Tate Shaw is the Director of Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York a nonprofit organization supporting photography, books, and film/video with an MFA program in Visual Studies in association with The College at Brockport, SUNY. Shaw routinely organizes exhibitions and lectures on books including the Photo-Bookworks Symposium at VSW June 28-30, 2012. He is co-publisher of Preacher's Biscuit Books and his personal works are in many private and public collections for artist’s books internationally.