Barbara Bossworth

Barbara Bosworth is a photographer whose large-format images explore the relationships between humans and the natural world. Whether chronicling hunters or bird banders or the seasonal changes that transform mountains and meadows, Bosworth’s attention to the world around her results in images that inspire viewers to look closely.

Bosworth is a professor emeritus of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her images display a generous attention to small facts, while her large-scale triptychs reveal a panoramic awareness that lets viewers glimpse relationships between frames. Bosworth reminds viewers that we shape the rest of nature and that it also shapes us.

Bosworth’s work is widely exhibited, notably in recent retrospectives at the Denver Art Museum in Colorado, Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona. Her publications include, The Sea (Radius Books, 2022), The Heavens (Radius Books, 2018), The Meadow (Radius Books, 2015), Natural Histories (Radius Books, 2013), Trees: National Champions (MIT Press; Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 2005).