Annette LeMay Burke
Piercy Rd, San Jose, CA - August 2022 | November 2025 (from the series Prime Location)
Harris Rd, Salinas, CA - July 2024 | August 2025 (from the series Prime Location)
Mariposa Rd, Stockton, CA - May 2022 | August 2025 (from the series Prime Location)
Bifurcation, Niland (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
The Border, Calexico (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
Abandoned, Niland (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
The Power Structure, Palmdale (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
Alternatives, Desert Hot Springs (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
Kindred Alignment, Black Sand Beach, Shelter Cove (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
One Track, Shelter Cove (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
Shifting Winds, Dillon Beach (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
Evasive Oasis, Hidden Palms (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
The Old Ways, Cabazon (infrared image from - Rift: Unearthing the Divide Along the San Andreas Fault)
Fauxliage - Cypress Row, Littleorck, CA
Fauxliage - Fake on Fake, Palmdale, CA
Fauxliage - Trojan Horse, Alpine, CA
Fauxliage - The Middle Cross, Mesa, AZ
Welcome (from Memory Building series)
My Playhouse (from Memory Building series)
Bio
Annette LeMay Burke is a photographic artist and Northern California native based in Silicon Valley. With a degree in geology from the University of California, Berkeley, she has long been attuned to the shifting contours of the western landscape. Before devoting herself to fine-art photography, she worked in the high-tech industry. The combination of those experiences allows her to bring a unique combination of scientific insight and creative vision to her photography. She explores how infrastructures—technological, geological, architectural, and domestic —reshape the land and mirror the complexities of contemporary life.
Burke has received wide recognition for her work, including LensCulture Critics’ Choice, Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 50, Best in Show at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center’s Annual Members’ Exhibition, and finalist honors in the UK’s Earth Photo competition, where she exhibited at the Royal Geographical Society in London and multiple Forestry England sites. She was also the International Runner-Up for the Australian Geographic Environmental Award at the Head On Photo Festival in Sydney and a finalist for the Hellerau Portrait Photography Award in Dresden, Germany. Additional accolades include winning the Lenscratch Vernacular Photography Exhibition, the Imago Lisboa Photography Festival in Portugal, and being a semi-finalist for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today in Washington, D.C.
Her work has been exhibited in more than 100 shows across the globe, including the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, Candela Gallery, Griffin Museum of Photography, Los Angeles Center for Photography, Oceanside Museum of Art, the Museum of Nature (Cantabria, Spain), and Photo London.
Her images have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Times (UK), Il Fotografo, Hyperallergic, Sierra Club Magazine, Newsweek Japan, Elle Decor Italy, Fraction, All About Photo, KATALOG, Dezeen, EXIT Image and Culture, The Riv Magazine, L’Oeil de la Photographie, and the Daily Mail. Her work is held in public and private collections, including the Wieland Collection (Atlanta) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
Burke’s monograph, Fauxliage: Disguised Cell Phone Towers of the American West, was published by Daylight Books in 2021. Ann M. Jastrab, Executive Director of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California, contributed the forward.
See her website for a complete CV.
More Info
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