Volusia County Courthouse - Betty Press

Cotillion Evening, 2004
Black-and-white photograph

Betty Press
Hattiesburg, Miss.

Betty Press is best known for the pictures she took in Africa, where she lived and worked as a freelance photojournalist from 1987 to 1995. Now living in Mississippi and teaching at the University of Southern Mississippi, she continues to photograph in Africa as well as the South, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and Cuba. Her photographs have been published in many major magazines and newspapers.

She has had numerous exhibitions including one of African photographs in 2001 at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach. Her work has been selected in many juried competitions. In 1999, her photographs were featured in a book titled “The New Africa: Dispatches from a Changing Continent.”

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