Vaune Trachtman

Vaune Trachtman (Brattleboro, VT) is a photographer and printmaker whose images explore the evanescence of dreams and memory. Using the photopolymer gravure method, she creates works that "seem more like emanations than photographs," said Mark Feeney of The Boston Globe), while her attentiveness to the "transitory reach of light" leads to moments of "fleeting, wondrous, sacred habitation" (Collier Brown, Od Review).

Vaune has been in the top 50 of Photolucida's Critical Mass, and was a Semifinalist in The Print Center's 95th and 97th ANNUAL International Competitions. She was a 2022 finalist and People's Choice Award Winner in Klompching Gallery's Fresh Annual. Her series “Now is Always” has been exhibited at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA and the Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro. It”” was named a “Top Portfolio” by Rfotofolio and an “Outstanding Work” by the Denis Roussel Awards. She has been shortlisted for the Hariban Award, and was a winner of the Alternative Processes National Competition. Trachtman has received grants from the Adolf & Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Berkshire Taconic Foundation, Vermont Arts Council and NEA. She received an MA from New York University and studied at the International Center of Photography, NY. She was born in Philadelphia, PA.