About

I began my visual story-telling practice at the Salt Center for Documentary Studies in Portland Maine. Later I worked as a photojournalist for the Ithaca Journal, a Gannett Paper. I then spent 8 years as staff photographer for Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. I went on to receive my MFA degree in Imaging Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology. As a graduate assistant of that program, I was a college photography instructor of record. After graduate school, I taught print media and photography classes at Edison Tech High School in Rochester, NY. Since moving to Minnesota, my focus has primarily been on documentary and portrait work. I’ve expanded into broadcast video contract work, shooting and editing. I love to visually document people and what we do. It continues to be the spark driving my photography and video work.

My fine art work is concerned with photography as a medium -how it conveys, preserves and destroys. My projects are image-based and I utilize a variety of mediums to explore different themes of memory and desire.

phone: 585-303-0832

email: nicola.kountoupes@gmail.com