From Amy Miller, Executive Director of ACP:

“Atlanta Celebrates Photography (ACP) would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to Julian Cox, curator of photography at the High Museum. Julian will be leaving next month to become the Founding Curator of Photography for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Chief Curator for the de Young Museum. This is a great move for Julian and it is well-deserved.

In addition to all he has done to benefit the museum in advancing its place among the nation’s institutions that exhibit photography, Julian has been a tremendous advocate and friend to ACP – and to the photography community as a whole. Through his efforts over the last five years, we have been able to experience palpable growth among our photography community. Not just physical growth – which has occurred – but a growing together as well. We now work together in unprecedented ways to support our common goals.

Thanks to Julian, ACP has enjoyed building a closer relationship with the museum and our programming has strengthened as a result. We do not take lightly how our photo-sphere has evolved under such leadership. The High Museum should not take this lightly either as they embark on their search for a new curator.

Let us all join together to thank Julian for all he has done. The task is in the hands of the Atlanta photo community to maintain this momentum, and ACP will lead the charge! It is a sad day for Atlanta whenever someone of such talent moves on, but we must not be disheartened. Let us look forward – Julian is leaving our photography community in much better shape than he found it and for that we are deeply and gratefully inspired.