Annette LeMay Burke
Fray, Santa Margarita (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
Bifurcation, Niland (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
Old Ways, Cabazon (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
The Border, Calexico (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
Alternatives, Desert Hot Springs (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
Shifting Winds, Dillon Beach (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
Kindred Alignment, Black Sand Beach, Shelter Cove (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
One Track, Shelter Cove (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
Obfuscation, Desert Hot Springs (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
Abandoned, Niland (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
Undecided, Niland (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
The Power Structure, Palmdale (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
Oracle, Boiling Mud Pots, Calipatria (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
Evasive Oasis, Hidden Palms (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
Welcome (from Memory Building series)
My Playhouse (from Memory Building series)
Dining Room Dinghy (from Memory Building series)
Fauxliage - Superfluous Plumage, Rodeo, CA
Fauxliage - The Middle Cross, Mesa, AZ
Fauxliage - Trojan Horse, Alpine, CA
Bio
Annette LeMay Burke is an award-winning photographic artist and Northern California native who resides in the heart of Silicon Valley. With a background in geology from the University of California, Berkeley, Burke's lens has long been finely attuned to the ever-evolving contours of the western landscape. Formerly immersed in a career in high-tech, Burke now channels her passion into her artistic practice, often exploring the presence of technology as both a disruptor and unifier within the landscape, echoing the complexities of the modern human experience.
Burke's series, Memory Building, was selected for LensCulture Critics' Choice 2024. She received the Best In Show award in Colorado Photographic Arts Center’s 2024 Annual Members’ Show. In 2023, Burke was a finalist for the UK’s Earth Photo competition and exhibited at London's Royal Geographical Society and multiple Forestry England sites, she was named the International Runner-Up for the Australian Geographic Environmental Award at the Head On Photo Festival and exhibited along the Bondi Beach Promenade in Sydney, and she was a finalist in the Hellerau Portrait Photography Award in Dresden, Germany. Her work was selected as a winner of Photolucida’s 2022 Critical Mass Top 50 and LensCulture Critics' Choice 22. In 2021, she was awarded first place in the Lenscratch Vernacular Photography Exhibition, won the Imago Lisboa Photography Festival in Portugal, and was a semi-finalist for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today in Washington DC.
Burke’s work is exhibited widely throughout the US and internationally at institutions such as Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Candela Gallery in Virginia, Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts, Los Angeles Center for Photography, Oceanside Museum of Art in California, Museum of Nature in Cantabria, Spain, and Association of Photographers in London.
Her images have been featured in The New York Times, L.A. Times, The Times (London), Hyperallergic, Sierra Club Magazine, Newsweek Japan, Elle Decor Italy, Fraction, All About Photo, KATALOG, Dezeen, EXIT Image and Culture, Dodho Magazine, The Riv Magazine and the Daily Mail. Her work is held in public and private collections including the Wieland Collection in Atlanta and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Her book is included in over 45 libraries worldwide.
Burke’s monograph, Fauxliage: Disguised Cell Phone Towers of the American West, was published by Daylight Books in 2021. Ann M. Jastrab, Executive Director of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California, contributed the forward.
See her website for a complete CV.
More Info
Website: AtelierLeMay.com
Instagram: @atelierlemay
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