Art Museum, Philadelphia, 2001

Asam, is a master of black and white photography, devoted to investigating and stretching the conceptual and technical boundaries of silver prints. He approaches art making as a transformative process, in which he mines the physical properties of his materials to create a work on paper, which are seemingly the result of alchemical change.Asman taught photography at Moore College of Art & Design, Drexel University, University of the Arts and University of Pennsylvania, in addition to working as a fine art photographer and a 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.