Justin Plakas is a multi-media artist living and working in Athens, Georgia. He received a BA from the University of Maryland Baltimore County with a specialization in Film/Video. Commercially, he has worked on motion based and interactive projects for clients such as John Deere International, The Harvard University Libraries and Ken Burn’s Florentine Films.
In 2007 he was chosen to receive one of four yearlong residencies with Hub-Bub, a community art initiative in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He was most recently awarded a 2010-11 Wilson Center for the Arts research grant for his work documenting rural environments in South Georgia along with photographer Michael Prault.
His work has been screened in festivals and exhibited in galleries across the United States and Internationally. He has taught at the University of South Carolina – Upstate, Sewanee -The University of the South and is now currently teaching in the Photography Department at the Lamar Dodd School of Art where he is a 2012 MFA Candidate.