Winona Barton-Ballentine

 

Year: 2013
Size: 21" x 13"
Medium: Archival Pigment Print
Edition: Edition 1/6
Value: $1000

Minimum bid: $250

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My photographs play with America's ever-changing relationship to food, agriculture, domesticity, and gender. I was born in 1980 in Binghamton, New York; once named the Parlor City, for it's beautiful homes which have fallen into disrepair as a result of the shifting agricultural and industrial processes. In 2002 I graduated from Bard College with a BA in photography. I moved to New York, played in an all girl goth-punk-country band, and became a fashion and portrait photographer. I stopped thinking about fashion and started thinking about energy in 2009 when my hometown became the focus of a nationwide fracking debate. In 2013 I graduated with an MFA from the ICP-Bard photography program. During that time I studied in Arles, France, at the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie; an exchange awarded by the Bruni-Sarkozy Foundation. Now I'm working on a cookbook with the Greenpoint, Brooklyn based bakery, Ovenly, which will be published in 2014.

 

www.winonabartonballentine.com