Allan Sekula is a photographer, writer and critic. His published books are Photography Against the Grain, Fish Story, Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes and Dismal Science with The Traffic In Photographs forthcoming from MIT Press. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Folkwang Museum in Essen, the Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver, the University Art Museum at Berkeley, Witte de With in Rotterdam, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Tramway in Glasgow, Le Channel and the Muse des Beaux Arts in Calais, Camerawork in London, Munich Kunstverein in Munich, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels and the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, the Getty Research Institute, the Deutsche Akademischer Austausdienst and the Atelier Calder.