Patti Levey is a Fine Art Photographer who has been using self-portrait photography as a means to empowerment and healing for over thirty years. Born in New York City in 1959, she also lived in San Francisco, California for twelve years before making Santa Fe, New Mexico her home. She received a bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College in New York and a master's degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University in San Francisco. She also studied at the Phototherapy Institute in Vancouver, British Columbia and authored a master’s thesis using Self-Portrait Photography as a form of therapy with women.

Levey's work has been shown extensively in New York, San Francisco and Santa Fe, as well as, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. A contemporary of Cindy Sherman and Francesca Woodman, Levey has been called “Frida Kahlo with a camera.”!

For Levey, self-portrait photography is both a political statement as well as a spiritual practice.

"It is as radical for a woman to photograph herself as it is for her to love herself in any society that values women primarily as objects." 

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