Tracy L Chandler is a photographic artist based in Los Angeles, CA. Her work explores humanity and her own personal story reflected through portraiture, landscape, and narrative. Her photographs address themes of time, place, memory, seeing, and being seen. Tracy exhibits work as photographic prints, short films, as well as photobooks.
Chandler earned her MFA from the Hartford Art School in 2021 where she was awarded multiple merit scholarships and the Mary Frey Book Grant. In 2023, she had a solo exhibition at Gallery 169 in Santa Monica as well as screened a short film of her project A Poor Sort of Memory at the Arles Rencontres photography festival in France. Tracy has participated in multiple group exhibitions including The Oregon Contemporary, The Museum of Warsaw, Baxter St Gallery, These Days Gallery, Candela Gallery, and The Humid. Her work has garnered many recognitions including scholarships and awards from the Hopper Prize Foundation, Lucie Foundation, Critical Mass, PH Museum, Arles Book Awards, Charcoal Book Club, Urbanautica Institute, and Los Angeles Center of Photography. Her work have been featured in publications including Fotofilmic, California Sun, and the Humble Arts Foundation. Her first monograph, A Poor Sort of Memory, published by Deadbeat Club, will be available fall of 2024.
Beyond her art practice, Chandler is a Contributing Editor at Lenscratch Magazine, with a column dedicated to her interviews with photobook artists.