Curriculum Vitae
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 The Lost Boys Series, Z Gallery Arts, Vancouver, B.C.
2017 The Playground Series, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID
2015 The Playground Series, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 International Photography Competition Exhibition, FMoPA, Tampa, FL
2017 Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography Exhibition, Malaga, Spain
2017 Neutral Density Photography Award
2016 4th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
2016 The Peter Urban Legacy Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2015 Trending: Contemporary Art Now!, Women’s Caucus
2015 Depth of Field, Art Intersection Gallery, Gilbert, AZ
2015 Fresh 2015, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 The Peter Urban Legacy Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2015 National Photographic Exhibition, PhotoSpiva, Joplin, MO
2015 Kolga Awards Exhibition, Kolga Tbilisi Photo, Tbilisi, Georgia
2015 The Playground Series, Black and White, F-Stop Magazine Online Exhibition
2015 Black and White 2015, The New York Center for Photographic Art, New York, NY
2014 Group exhibition, Galerie l’Aiguillage, Paris, France
2014 Fine Art & Documentary Photography Biennial, 6th Edition Pollux Awards, Malaga, Spain
2014 Next: New Photographic Visions, Castell Gallery, Asheville, NC
2014 Approaching the Unreal: Curator’s Voice Exhibition, Modernbook Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 Kolga Awards Exhibition, Kolga Tbilisi Photo, Tbilisi, Georgia
2014 Natural World, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2014 The Royal Easter Show, New Zealand
2014 The Auckland Festival of Photography, New Zealand
2014 Virtual Gallery Exhibition, the Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA
Special Projects
2016 to the Present - Collaboration: The International Collaboration Project + Beekman 1802 Boys
Selected Awards
2020 Merit Award, All About Photo - The Mind’s Eye, 2020 Awards
2018 First Place, 12th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, non-professional series digital manipulation and collage, Barcelona, Spain
2018 Third Place, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts International Photography Competition, Tampa, FL
2017 Finalist, Biennial Grant, May 2017 Edition of The Fine Art and Documentary Photography
2017 First Place, People: Non-Professional Category, Moscow International Foto Awards, Moscow, Russia
2017 Gold, People: Children Category, Moscow International Foto Awards, Moscow, Russia
2017 Bronze, Portfolio Fine Art, Moscow International Foto Awards, Moscow, Russia
2017 First Place, Fine Art Division, Neutral Density Photography Awards*
2017 Honorable Mention, Fine Art Conceptual and People: Children Categories, Neutral Density Photography Awards
2016 Top 50, Critical Mass, Photolucida, Portland, OR
2016 First Place, 9th Annual Julia Margaret Cameron Award Winner, The 4th Biennial of Fine Art Photography, Berlin, Germany
2015 Second Place, Fine Art Photography Division, Moscow International Foto Awards, Moscow, Russia
2015 Second Place, Fine Art Photography Division, International Photography Awards*
2014 Awarded International Photographers of the Year, Fine Art & Documentary Photography Biennial, 6th Edition Pollux Awards, Malaga, Spain
2014 First Place, Children Category, Fine Art & Documentary Photography Biennial, 6th Edition Pollux Awards, Malaga, Spain
2014 First Place, Alternative Processes and Digital Manipulation Category, Fine Art & Documentary Photography Biennial, 6th Edition Pollux Awards, Malaga, Spain
2014 Third Place, Landscapes and Seascapes Category, Fine Art & Documentary Photography Biennial, 6th Edition Pollux Awards, Malaga, Spain
2014 Most Successful Photographers of the Show Award, The Royal Easter Show, New Zealand
2014 First Place, The Auckland Winter Festival, New Zealand
2014 First Prize Winner, “Rural Impressions” Exhibition, New York Center for Photographic Arts, New York, NY
2014 Gold Medal Winner, International Photography Exhibition, Gallery Photographica, San Francisco, CA
2014 Honorable Mention, Approaching the Unreal Exhibition, Modernbook Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Bibliography
Frank Diaz & Deb Young’s Playground Series Illustrates “A World Without Children” in The Point Magazine, issue 20, September, 2019
Frank Diaz & Deb Young: profiled in Creativ Magazine issue 31, April, 2019
Frank Diaz & Deb Young: included in F-Stop Magazine’s curated Group Exhibition - Animals, April, 2019
”Frank Diaz & Deb Young: Suspicion” Rfotofolio magazine, February, 2019
“The Lost Boys Series” Musée Magazine, September 2018
“The Playground Series” Musée Magazine, August 2018
“Frank Diaz & Deb Young, The Lost Boys” The Eye of Photography, April 2018
“Frank Diaz & Deb Young: The Lost Boys” Galleries West Magazine, March 2018
"The International Collaboration Project in Fossils of Light + Time", The Eye of Photography, October 2017
“International Collaboration Project: Photographers Finding Success Together” FStoppers, September 2016
“If Fairytale Creatures Came to Life, This is What They’d Look Like” Feature Shoot Magazine, October 2016
“The Playground Series” Adore Noire Magazine, Canada, October 2016
“The Mysterious, Innocent Complexity of the Playground” Feature Shoot Magazine, August 2016
“Misterios del Campo de Juego” Alternópolis, August 2016
“International Collaboration Project” Blur Magazine, Croatia, August 2016
“22nd Juried Show: The Peter Urban Legacy Exhibition” Boston Globe, August 2016
“Deb Young y Francisco Díaz nos Muestran el Lado Oscuro de los Patios de Juegos” MOR.BO, July 2016
“ Ένας παράξενος κόσμος με ανήσυχα παιδιά” Lifo Magazine, Greece, July 2016
“International Collaboration Project” Silvershotz Magazine, Australia, June 2016
“The International Collaboration Project: The Playground Series” Bleek Magazine, Russia, June 2016
“Interview with Photographers Deb Young and Frank Diaz” Monovisions Photography Magazine, June 2016
“Meeting the Team Behind the International Collaboration Project” D-Photo Magazine, New Zealand, May 2016
“The Playground Series” Positive Magazine, Italy, April 2016
“Frank Diaz & Deb Young’s The International Collaboration Project” Hi-Fructose, March 2016
“Montclair Photographer's Work a Global Collaboration” Inside Jersey, March 2016
“Fossils of Light + Time” Elizabeth Avedon Journal, September 2015
“Competition 2015 Issue,” the Photo Review Magazine, 2015
“Open Theme Exhibition” F-Stop Magazine Issue 72, August 2015
“Best of Photography 2015” Photographer’s Forum
“The International Collaboration” F-Stop Magazine issue 65, June 2014
“Enlightenment of a Shared Curiosity: The International Collaboration Project” RFOTOFOLIO, February 2014
“Frank Diaz: International Collaboration” Lenscratch Magazine, January 2014
“Some Other Realities” the Photo Review Magazine , 2014
“The International Collaboration” PH Magazine
“The Playground Series” Float Magazine
“The International Collaboration Project” Featured in book, Fossils of Light + Time
“The Playground Series by Francisco Diaz & Deb Young” Dodho