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Dr. Sarah Kennel joined VMFA in 2021 as the inaugural Aaron Siskind Curator of Photography and Director of the Raysor Center for Works on Paper. A photography historian, she has curated and co-curated major exhibitions such as Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings (2018), Olivia Parker: Order of Imagination (2019); Underexposed: Women Artists (2020), Willie Anne Wright: Artist and Alchemist (2023) and A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845 (2024). Her work explores topics from 19th-century French photography to modernism and women photographers. Kennel has held curatorial roles at the National Gallery of Art, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the High Museum of Art.