Peyton Fulford
Now based in Los Angeles, Peyton Fulford is an American photographer born and raised in Georgia. 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.