FORA.tv Speaker - W.M. Hunt

W.M. Hunt is a new York-based collector, curator and consultant; a champion of photography. He is the Director of Photography at Ricco/Maresca Gallery in Chelsea. His Collection Dancing Bear consists of enigmatic images of people whose eyes cannot be seen. The collection has been profiled in The New York Times and on PBS. His The Walls of the Dancing Bear Cave is an upbeat, irreverent take on collecting which he has presented to museum groups in New York, Houston, Los Angeles and many other places around the country. Hunt began his career as a dealer/curator when he curated delirium for Ricco/Maresca later adapted into an issue of Aperture. He also serves on the Board of Directors for AIPAD (Association of International Photography Art Dealers), and adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts, and was the former chairman of Photographers and Friends United Against AIDS and is the current Chairman of the Center for Photography at Woodstock.