Monica Denevan

Monica Denevan studied photography at San Francisco State University. Her ongoing series "Songs of the River: Portraits from Burma" began in 2000. She works with a medium-format camera and prints from negatives in her traditional darkroom. Recently, she has been photographing with a low-tech Holga camera, printing from the negatives onto photographic paper or onto aluminum. Denevan's photographs have been exhibited internationally including solo shows at Scott Nichols Gallery (Sonoma, CA), Duncan Miller Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), Tao Gallery (Hong Kong), and Serinda Gallery Annex (Bangkok). She was a Photolucida Critical Mass top 50 Finalist in 2019 and 2012. In 2016, ten of Denevan's images were published in a book of Lao photographs published by Nazraeli Press and Friends Without A Border in NYC. In 2020, she was one of 25 artists included in Photo-Eye Gallery's (Santa Fe, NM) first ever juried exhibition. She is the 2020 All About Photo first place award recipient. Monica Denevan is represented by Scott Nichols Gallery (Sonoma, CA), Capital Culture Gallery (Norfolk, UK), and Open House Bookshop (Bangkok). She lives and works in San Francisco.