Peyton Fulford
Peyton Fulford (b. 1994) is an American photographer born and raised in Georgia and based in Los Angeles. She studied Photography at Columbus State University. Having grown up in a family of ultra-runners, cyclists, and kayakers, she found freedom in the natural landscape, even though as a young queer person she struggled to find belonging. Her portrait series “Tenderness” is a direct response to those experiences, exploring the notion of intimacy and identity among the LGBTQ+ community in the American South. Through her attentiveness to detail and nuance, her pictures piece together stories of human connection and the surrounding environment. Peyton sets her sight on a diverse range of extraordinary, thought-provoking and at times even controversial narratives.
Her photography has been shown world-wide in solo and group exhibitions, including A Long Arc: Photography and the American South Since 1845 at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art; Photo London at Somerset House; and the Photo Vogue Festival in Milan. She was a finalist for Magnum Photos’ Inge Morath Award, and recipient of the Women Photograph + Nikon Grant and the Firecracker Photographic Grant. Some of her clients include Apple, Bloomberg, Dove, Ford, Gucci, Google, TIME, The New Yorker, and many others.