Born and raised in central Pennsylvania, Rachel Bee Porter holds an MFA in Photography and Related Media from Parsons the New School for Design and a BFA in Professional Photographic Illustration from Rochester Institute of Technology. Her work has been exhibited in venues such as the Center for Photography at Woodstock and Aperture Gallery in New York City. Her work has most recently been seen at the Brancolini Grimaldi Gallery in London. She has contributed work to several publications, such as Creative Quarterly and Photographer’s Forum. Rachel was recently named a US winner of the Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward 2011 - Emerging Photographers 2011. She was also awarded first prize in the 2012 CCNY Annual Juried Competition.  She lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA.