bio

bio
Christa Kreeger Bowden was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She currently lives and makes work in Lexington, Virginia. She earned her MFA in photography from the University of Georgia, and a BA in photography and film communication from Tulane University. She is an Associate Professor of Art at Washington & Lee University, where she started the program in photography in 2006. Her work explores the use of a flatbed scanner as a camera, as well as alternative and 19th century photographic processes. She was the recipient of a 2009-2010 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, and was a 2005 nominee for the Santa Fe Prize for Photography.