Art Museum, Philadelphia, 2001

Asam is a master of black-and-white photography, dedicated to exploring and pushing the conceptual and technical boundaries of silver prints. He approaches art-making as a transformative process, in which he explores the physical properties of his materials to create works on paper that appear to be the result of alchemical transformation. Asman has taught photography at Moore College of Art & Design, Drexel University, the University of the Arts, and the University of Pennsylvania, in addition to working as a fine art photographer and running a commercial black-and-white printing lab. His career has been marked by several honors, including a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and a Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.