TO BE DEVELOPED, TO BE CONTINUED
This work traces a daughter’s transition from 12 to 13 and a mother’s journey to 50—highlighting the daughter’s vibrant yet fragile spirit as she rushes toward womanhood, and the mother’s wistful, irreverent gaze as she becomes increasingly overlooked by a society that idolizes youth. Winner of the Tall Poppy Publishing Award; launched at Photo Sydney and the New York Art Book Fair in 2025. Order a signed copy.
THE LONG SHADOW
The Long Shadow pays tribute to unpublished images by Marion Post Wolcott, the first woman hired as a full-time photographer for the Farm Security Administration in 1938. Odette Elix England spent three years traveling to and from Virginia, capturing images in and around the lands Marion once owned. This project received the Ansel Adams Research Fellowship from the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, a grant from the Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund for Historical Photographic Research, and a publishing grant from Polycopies & Co. Order a signed copy.
WOMAN WEARING RING SHIELDS FACE FROM FLASH
This project highlights the complex relationships between guns, cameras, hands, and violence against women. Recipient of a Puffin Foundation grant and shortlisted for the 2023 Images Vevey Book Award, it was published by Skinnerboox in 2023. Order a signed copy.
DAIRY CHARACTER
Dairy Character is a loose chronicle of growing up female in a rural farming community. It combines recent photographs, family snapshots, archival images, and twenty short stories to highlight similarities between the objectification of dairy cows and women. Winner of the 2021 Light Work Book Award and shortlisted for Australian Photobook of the Year. Order a signed copy.
CROPPING US IN
This series of unique photographic collages combines original press photographs overlaid with enlarged snapshots of women who farmed and worked the land but were left out of news stories about agriculture in the United States.
YOUR DISTANCE MAKES ME CLOSE TO YOU
These photographs document the sinewy relationship between homesickness, beauty, and finding a home in being away.
NATURE IS A PHOTOGRAPH
Photographs made during an artist-writer residency in Lecce, Italy with Mark Steinmetz and Irina Rozovsky.
PAST PAPER // PRESENT MARKS
This collaborative project of unique camera-less photograms was made at Robert Rauschenberg’s property in Captiva, Florida. The images – created using expired 1970s gelatin silver paper found in Rauschenberg’s darkroom – were submerged and exposed in his swimming pool and then developed and fixed with expired chemistry. Odette Elix England and Jennifer Garza-Cuen employed an array of interventions before immersing the expired paper in water. Exposures were made overnight and throughout the day, allowing different levels and intensities of sunlight, moonlight, and water to penetrate the paper. Order a signed copy.