Yearning for Faith to Preserve Myself, to see you Completely New

Billie Carter-Rankin (b.1995) is a visual artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She experiments with photography, darkroom processing, and archived images to explore loss within personal and collective memory. Her work primarily focuses on the absence of information, and the potential that is created as a result of that absence. Carter-Rankin has contributed to publications such as TIME Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Oxford American, and The Guardian. Her work has been recognized on The most memorable New York Times illustrations lists for two consecutive years, as well as the Best Artist Illustrations list for The Guardian US. She graduated with a MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2020, and her BA in Media, Journalism, and Film from Howard University in 2018. 

Carter-Rankin lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.