Deborah Klochko was the Lawrence S. Friedman Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Museum of Photographic Arts from 2006-2023. She has taught, lectured and written extensively on photography and has curated more than 35 exhibitions throughout her career. Klochko was the executive editor of See, an award-winning journal of visual culture, and is the founder of Speaking of Light: Oral Histories of American Photographers. She is the author of Picturing Eden and co-authored both Moment of Seeing: Minor White at the California School of Fine Arts and Create and Be Recognized: Photography on the Edge, in addition to 15 other publications and numerous essays. Most recently, Klochko curated the traveling exhibition Moment in Time: A Collection of Photographs for Bank of America, The Time Between: The Sequences of Minor White, Encounters: Photographs by Jed Fielding, Storyteller: Work by Holly Roberts, and Picture This: Recent Acquistions.
Ms. Klochko received her Master of Arts in Teaching, Museum Education at George Washington University in Washington, DC and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the Visual Studies Workshop (SUNY) in Rochester, New York.
