Becky Holladay is a documentary and portrait photographer who divides her time between New York City and Los Angeles. She has had numerous careers in her lifetime, including: bartender, ski bum, florist, sailing instructor, actor, and one job as a receptionist that involved writing letters to men in prison.
Becky graduated from the full-time Photojournalism & Documentary Photography Program at the International Center of Photography in June 2008. While at ICP, she was awarded an ICP Director's Fellowship and nominated for a 2008 New York Photo Award. She is a teacher/mentor with The Tiziano Project and spent last summer teaching photojournalism and multimedia to teenagers in Mathare, a slum area outside Nairobi. She is currently teaching for The Tiziano Project in Los Angeles.
Her written essays and photo essays have appeared in The New York Times as well as several other regional and local newspapers. Exhibitions include: “The Human Condition,” group show at Festival of the Photograph 2007, Slideluck Potshow XII in Brooklyn, NY, and “What We Saw,” group show at the 2008 Pingyao International Photo Festival. Her work is held in numerous private collections in the U.S.
Portraits & Weddings - www.beckyholladay2.com
Journal - www.beckyholladay.blogspot.com