2023 Chester F. Reather Scholarship Award goes to Tonya Burge
Professor Norm Barker, the 2023 Reather Scholarship Student Tonya Burge, and Professor David Rini
Please join us in congratulating this year’s Recipient of the Chester Reather Scholarship Award: Tonya Burge. This honor recognizes the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine graduate student whose advanced work or thesis stimulates innovative research and creative use of new imaging modality.
An internationally renowned biomedical photographer, Chester F. Reather was a part of Hopkins for over 50 years. At the age of 28, Chester began taking pictures with Osbourne Heard, the photographer with the Carnegie Institute of Embryology (at Hopkins). Soon Chester’s magnified scientific images set a standard for medical and biological photographs around the world. Much of his most famous work appeared in the popular press.
In the 1940’s, magazines like Life, Time and Fortune ran photographic essays of his images of the developing human embryo. For the first time, the public was able to see the fetus as it developed. Even the Encyclopedia Britannica utilized his powerful black and white images to depict the beginning of human life. His work appeared in many textbooks authored by Hopkins physicians. As a founding member of the Biological Photographers Association, he trained many who later became distinguished members.
Congratulations, Tonya! All of the faculty and staff recognize and appreciate the high level of work and commitment that you put forth and are so happy you are part of Art as Applied to Medicine
The 2023 Reather Scholarship Student Tonya Burge and the AAM Faculty
Professor Norm Barker shares a Chester Reather photograph of an Embryo