Geoffrey Beriner & Jolene Lupo

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GEOFFREY BERLINER is co-developer and the Executive Director of the Penumbra Foundation. A native New Yorker who was introduced to photography at an early age, his father was an artist, photographer and a public school teacher in New York City. His grandfather graduated from Cooper Union and went on to work for the New York Times as a photographer and photo retoucher. After leaving Harvard University with a Masters degree in religion, Geoffrey left academia to start his own business. After several years, the call of photography and especially large format and alternative photographic processes urged greater involvement in these practices.

JOLENE LUPO is a New York-based photographer and practitioner of historic photographic techniques. She earned a BFA in Photography from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2011 before working as a studio and fine art photographer. Her work focuses on the intersection between life, death, memory and loss. She has managed the Penumbra Tintype Studio since 2014.