1. Robert and shana parkeharrison

2. Biographies Born: Robert: 1968 Shan: 1964
Hometown: Robert: Fort Leonard Wood, MO Shana: Tulsa, OK
Lives and Works: Great Barrington, MA
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Education: 
Robert ParkeHarrison:

MFA, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 1994
BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, 1990

Shana ParkeHarrison:

BFA, William Woods College, Fulton, MO, 1986

3. About them
Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison are a husband and wife duo who have been making photographs together for almost 20 years. Their work focuses on the relationship between humans and the environment—an idea that has only recently come to popularity with movements like the Go Green initiative and concepts like the carbon footprint. Using photogravure, collage, and painting techniques, the ParkeHarrisons create cinematic environments that explore how we interact with our natural surroundings. 

The ParkeHarrisons' work can be found in over 20 prestigious museum collections, and their book The Architect's Brother was named one of the ten best photography books by the New York Times in Recently the couple has begun working in sculpture—large dramatic pieces that complement the dreamy qualities of their photogravures.

4. Galleries
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL

5. Galleries cont. Select Permanent Collections
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, Il

6. style
My photographs tell stories of loss, human struggle, and personal exploration within landscapes scarred by technology and over-use…. [I] strive to metaphorically and poetically link laborious actions, idiosyncratic rituals and strangely crude machines into tales about our modern experience.
—Robert ParkeHarrison

7. style
Robert ParkeHarrison is a fine art/ surrealist photographer.  His work is a collaboration with partner and wife, Shana.  Robert showed up on the scene (in a big way) a little over a decade ago, with his book “The Architect’s Brother.”  The book was named one of ‘the Ten Best Photography Books of the Year’ of 2000 by the New York Times, but it probably wouldn’t be an understatement to call it one of the ten best of the decade.

8. The images evoke a kind of Terry Gilliam–esque feeling, but with just a little bit more magic and a little less color.  If Terry Gilliam took a lot Valium, I’m pretty sure this is what it would be like to live in his mind.
There is also a certain sadness to a lot of the work.  Many of the pieces feature one solitary man, in a black suit, taking on some seemingly impossible task.
“My photographs tell stories of loss, human struggle, and personal exploration within landscapes scarred by technology and over-use…. [I] strive to metaphorically and poetically link laborious actions, idiosyncratic rituals and strangely crude machines into tales about our modern experience.”
-Robert ParkeHarrison

9. suspention

10. Mourning cloak

11. Flying lesson

12. Stolen Summer

13. Emulation of “The lover”