Kristin Bedford
Located at the intersection of aesthetics and social realism, Kristin Bedford’s photography explores race, visual stereotypes and communal self-expression. Through long-term engagement with communities, Bedford makes photographs that invite us to reconsider prevalent visual narratives around cultural movements.
Bedford’s photographs have appeared in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe, and are held in numerous collections worldwide, including the Library of Congress and the Archive of Documentary Arts at the Rubenstein Library.
Bedford’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Smithsonian Magazine, The Telegraph, CNN, Esquire and The Huffington Post.
Born in Washington, DC, Bedford lives and works in Los Angeles.
Kristin Bedford’s work explores the idea of community and the cultures that arise as people work, play and pray together. She specialises in long-term projects, including living with a religious community in Philadelphia and documenting the ‘storefront churches’ of the southern United States. Bedford’s new book, Cruise Night, compiles the best photos she took as she explored Mexican American lowrider (custom-car owner) culture in Los Angeles over five years.
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