Cara Phillips

Cara Phillips was born in Detroit, MI. Her history with the beauty industry began as a child model for Ford Models. She spent her summers in New York City from the age of eight to fifteen, doing catalogs, commercials, and theater productions. In her early twenties she worked as a make-up artist, specializing in ‘make-overs’ of everyday women at luxury department stores.

In 2004 she returned to school and began studying photography at Sarah Lawrence College with Joel Sternfeld & conceptual artist Penelope Umbrico. Since graduating in 2007, she has received numerous awards. Recent NYC exhibitions include Hey Hot Shot, at The Jen Bekman Gallery, and the Humble Arts Foundation’s group show, “Things are Strange.” A solo show of her work was exhibited at the Suffolk University Art Gallery in Boston this fall. She is in several private collections.

In addition to her own photography projects she and Amy Elkins are the co-founders/curators of Women in Photography an online exhibition project featuring the work of emerging and established female artists and she is a member of the recently formed POC | North America, a network of European and North American photographers. She lives and works in Brooklyn. www.wipnyc.org

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