Maggie Taylor won the Santa Fe Center for Photography's Project Competition in 2004.
12 Facts About Maggie Taylor
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Maggie Taylor's work has been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe and is represented within the permanent collections of several galleries and museums.
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Maggie Taylor's work has evolved from black and white urban landscapes to personal and colorful narrative images.
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Maggie Taylor produces prints by taking digital photographs and scanning objects into a computer using a flatbed scanner, then layering and manipulating these images using Adobe Photoshop into a surrealistic montage.
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Uelsmann didn't like the program, but Taylor was intrigued by its abilities and started to experiment with it more.
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Maggie Taylor grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and later moved to Florida at the age of 11.
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Maggie Taylor attended Chatham Hall, Chatham, VA during high school and graduated in 1979.
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Maggie Taylor received her masters in 1987 from the University of Florida.
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Maggie Taylor says that often people think photography is autobiographical and her work is definitely a reflection of her life.
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Maggie Taylor began creating her surrealist work with that tool, breaking ground help to create the modern "photoshopped" look.
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Maggie Taylor felt drawn to the work's visually rich text and acknowledged it was the type of images she connects with in her own work.
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In 2018, Maggie Taylor released Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there accompanying Lewis Carroll's text.