2022 “Personal Space,” Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle

2021 “My Eyes Need Beauty,” Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle

2019 “Culture and Sea,” Blink, Seattle

2018 “Culture and Sea,” Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle

2017 “New Works,” Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle

2017 “Ebb and Flow,” Red Ticking, Seattle

The Julia Margaret Cameron Award, 2023

FINALIST, Critical Mass Top 200, Portland, OR, 2023

FINALIST, Critical Mass Top 200, Portland, OR, 2021

WINNING FILM, The Magic of a Second, Seattle International Film Festival, 2016

All the Colors I Am Inside, 2023, Kehrer Verlag

2023 PHOTOFAIRS NYC, represented by Winston Wächter Fine Art

2018 Seattle Art Fair, represented by Winston Wächter Fine Art

2017 Seattle Art Fair, represented by Winston Wächter Fine Art

2023 Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain

2022 “Portrait Issue #114,” F-Stop Magazine

2022 “Unconventional Portraiture,” Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY

2022 “The NFT Collection,” Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY

2022 “Women Street Photographers,” Artspace Gallery, New York, NY, Jurors: Gulnara Samoilova and Debra Klomp Ching

2022 “Human/Nature Exhibition,” Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui Photography Museum, Lishui, China, Curator: Laura Moya, Director Photolucida

2021 “Women Street Photographer,” National Museum of Anthropology, Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, Curator: Gulnara Samoilova and Polly Irungu

2021 ”Human/Nature Exhibition,” Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui Art Museum, Lishui, China, Curator: Laura Moya, Director Photolucida

2021 “Inaugural Virtual Exhibition,” Women’s Street Photographers, New York, NY, Curator: Gulnara Samoilova

2021 “25th Anniversary Exhibition,” Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY

2020 “Women Street Photographers,” Artspace Gallery, New York, NY, Juror: Gulnara Samoilova

2020 “Summer Mood,” Topping Rose House, Bridgehampton, NY, Curator: Natasha Schlesinger

2020 “The Heart Goes Nine,” Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, Rhode Island, Juror: J. Sybylla Smith

2019 “Women Street Photographers,” Artspace Gallery, New York, NY, Juror: Gulnara Samoilova

2019 “Women Street Photographers,” Sofia Photo Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria

2018 “Women Street Photographers,” Artspace Gallery, New York, NY, Juror: Gulnara Samoilova

2018 “Travel: Faces and Places,” PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, Juror: Krista Rossow

2018 “World Water Day Photography Exhibition,” Seregno, Italy

2018 “Color Space Contemporary Photography,” Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR, Juror: Todd Johnson

2018 “Humans,” New York Center for Photographic Arts, New York, NY, Juror: Crista Dix

2018 “Water,” PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, Juror: Ann Jastrab

2018 Bridges Short Film Festival, Michael Schultheis: In the Studio, Stockholm, Sweden

2017 “The Decisive Moment,” PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, Juror: Sam Abell

2017 Short Film, Michael Schulties: In the Studio, Winston Wachter Fine Art Seattle

2017 “Second Chances,” SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, Juror: Danae Males

2017 “Artists for Progress,” Piranha Gallery, Seattle, WA, Curator: Jennifer Ament

2017 “Glass,” New York Center for Photographic Arts, New York, NY, Juror: Traer Scott

2017 “Color: The Visual Spectrum,” Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR, Juror: Todd Johnson

2017 “Summertime” (three photographs selected), A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, Juror: Sandrine Hermand-Grisel

2017 Online exhibition, “Fine Art Photography Awards,” conceptual and fine art categories, London, UK, Jurors: Tim Franco, Nadia Dias, Liza Van der Stock, Matilde Gattoni, Amélie Labourdette, Valery Klamm and Pierre Abensur

2017 “Liquid,” New York Center for Photographic Arts, New York, NY, Juror: Debra Klomp Ching

2017 “Intimate Portraits,” PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, Juror: Joyce Tenneson

2017 Online exhibition, “The Mind’s Eye. All About Photo,” Merit Gallery, Jurors: Beatrice Chassepot, Julien Chatelin, James Dooley, Susan Dooley, Eileen Gittins, Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, Ann Jastrab, Aline Smithson, Judy Walgren, Sabine Weiss.

