Photo credit: Victoria Will
Ashly Stohl is a photographer based in Los Angeles and New York. She is also the co-founder of Peanut Press, an independent photobook publisher.
Ashly was born and raised in Los Angeles. She earned a BS in chemistry from UCSB, but spent more time with the creative crowd from Brooks Institute of Photography. After college, she returned to L.A. and put her science education to use, creating award-winning educational websites for NASA’s Mars Program Office.
She embraced photography as an escape from the demands of being a mother, yet motherhood is the inescapable lens through which she views her subjects. She examines community as an extension of the family, and believes that the families and people create for themselves can be as revealing as the ones to which they were born.
Ashly has lectured at institutions including The Penumbra Foundation, Columbia University, George Washington University, and SPE National. In 2015, she published her first book, Charth Vader, and it became a viral sensation. Her second book, Days and Years, was published in 2019. Ashly and now lends her experience to other photographers, publishing through Peanut Press.
Selected Collections
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Yale University, New Haven, CT
University of Buffalo Buffalo, NY
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Lafayette College Easton, Pennsylvania
University of Denver, Denver CO
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Selected Exhibitions
2019 Days & Years, Solo Exhibition, Leica Soho, New York, New York
2018 Friends and Family, Lucie Foundation/House of Lucie, Los Angeles, California
2017 Photobook Exhibition at Athens Photobook Festival, Athens, Greece
2017 In With the New, Catherine Couturier Gallery, Houston, Texas
2016 22nd Juried Show, Peter Urban Legacy Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston, Massachusetts, Curator: Elizabeth Avedon
2016 Indie Photobook Showcase, Candela Books & Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2014 Masquerade, New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, Curator: Aline Smithson
2012 Simply, Center for Fine Art Photography, Curator: Louise Clements
2012 Harmonious Tableau, ADC Contemporary Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, California
Awards
11th Julia Margaret Cameron Award – Children and Daily Life, Honorable Mention
11th Julia Margaret Cameron Award – Children and Daily Life, Finalist
11th Julia Margaret Cameron Award – People, Finalist
Press
Elizabeth Avedon, Best Photography Books of 2015
Huffington Post, Meet Charth Vader,The 7-Year-Old ‘Villain’ Who Will Melt Your Cold And Icy Heart, October, 2015
Feature Shoot, Meet Charth Vader, a Little Boy Who’s Mastered the Force, October, 2015
Lenscratch, The Ashly Stohl Interview: Charth Vader, October, 2015
Black + White Magazine (UK), American Connection, by Susan Burnstine, July 2015
Rangefinder Magazine, Ashly Stohl Captures Her Super Hero Son, June, 2014
PDN, Emerging Photographer, Ashly Stohl’s Charth Vader, March, 2014