Deborah Klochko was the Lawrence S. Friedman Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Museum of Photographic Arts from 2006-2023. She has taught, lectured and written extensively on photography and has curated more than 35 exhibitions throughout her career. Klochko was the executive editor of See, an award-winning journal of visual culture, and is the founder of Speaking of Light: Oral Histories of American Photographers. She is the author of Picturing Eden and co-authored both Moment of Seeing: Minor White at the California School of Fine Arts and Create and Be Recognized: Photography on the Edge, in addition to 15 other publications and numerous essays. Most recently, Klochko curated the traveling exhibition Moment in Time: A Collection of Photographs for Bank of America, The Time Between: The Sequences of Minor White, Encounters: Photographs by Jed Fielding, Storyteller: Work by Holly Roberts, and Picture This: Recent Acquistions.
Ms. Klochko received her Master of Arts in Teaching, Museum Education at George Washington University in Washington, DC and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the Visual Studies Workshop (SUNY) in Rochester, New York.
Since leaving the Museum of Photographic Arts in 2024, Klochko has focused on her art practice, while continuing to write and curate independent projects.
