Bio
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| Betty Press is best known for her photographs taken in Africa where she lived and worked as a freelance photojournalist from 1987 to 1995. Now living in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and teaching at the University of Southern Mississippi, she continues to photograph in Africa as well as in the South, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and Cuba . Her photographs have been published in most major magazines and newspapers. She has had numerous exhibitions including one of African photographs in 2001 at the nationally recognized Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida. Her most recent shows have been at the Baldwin Photographic Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro; the Art League, Daytona Beach, Florida; and Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Her latest project, Africa in images and proverbs, opened at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, Colorado in October 2004 and since has been shown at the University of Miami, Florida, University of La Verne, California and the Workspace Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska. This work will be published in a book entiteled "I Am Because We are: African Wisdom in Image and Proverb" in 2011. Her work has been selected in many juried competitions. In 2005 she placed in the top 50 photographers of Critical Mass, Photo Lucida, Portland, Oregon. Other recent awards were received from Women in Photography, the Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle and the Art of Photography in San Diego. She had the honor to photograph Audrey Hepburn on her visit to Somalia as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1992. In 1999 her photographs were featured in a book titled The New Africa: Dispatches from a Changing Continent, published by the University Press of Florida. Betty Press studied photography at the University Of Michigan School Of Art, Ann Arbor. Her work is in several public art collections, including the Harry Ransom Center for the Humanities, Austin, Texas, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, and Stetson University, Deland, Florida. She also has photographs in many private collections. She is represented by Panos Pictures, London; www.panos.co.uk Photographic Image Group, Portland, Oregon; International Visions Gallery, www.inter-visions.com Washington, DC; Rahimatulla African Museum of Modern Art and One Off Contemporary Art Gallery in Nairobi, Kenya. |
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