About

Mary Beth Willis is an American photographer (Miami 1976) who has lived in England for twenty years. She is a self-taught photographer, who learned to focus her lens by capturing her daughters and the flowers growing in her garden and by the wayside in England. 

She is researching the life and work of the photographer Dorothea Lange and her husband Paul Taylor, at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Mary Beth uses an old Rolleiflex T film camera as part of her practice. She is currently curating a collection of Dorothea Lange’s work and creating her own work Panacea based in North Florida and Southern Georgia, the sparsely populated part of the American South where she was raised. 

Her work considers themes of home, migration, and the erosion of our ability to live, play and be oneself and how this erosion coincides with the erosion of the land we inhabit. The land close to the water’s edge.