Tracy Calder
A former editor of Outdoor Photography, Tracy co-founded Close-up Photographer of the Year and this year was awarded a Gold medal from the RHS for her Plant Scars series. Her work has been exhibited at The Photographers’ Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and Saatchi Gallery.
Instagram @tracy_calder_photo and www.cupoty.com
When New York collector Sondra Gilman Gonzalez-Falla spent $750 on three Eugéne Atget prints in the mid 1970s her family thought she was insane. Thankfully, the art lover (who was working on the Junior Council at MoMA at the time) was unrepentant and together with her husband, Celso, went on to create one of the world’s finest private collections of photography. By the time she died in 2021, the collection contained prints from the likes of Imogen Cunningham, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Sally Mann. In the catalogue that accompanied the exhibition Shared Vision: the Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography, Sondra described her role as that of a custodian. ‘Nobody owns art,’ she declared. ‘It’s passing through us, and we have to take care of it.’ Love, it seems, is a good place to start when you’re thinking about building a print collection. Although the financial gains are not insignificant – a
