Tina Schula is a freelance portrait photographer, filmmaker and artist. After studying film in London she moved to New York in 1999 to continue directing shorts, dance films and music videos. Schula’s imagery is strongly informed by her love of cinema and blends the lines between fact and fiction, documentary, portraiture and staged photography.

In her personal work Tina constructs complex narrative tableaux which explore human behavior in moments of crisis. Her series ‘Ratline’ was shown at Scope Basel and was included in The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Volume 2, published by Humble Arts Foundation, New York. Her project ‘Radical Camp’ was released into a book and presented at the MOMA PS1 Art Book Fair in New York.

Tina’s work has been published internationally including The New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Daily Beast, Vice, Nylon, OjodePez, PDN and Whitewall Magazine, among others. Her shorts and music videos for Cheap Records, Vienna, have been aired on MTV, VIVA Germany, Sonar Music Festival and Portobello Filmfestival.

Selected group exhibitions and awards include The New York Times Portfolio Review, LensCulture Exposure Awards, London, Photo Lucida Critical Mass, The Fence Photoville NY, Scope Basel, The Chelsea Art Museum, Klompching Gallery, NY and others.

Tina currently lives between New York and Vienna.

Awards

Finalist at The NYT Portfolio Review, NY

Finalist at The LensCulture Exposure Awards, London

Finalist at Critical Mass

Finalist at The Fence, Photoville, NY

Finalist at The 86th International Photo Competition, The Print Center, PA

Winner of Fresh 2011, Photography Contest, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Recipient of The Camera Club New York, Dark Room Residency

Education

MFA Photography, Video and Related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2009

BA Film and Video, The London College of Communication, London, UK, 1999