Betty Press

Betty Press is a fine art photographer, known for photographs taken in Africa where she lived for many years. This work placed in Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50. Now living in Hattiesburg, Mississippi she has a new project called Finding Mississippi using vintage and toy cameras about living in Mississippi.

In 2011 she published an award winning photobook I Am Because We Are: African Wisdom in Image and Proverb which portrays a stunning, life-affirming portrait of the African people and culture. In 2013 she received a statewide award in photography, from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and a Mississippi Visual Artist Grant.

Her photographs have been widely exhibited, collected and selected for juried competitions. In 2015 her photos were added to collections of the Mississippi Museum of Art and The Do Good Fund.

Lens Culture, Silvershotz, Shots, South x Southeast, Lenscratch, ACurator, RfotoFolio, Art Photo Index, Southern Photographer have featured her work.