Trent Davis Bailey (b. 1985) is an American photographer born and based in Colorado whose work presents nuanced ways of looking at and ruminating on notions of ecology, place, family, grief and loss, trauma, memory, and time.
Bailey received his MFA from the California College of the Arts in 2015 and his BFA and BA from the University of Colorado. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2019 Film Photo Award and the 2015 Snider Prize from the Museum of Contemporary Photography. His work has been shown widely in the US and abroad, including exhibitions at Somerset House in London and Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco, and at art fairs and festivals such as Paris Photo and the Encontros da Imagem Photography Festival in Portugal. Bailey’s editorial work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The California Sunday Magazine, SSAW, and elsewhere. His first monograph, The North Fork, will be published by Trespasser (Texas) in 2023.
Bailey is represented by Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco and Rep Ltd. in London/New York. He teaches photography at the University of Colorado in Denver.
This intimate series is the result of the photographer’s decades-long fascination with a remote valley, its idiosyncratic inhabitants and a long, personal history of family strife.
