Born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1960, Sheila Newbery is a San Francisco Bay Area photographer who works with traditional printing techniques, including the platinum-palladium method. She studied art history at Trinity College and English literature at Princeton University. Her previous projects have included Ordinary Dancers, shot in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (2008) and Ohio Woods, platinum-palladium prints of an evening's snowfall during a cross-country journey by train (2013).