Sheri Lynn Behr
One hundred years ago, women won the right to vote. Today their spiritual descendants win elections. Behind them are the ghosts of suffragettes, and those who were the first to win. This year we celebrate them all.
Born in the Bronx, Sheri Lynn Behr studied photography and digital imaging in New York City, where she is currently based, and began her career photographing musicians and celebrities. Her rock and roll photographs were featured in most music publications of the time, and are still collected, exhibited and published. After several years in the music business, Behr decided to concentrate on personal work. She explored Polaroid manipulations, with two SX-70 photographs in the recent book and touring exhibition, The Polaroid Project. Other projects have explored Los Angeles intersections, New York City’s Chinatowns, and the iconic Lucky Cat. Her current work deals with photography without permission and our surveillance society, and her project BeSeeingYou was exhibited at the Griffin Museum of Photography and released as a self-published book, which was selected by Elizabeth Avedon as one of the Best Photography Books of 2018.
Behr’s photographs are widely exhibited and published, and have been featured in Harper's Magazine, People's Photography (China), Orta Format (Turkey), The SIP (Israel) and The Boston Globe. In 2012 she received a Fellowship in Photography from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and in 2018, a grant from the Puffin Foundation.
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