American Photography Institute

American Photography Institute’s National Graduate Seminar was established by Cheryl Younger in 1990. For the past ten years, this unprecedented academic and social experiment has been supported by New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Each year, twenty graduate students in photography from different regions of the United States are invited to spend three weeks in intensive seminars driven by thematic topics presented by a diverse group of artists, scholars, curators, critics, and others in and out of the culture of American photography. The API Seminar is one of the most daring efforts in American photographic education, and each year, its participants are charged by Younger to accept responsibility for the future of photography and education in America.