2017 “Open Juried Exhibition,” Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT, Juror: Karen Haas

2016 The Magic of a Second, Seattle International Film Festival

2016 Short Film, Tracy Rocca: In the Studio, Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle

2016 “Portraiture,” Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR, Juror: Kelli Pennington

2016 “Home,” Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Santa Fe, NM, Jurors: Paula Tognarelli, Nancy Baron, Olivier Laurent, and Reid Callanan

2016 “Portal,” SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, Juror: Lori Vrba

Santa FE Photographic Workshops, Santa Fe, NM

Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle
Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York

“Women Street Photographers,” edited by Gulnara Samoilova, Prestel Publishing, 2021, The Queue, pg 75. Print.

“The Aquatic Street by Deb Achak,” All About Photo, February 2021

“Deb Achak”, DESTIG Magazine, Best of 2020, Issue 09, January 2021, https://issuu.com/destig/docs/destig_toronto_red?fr=sNzNkMDI4MzI3MTc

“Interview with Deb Achak,” UP Photographers, March 2020, https://upphotographers.com/interviews/interview-with-deb-achak/

“Deb Achak’s Swimmer’s-eye View,” Art Zone with Nancy Guppy, February 2019, http://www.seattlechannel.org/ArtZone/segments?videoid=x102410

“Inside a Strikingly Modern Tudor Home in Seattle,” MyDomaine Magazine, December 2018, https://www.mydomaine.com/modern-home-tour-seattle

“Seductive Doom,” Real Life Magazine, June 2018. https://reallifemag.com/seductive-doom/https://reallifemag.com/seductive-doom/

“The Queue,” City Arts Magazine, June 2018. https://www.cityartsmagazine.com/the-queue/

* “Thirteen things to do in Seattle,” Crosscut Magazine, May 2018. https://crosscut.com/2018/05/13-things-do-seattle

* “Nancy Guppy shares a weekend full of entertainment options,” New Day Northwest, May 2018.https://www.king5.com/video/entertainment/television/programs/new-day-northwest/nancy-guppy-shares-a-weekend-full-of-entertainment-options-new-day-nw/281-8131750

“Inside a Medina, Washington Home,” Elle Decor, January 2018. https://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/house-interiors/a15873546/medina-washington-house-tour/

Cover Photograph, Luxe Interiors and Design, Nov/Dec 2017. https://winstonwachter-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017_Achak_LuxeCover.pdf

“A Designer’s Capitol Hill Seattle Home,” Apartment Therapy, October 2017. https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/house-tour-a-designers-capitol-hill-seattle-home-244625

“This Photographer Transformed Her Attic Into an Office,” Domino Magazine, August 2017. https://www.domino.com/content/converted-attic-office/

“She Told Us To Trust Our Intuition, by Deb Achak,” Fraction Magazine, Issue 99, June 2017. http://www.fractionmagazine.com/deb-achak

“Photo of the Day,” Don’t Take Pictures, April 2017. http://www.donttakepictures.com/photo-of-the-day/2017/4/9/deb-achak?rq=deb%20achak

“PHOTO AWARD: All About Photo Awards 2017,” be-Art Magazine, April 2017. https://beartmagazine.com/photo-award-photo-awards-2017/

“The 2017 All About Photo Award Winners,” Lenscratch Fine Art Photography Daily, April 2017. http://lenscratch.com/2017/04/all-about-photo/

“The Mind’s Eye,” All About Photo, March 2017. https://www.all-about-photo.com/all-about-photo-awards-2017-winners.php

White Cube/Black Coffee: Ep. 1 - Deb Achak. Podcast interview by Sofya Belinskaya. 2018.

https://soundcloud.com/whitecubeblackcoffee/white-cube-black-coffee-ep1-deb-achak

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, MSW

University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, BA