Audrey Ryland - Photographer and Artist
Audrey Ryland is a photographer and artist from Richmond, Virginia.
Guided by the sentiment that everyone’s
story holds power, Audrey challenges
viewers to embrace the unfamiliar and
to engage with their world and those who inhabit it.
Her photography explores the fantasies one creates in their mind about people, places, and things and what happens when they collide with the realities of life through staged and unstaged narrative.
The abstruse, the exciting, the confusing, the bored.
Education
2023 – 2027 The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah
2015 – 2023 The New Community School, Richmond
Features and Awards
2026 SCAD Lacoste Photography Show, France
2026 Time & Space, a Pinhole Photograph Exhibit
2025 Two photographs in SCAD Fine Arts Showcase, Savannah
2025 "Conversations with Audrey Ryland", Voyage Savannah
2025 GHOSTS, GOBLINS & OTHER APPARITIONS EXHIBITION, Lenscratch
2024 "Somewhere" Online Exhibition, Loosen Art
2024 Photograph in SCAD Fine Arts Showcase, Savannah
2018-2022 4 Gold and 12 Silver Keys, Scholastics Art and Writing Awards, Richmond
Work
2025 Event Photographer
Bunny Ware (September 2025 - Current)
2025 Freelance Photographer
The Savannah Morning News (2025)
2025 Freelance Photographer
Mentorship
2026 - 2027 AFMP IV: Annual FOTOFILMIC mentoring program with mentors Stacy Kranitz, Lucy Conticello, and Christian Patterson.