Ashley Gates

Ashley Gates is a photographer from Jackson, Mississippi. She earned BA degrees in philosophy and English literature from the College of Charleston in South Carolina before spending thirteen years in New York City, where she developed her commitment to photography. She returned to Mississippi in 2019 and currently maintains a photography studio in Jackson. Her photographs have been exhibited nationally at venues including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans; Aperture Foundation in New York; Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Massachusetts; Masur Museum of Art in Monroe, Louisiana; Pensacola Museum of History in Florida; Southeast Center for Photography in Greenville, South Carolina; and Jackson State University in Mississippi. Gates‘s self-published book of found Polaroids, We Didn’t See Each Other After That, was showcased at the Phoenix Art Museum and recognized as one of photo-eye’s Best Photobooks of 2016. She is the recipient of a Mississippi Arts Commission Visual Arts Fellowship for 2024–2025.