Preston Gannaway
Preston Gannaway (b. 1977) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning documentary photographer and artist born and raised in North Carolina, currently based in Sonoma County, California. For over 20 years, her work has focused on intimate stories of American families and marginalized communities in the context of gender identity, class, and landscape.
Gannaway's career is decorated with awards, grants, solo and two- person exhibitions, and teaching gigs. Her work has been acquired in permanent collections at Light Work, the Chrysler Museum of Art, Stanford University, Duke University, The Newseum, the Indie Photobook Library, the International Gay/Lesbian Archive, the Franklin Furnace Artists' Books Collection, and the High Museum of Art. Gannaway also shoots editorially, with clients such as The Atlantic, ESPN the Magazine, WIRED, Oxford American, Mother Jones, TIME, and Washington Post. In 2014, Gannaway published Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, which explored the changing character of a seaside neighborhood in Virginia. Her second monograph is from an on-going project called Remember Me (GOST, 2023).