2012 Benefit Auction: Headlands at 30

Laura McPhee

Smoke Above Fisher Creek, 2005

C-print

30 x 40 in.

Courtesy of the artist & Carroll and Sons

Retail Value: $5,750

Laura McPhee is a photographer who has worked, most recently, in the woods of Idaho, New York City, and Kolkata, India. Born in Manhattan, she grew up toward the end of a dirt road in central New Jersey. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Rhode Island School of Design. Her work, which ranges from portrait to landscape to still life, is widely exhibited nationally and internationally. She is a professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and lives in Brookline, MA.