Mayita Mendez
Explorations of Women’s Relationships With Nature
Mayita Mendez is a professional photographer born in El Salvador, raised in NYC, and living in BC Canada. She worked as a photojournalist in New York and was on staff for the daily New York City based newspaper Newsday. Her photography has been featured in major newspapers across the USA, from The New York Times to the Los Angeles Times. She was a awarded a Presidential Scholarship at the Rhode Island School of Design where she received her MFA. She has exhibited her work on both Protection Island and galleries in New York City. She is currently working on a project that investigates women’s relationships with the natural world.
Participants: Celestine Aleck, Falon Crosby, Amy Hall, Sadie Hall, Finnian Johnson, Summer Laurie, Minah Lee
