AWARD-WINNING PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER

SPEAKER

ACTIVIST

Eva Woolridge (she/her) is an award-winning Queer, Black & Chinese conceptual portrait photographer, public speaker, and social activist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her photo series explore the sexual, spiritual, and emotional nature of femininity. In her work she transcends surface-level labels of people of color by conveying strength, perseverance, vulnerability and vitality using strong lighting and composition.

Woolridge’s work has been featured in publications such as Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and Harper’s Bazaar, and has been exhibited in Seattle, Boston, D.C., and NYC. She speaks nationally about photography and its relationship to identity, including a TEDx Talk, the Schomburg Research Center in Harlem NYC, The Scope Art Art, and as a keynote for the University of Maryland, College Park. Woolridge currently sits on the Diversity Advisory Council for Fuji Cameras of North America.

In 2019 Woolridge became a recipient of The Leica Women in Foto Award for her series, "The Size of a Grapefruit,” a visual narrative based on Eva’s traumatic medical event which highlights the emotional stages from before, during and after her ovarian cyst surgery. Her objective is to address the accounts of her surgery, micro-aggressions and medical negligence Black women experience during medical emergencies, and the outdated information available in women's reproductive health.

Woolridge continues to use visual narratives to convey a tone of a new, inclusive wave of feminine energy through her gaze as a queer, woman of color, while commenting on the social & cultural conditions of her communities.

Based in Brooklyn, New York.

Studio space available.

Contact:

evawoolridge@gmail.com

Images may not be copied, printed or otherwise disseminated without the expressed written consent of Eva Woolridge.