Mary Berridge is an American photographer whose work has been exhibited in many venues including the Museum of Modern Art in NY, the De Young Museum in San Francisco, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Yale University Gallery of Art and the Princeton University Art Museum. She is interested in how people find meaning in challenging circumstances.
Mary’s photographs have received several awards- among them are: a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Aaron Siskind Fellowship, the Lange-Taylor Prize, a NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a Documentary Project Fund Award, and a LensCulture Portrait Award. She has published three books: A Positive Life: Portraits of Women Living with HIV (Running Press, 1997), On the Eve, Moscow, 1998 (Blue Sky Books, 2014)*, and Visible Spectrum: Portraits from the World of Autism (Kehrer Verlag, 2021/22). Visible Spectrum is available via the “Buy Books” link at left. Her photographs have been published in numerous anthologies and periodicals, including The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, The Guardian, CNN, TIME, Der Spiegel, Raw View, FotoNostrum and The Best of LensCulture. After earning her MFA from Yale and a BA from the University of Michigan, she went on to teach at Princeton University as well as several other colleges and universities.
Mary lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she serves on the board of the NC Autism Society's Orange-Chatham chapter.
TIME magazine included Mary in a list of "unsung American female photographers of the past century.”
*On the Eve, Moscow, 1998 is available from Blue Sky Books at https://www.magcloud.com/browse/magazine/814979