Biography

Throughout her practice, Texas-based photographer Shelley Calton has made it her niche to reflect on the collective female experience and the resulting subcultures, whether it is photographing roller derby girls, women who arm themselves, or the delicate artifacts associated with femininity. Her first book, Hard Knocks, Rolling with the Derby Girls was published in 2009 and her second book Concealed, She's Got a Gun, was released in spring of 2015. A portrait from Concealed was chosen as a finalist for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery London in 2014. Concealed has been exhibited at HCP, 2016, UTSA Main Gallery, 2016, Zoom Photo Festival Saguenay, 2014, and and DeSantos Gallery, 2012. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the National Portrait Gallery, London, as well as private collections. Featured articles and interviews have been written in The New York Times Lens, The Daily Mail.com, Newsweek Japan, ABC.com, Slate, The Business Insider, and live interviews broadcast on the BBC World Service and BBC TV America.

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