Arlene Collins, Mansu Hill Grand Monument, Pyongyang, North Korea, 2013, 1/5, Archival Pigment Print, 15 × 21 inches

Arlene Collins is a New York City based photographer who specializes in documenting the changing civilizations of people & cultures living in remote areas of the world, where she thrives on photographing in challenging environments and situations.

She has produced and lead international photography workshops to over 20 destinations including Papua New Guinea, Iran, Russia, Greenland, Mongolia, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.

She co-curated the Second Image of the Silk Road Photography Biennial in Tianshui, China. She has taught numerous workshops throughout the world, including in Lahore, Pakistan; at ROSPHOTO the Russian State Museum of Photography in St. Petersburg, Russia; the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, the Fototeca de Cuba in Havana, and the Three Shadows Center for Art & Photography in Beijing, China.

Her North Korean photographs were featured on www.L’Oeil de la Photographie.com and she contributed to the publication ‘Workshop Stories changed through photography”. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the City Museum of New York.

She studied photography with Lisette Model and is included in the Model Monograph. In New York City she taught in the International Center of Photography documentary and photojournalism program and is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Photography at Parsons School of Design and in the summer teaches at the Maine Media Workshops.