Owen McCarter (b.1998) is an American photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker based in the Northeastern US. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design where he was awarded the Norman and Rose Avnet Fellowship Award, the Monson Residency Award, and the T.C. Colley Award for Excellence in Photography. He is currently a MFA candidate at Cornell University.

Owen came to Prints on Paper originally to print his photogravure book The Three-Eyed Fish published by Valley Books in 2024. The 25-plate book is an allegorical journey along the Housatonic River in Western Massachusetts and a search for the pollution caused by a General Electric superfund site at the river’s source. Using both documentary and constructed narrative imagery, the project examines our cognition of place and identity through past, present, and anticipated future experiences.

We published a special edition chine-collé photogravure print as part of this project available below.