Michael Ensdorf
Professor Photography
Associate Dean College of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
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About Me

I helped develop the Journalism and Media Studies program at Roosevelt University in Chicago. In Roosevelt’s Department of Humanities I teach:

  • Film/Darkroom Photography
  • iPhoneography
  • Documentary Photography
  • Photobook History and Practice

My photographic work was included in the Iterations exhibition at the International Center of Photography in New York, and in the book of the same name published by MIT Press. My work was also included in the Photography after Photography exhibition, touring museums in Germany, Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, Finland, and finishing at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. My work is represented in the German and English editions of the book, Photography after Photography: Memory and Representation in the Digital Age, published by G+B Arts.

My work can be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. As founding director, I have developed the Gage Gallery at Roosevelt University into “Chicago’s premier space for showcasing contemporary critical social photo-documentary work.” (Michael Weinstein, NewCity, Chicago.)

Topic of Expertise
  • Photography

    History and practice

Education
  • MFA Studio Arts and Photography — University of Illinois