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.


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 .