Deb Achak’s First Monograph:
Deb Achak is an American photographer based in Seattle, Washington. She spent 15 years working at the intersection of health and mental health and earned a Master’s in Social Work at the University of Washington. She left that practice to launch her photography career, employing a visual medium to continue her exploration of the interior lives of herself and others.
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Achak’s photographs have been featured in more than 40 exhibitions, including The National Museum of Anthropology in Tabasco, Mexico, The Lishui Museum of Art in Lishui, China, and The Sofia Photography Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria. Within the United States, Achak has had four solo exhibitions at Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle and has been featured in group exhibitions at Winston Wächter Fine Art New York, The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Southeast Center for Photography, PhotoPlace Gallery, and many others. She was awarded a Critical Mass Top 200 finalist in 2021 and 2023 and is a recipient of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award in 2023. All the Colors I Am Inside is her first book.
