B E T T Y P R E S S, P H O T O G R A P H E R

 

Betty Press is currently an adjunct Professor of Photography at University of Southern Mississippi . She is best known for her photographs taken in Africa where she lived and worked as a free lance photojournalist from 1987 to 1995. Her photographs have been published in many major magazines and newspapers.

Now living in Hattiesburg , Mississippi she photographs in the South as well as continuing to travel to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Cuba and East Africa . 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 is called Africa in images and proverbs . It 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 in January, 2005 and University of La Verne , California in April, 2005.

Her work has been featured in many juried exhibitions, including the Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle where she received an honorable mention award. . She was one of 29 artists to be selected for the 14 th Annual Women in the Visual Arts 2000 at the Erector Square Gallery, New Haven , Connecticut . In 1995 she placed in the top 100 photographers internationally in the Ernst Haas Awards Competition, sponsored by the Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport , Maine . She had the honor to photograph Audrey Hepburn on her visit to Somalia as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1992. These photographs have appeared in many publications and books celebrating Hepburn’s life. 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 Duncan Gallery of Art, Stetson University , Deland , Florida . She also has photographs in many private collections. She is represented by Panos Pictures, London; Woodfin Camp & Associates, New York; Photographic Image Gallery, Portland, Oregon; International Visions Gallery, Washington , DC and A Gallery in Hattiesburg , Mississippi .