Preston Gannaway is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American documentary photographer and artist based in Northern California. Her work centers around intimate narratives about families and marginalized groups while examining the relationships between individual, community and landscape.

Gannaway is best known for her long-form projects like Remember Me, which was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. The first book from the series was published by GOST in 2023 and was included in multiple photobook of the year lists. The project is on-going and now in its 20th year.

In 2014 she published her first book, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, about the changing character of a seaside neighborhood in Virginia. Her photographs and artist books are held in private and public collections including the High Museum of Art, Chrysler Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Duke University and Stanford University. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in venues around the world including the Everson Museum of Art, Griffin Museum of Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art and San Francisco International Airport Museum.

In 2024, she was named a finalist for the Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture. She was a Light Work Artist in Residence in 2018 and a Pollner Distinguished Professor at the University of Montana in 2019. In addition to long-form projects, she does commissions for publications and brands such as The New Yorker, WIRED, Airbnb and Rivian. She was an inaugural board member for Women Photograph, a non-profit that elevates women and non-binary visual journalists.

Born and raised in North Carolina, she lives in a cabin in Sonoma County, California with her partner Nicole Frugé and their calico cat Kiki.

See her work at https://www.prestongannaway.com or on Instagram at https://www.prestongannaway.com.