Beth Yarnelle Edwards has been making photographs in suburban middle-class settings in America and Europe since 1997. Her work has been exhibited and published extensively in the US and Europe, and she has been the subject of solo museum exhibitions at Château D'Eau in Toulouse, France; the Museé de la Photographie å Charleroi in Belgium; and most recently, the Oakland Museum of California. An exhibition is scheduled for the Skotið Gallery at the Reykjavik Museum of Photography, Iceland in December 2014.

The winner of CENTER's 1999 Photography Project Competition, Edwards' photographs can be found in the collections of SFMOMA, LACMA, the MFA Houston, and many other American and European institutions. She is the winner of the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Visual Arts Award, the Ruttenberg Arts Foundation Award, and the Salon International de la Recherche Photographique (SIRP) in France.

Edwards' first monograph, Suburban Dreams, was published by Kehrer Verlag (Germany) in 2011. Her work was recently on view at the Photography Festival in Plovdiv, Bulgaria (fall 2013).