About the Photographer

            Christina M. Taylor-Haley is a photographic visionary known for her work that focuses on women and conversations. She brings the everyday moments of life to an artistic level through her images. Born outside Philadelphia, P.A. she has lived the majority of her life in Minnesota. The influence of the East Coast appears in her work as a particular gritty sophistication in the attitude of her style which is paired with a soft compassion from her Midwest experience. Christina has been an artist for as long as she can remember both musically and visually, finding her true passion in photography towards the end of high school. From there the camera has never left her side, even appearing as an accessory to her own wedding dress, so that she could photograph her wedding from the bride’s perspective.

            Christina studied photography and fine-art at the College of Visual Arts in Minnesota and the Art Institute of Boston in Massachusetts were she received her BFA in photography. After school she returned to Minnesota and worked in arts administration for the Minnesota State Arts Board. While working at MSAB Christina also started her own photography business, focusing on her fine art photography and being available for creative wedding commissions. During this time Christina married her long time friend and they now live in their 1875 Victorian home in downtown Stillwater, MN.

She has an affinity for the charm of classical style paired with a modern simplistic line. Christina enjoys photographing her subjects in a documentary style becoming the story teller about her subjects through her images in both her personal work and her weddings. She photographs mostly with traditional high-speed black and white film, although, she is moving into the digital realm for some images. Focuses on her women in conversations series as her main body of work, it is in these that she explores the relationships of the women she encounters. Within these she has discovered a continuous dialogue between herself, the women, the viewer and the images. This dialogue becomes a cyclical pattern of conversation about the previous. Christina has photographed some of the women in her series over the last eight years. She has had the opportunity to capture the everyday moments along with the momentous changes that happen in life.