Joshua Mokry

Incredibly honored to be selected in the Top 25 for the @lenscratch Student Prize this year. To celebrate, here are some behind the scenes of the featured image that was done in Fort Stanton-Snowy River Cave last year. Huge thank you to trip leader Carrin Rich and the whole restoration team for a safe and incredible trip that day. We were underground for about 12 hours! --- Thank you so much to jurors @alinesmithson , @danielgeorgephoto , @lindaalterwitz , @kellyeeisworth , Vicente Cayula Agiala, @acdilworth , @krisgraves , Elizabeth Cheng Krist, @yorgosphoto , @hamidahglasgow , @johnston_se , @alaynapernell , @epiphanysk , @jmbalesphotography , @drew_leventhal , @aatsubo , @raythompsonjrphoto , @xuguanyu , and @notthatbush Congratulations to all of the artists! Please check them out below: Ryan Mitchell @tiermir Emilene Orozco @emilenephoto Gabriela Passos @gabrielapassos_photography Hannah Samoy @biyayaart Hannah Schneider Anastasia Sierra @anastasiasierra Erika Nina Suárez @erikaninasuarez Brianna Tadeo @brianna_tadeo Jordan Tovin @jordan.tovin Judson Womack @judwomack Zahra Babaei @zeebabaei Jaylen Brannon @werunaways lan Byers-Gamber @bamblerdander Beihua Guo @beihua_guo Alexis Joy Hagestad Gajhagestad Misael Hernandez @misaelhdzstudio Isabella Kahn @isabellakahn Ross Landenberger @rosslandenberger Jordan Layton @jordanlayton Christian Lee @christianmakesfilms Sungchul Lee @leeleedug Montenez Lowery @montenez.1 Nika McKagen @1889_lover Madalynne Meeker @madalynnemeeker.imgs

Fault Line Vol. 1 investigated the place where it all started: Lubbock. Thinking about wind, dirt, and the blaring sun, this exhibition offered viewers a glimpse into what Lubbock means to us, as well as a departure of sorts as the collective gets ready to leave the Texas high plains. Stay tuned for Fault Line Vol. 2 and more to come.

This Wednesday, May 13 from 6-8pm, @faultlinecollective will have their first exhibition at CASP Studio 2. Be there. Studio 2, 1010 Mac Davis Ln, Lubbock, TX 79401

CHARTA AWARD 2026 Early Bird Deadline: 30.04.2026 The Charta Award is open to artists who incorporate photography into their artistic practice and have developed a project that could take the form of a book. The award has an open theme. • The winning project will be published by @yogurt.editions • One shortlisted artist will present a solo exhibition in Lugano with @artphileinfoundation //Best Entries: Underearth by Joshua Mokry @jamokry This project spans across twelve different cave systems in the regions of New Mexico and Texas where I have been working as a cave restorationist. Serving as both photographer and restorationist, I investigate how far human interference can extend itself and consider how both destruction and restoration privileges human vision over nonhuman habitation. A cave serves as a site of resistance. Defined by darkness, it resists our need to illuminate and make sense of it. My work highlights the struggle to comprehend the Earth, and the way that our presence and projections are intrusive, even violent, both below and across the surface. Human influence on our environment has seeped below our awareness, and I engage with this influence through the complexities of sight and darkness. The light we bring into a cave shapes our perception, and as we illuminate the darkness, we impose our own will upon it. Our engagement with the world is always an act of negotiation, an attempt to bring order to chaos, even when the space resists it. Through images taken within the cave and my studio, I uncover and re-cover a cycle of restoration and destruction, shining a spotlight on our involvement in spaces that should remain hidden. Negotiating the darkness, I challenge our hierarchy and put us below the horizon line. - Charta is a project by @yogurt.magazine . . . #photobookward #photobooklovers #artbook

It's been a long time coming.. My MFA Thesis exhibition "Underearth" opens this Friday, April 3 here in the Texas high plains. Thank you to so many people (you know who you are) who have poured their energy and knowledge into guiding me and making this work into what it is. Friday, April 3, 6-9PM CASP - Studio D Lubbock, TX

Joshua Mokry @jamokry (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX) "Document" Congratulations to Josh for winning the 2nd place award for #NewVisions2026, juried by Paho Mann paho.mann ! #NewVisions2026 is now online, you can check out the gallery of selected works here: /newvisions2026 #callforentry #NewVisions2026 #phototps #studentcompetition #juriedcompetition #photocompetition #emergingphotographers #texasphotographicsociety #texasphotosociety

