, WA, Curator: Jennifer Ament

    2017 “Glass,” New York Center for Photographic Arts, New York, NY, Juror: Traer Scott

    2017 “Color: The Visual Spectrum,” Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR, Juror: Todd Johnson

    2017 “Summertime” (three photographs selected), A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, Juror: Sandrine Hermand-Grisel

    2017 Online exhibition, “Fine Art Photography Awards,” conceptual and fine art categories, London, UK, Jurors: Tim Franco, Nadia Dias, Liza Van der Stock, Matilde Gattoni, Amélie Labourdette, Valery Klamm and Pierre Abensur

    2017 “Liquid,” New York Center for Photographic Arts, New York, NY, Juror: Debra Klomp Ching

    2017 “Intimate Portraits,” PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, Juror: Joyce Tenneson

    2017 Online exhibition, “The Mind’s Eye. All About Photo,” Merit Gallery, Jurors: Beatrice Chassepot, Julien Chatelin, James Dooley, Susan Dooley, Eileen Gittins, Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, Ann Jastrab, Aline Smithson, Judy Walgren, Sabine Weiss.

    2017 “Open Juried Exhibition,” Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT, Juror: Karen Haas

    2016 The Magic of a Second, Seattle International Film Festival

    2016 Short Film, Tracy Rocca: In the Studio, Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle

    2016 “Portraiture,” Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR, Juror: Kelli Pennington

    2016 “Home,” Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Santa Fe, NM, Jurors: Paula Tognarelli, Nancy Baron, Olivier Laurent, and Reid Callanan

    2016 “Portal,” SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, Juror: Lori Vrba

  • Santa FE Photographic Workshops, Santa Fe, NM

  • “Women Street Photographers,” edited by Gulnara Samoilova, Prestel Publishing, 2021, The Queue, pg 75. Print.

    “The Aquatic Street by Deb Achak,” All About Photo, February 2021

    “Deb Achak”, DESTIG Magazine, Best of 2020, Issue 09, January 2021, https://issuu.com/destig/docs/destig_toronto_red?fr=sNzNkMDI4MzI3MTc

    “Interview with Deb Achak,” UP Photographers, March 2020, https://upphotographers.com/interviews/interview-with-deb-achak/

    “Deb Achak’s Swimmer’s-eye View,” Art Zone with Nancy Guppy, February 2019, http://www.seattlechannel.org/ArtZone/segments?videoid=x102410

    “Inside a Strikingly Modern Tudor Home in Seattle,” MyDomaine Magazine, December 2018, https://www.mydomaine.com/modern-home-tour-seattle

    “Seductive Doom,” Real Life Magazine, June 2018. https://reallifemag.com/seductive-doom/https://reallifemag.com/seductive-doom/

    “The Queue,” City Arts Magazine, June 2018. https://www.cityartsmagazine.com/the-queue/

    * “Thirteen things to do in Seattle,” Crosscut Magazine, May 2018. https://crosscut.com/2018/05/13-things-do-seattle

    * “Nancy Guppy shares a weekend full of entertainment options,” New Day Northwest, May 2018.https://www.king5.com/video/entertainment/television/programs/new-day-northwest/nancy-guppy-shares-a-weekend-full-of-entertainment-options-new-day-nw/281-8131750

    “Inside a Medina, Washington Home,” Elle Decor, January 2018. https://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/house-interiors/a15873546/medina-washington-house-tour/

    Cover Photograph, Luxe Interiors and Design, Nov/Dec 2017. https://winstonwachter-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017_Achak_LuxeCover.pdf

    “A Designer’s Capitol Hill Seattle Home,” Apartment Therapy, October 2017. https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/house-tour-a-designers-capitol-hill-seattle-home-244625

    “This Photographer Transformed Her Attic Into an Office,” Domino Magazine, August 2017. https://www.domino.com/content/converted-attic-office/

    “She Told Us To Trust Our Intuition, by Deb Achak,” Fraction Magazine, Issue 99, June 2017. http://www.fractionmagazine.com/deb-achak

    “Photo of the Day,” Don’t Take Pictures, April 2017. http://www.donttakepictures.com/photo-of-the-day/2017/4/9/deb-achak?rq=deb%20achak

    “PHOTO AWARD: All About Photo Awards 2017,” be-Art Magazine, April 2017. https://beartmagazine.com/photo-award-photo-awards-2017/

    “The 2017 All About Photo Award Winners,” Lenscratch Fine Art Photography Daily, April 2017. http://lenscratch.com/2017/04/all-about-photo/

    “The Mind’s Eye,” All About Photo, March 2017. https://www.all-about-photo.com/all-about-photo-awards-2017-winners.php

  • White Cube/Black Coffee: Ep. 1 - Deb Achak. Podcast interview by Sofya Belinskaya. 2018.

    https://soundcloud.com/whitecubeblackcoffee/white-cube-black-coffee-ep1-deb-achak

  • University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, MSW

    University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, BA