Joshua Mokry (Hockley, TX) "Sun Rays, Earth, and Moon" This image was selected as an honorable mention from the Texas Photographic Society's 33rd International Competition by jurors Barbara Bosworth and Emily Sheffer. #texasphotosociety #texasphoto #tps33 #tps33international @jamokry

TTU School of Art invites you to attend Joshua Mokry's thesis lecture, "Underearth" Joshua Mokry is an M.F.A. student with a photography emphasis. The lecture will be presented this Friday, November 14th, in the School of Art RM B01 at 2 PM. If you cannot attend in person here is a link to a live stream of the event to join virtually the day of the event. /live/x9JvP77xJGw?si=vJnjjZuCD9No910z Here is a short statement from the artist. Tangled wire, a corroded penny, bat guano, wavelength, sweat and hair, algae, frequency, a white fungal disease, rock, and time. At the heart of Underearth lies a question: how can we be good ancestors? Within the caverns of our choices, Mokry uncovers a violent mark left over the Earth. He shines a spotlight on the complexities of restoration and destruction in nonhuman spaces, to ultimately bury what is transformed to be left alone in the darkness. Will the future look back on our mistakes or focus on our tendency to correct those mistakes? Through photography, sculpture, sound, performance, and installation, Mokry challenges our hierarchy and puts us below the horizon line.

A little late, but I was so excited to speak with my friend @austin_cullen at the @spesouthcentral conference on scientific collaboration within photography. Thank you to everyone who came out and big thank you to @mulveyphoto @cpireland80 @leallen_art @kimwassoneagan @carolrecord @hraza.art and everyone else working behind the scenes for another great SPE South Central conference.

Join us on Friday, September 19, for an artist talk with Joshua Mokry at Of Light and Alchemy, an exhibition curated by Liz Allen. Northlight Gallery, 605 E Grant Street Studio, Phoenix September 19, 6:30 pm. About artist: Joshua Mokry (b. 1995) is an American artist based in Texas that exercises alternative techniques that convey and connect materials, subject matter, and feeling. He is influenced by uncertainty in every form of the word, drawing from it to experiment, learn, and challenge others in such moments. For his past work, he created his own cameras and used the solargraphy process to express time, connecting events that happen during an exposure. He is currently interested in the environment, researching cave ecosystems and the greater impact of human influence in nonhuman spaces. He obtained a BA at Stephen F. Austin State University in 2020 and is currently pursuing an MFA degree in photography at Texas Tech University. images: 1-Breathe, 2022, 24” x 30”, Archival Inkjet Print 2-Beginnings, 2020, 28” x 36”, Archival Inkjet Print Participated Artist: Participated Artists: Brenda Biondo, Meg Gould, Joshua Mokry, David Shannon-Lier, Ariel Wilson

Of Light and Alchemy September 05 – October 03 , 2025 Guest Curator: Liz Allen Participated Artist: Participated Artists: Brenda Biondo, Meg Gould, Joshua Mokry, David Shannon-Lier, Ariel Wilson Opening Reception and Artist Talk(Brenda Biondo), September 05,2025 6:30 pm. “I am burning with desire to see your experiments from nature.” – Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre Nascent photographic technology was a delicate dance with light and chemistry fueled by curiosity and experimentation. In 1839 two processes were announced, first in France and later in England with great fanfare. However, Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot were not the only ones toiling in their labs “burning with desire” as Daguerre described his excitement in a letter to his collaborator Nicéphore Niépce in 1828. Many others endeavored with various processes to capture the potential of an image created by light bouncing off a subject onto a flat surface. Some motivated by commerce, others by science, and still others by beauty, they could not have known how photography would transform the world by advancing the dissemination of information, shaping our relationship to representation, and thus influencing culture and history. In the exhibition, Of Light and Alchemy, the desire still burns in these artists as they continue the rich and multi-faceted tradition of experimentation and discovery that was marked by those announcements nearly 200 years ago. Through various iterations of photo-sensitive materials, the artists delve into the human relationship to time, perception and metaphor in collaboration with light and nature to further expand the boundaries of experience. Artist Talk: Joshua Mokry, September 19,2025 Closing Reception and Artist Talks, (Ariel Wilson and Meg Gould), October 03,2025

A little late but check out my interview with @innovategrant ! (link in bio) Lots of new ideas and experimentations soon to be solidified in my final year of my MFA. Read through the interview for some sneak peeks. Huge thank you to the Innovate Grant team for this opportunity Link to interview: /interview-joshua-mokry-ecosystems (also in bio) @ttusoa @ttuarts #mfaphotography #mfaphoto #innovategrant #artistgrants #photogrants #grantsforartists #contemporaryphotography #artgrant #artinterview #artistinterview #artinterviews #artistinterviews