Megan Baker

In 1991, while most artists were off at college getting degrees, Megan Baker was still living in her mother’s uterus. Then one fateful night in a central Illinois hospital, she escaped… She wasn’t born into a family of photographers, and her mother is incapable of figuring out how to turn on a camera. Where she got the knack for photography remains a mystery. The love of it started around the age of four, when Megan picked up the family Polaroid and began documenting the melodramatic lives of her toys. Megan joined 4-H at age 9, and used it as an outlet for her work. In the first year, she won both county and state photography competitions, including ‘Best of the Best’ Illinois State Awards. That continued until age 13, when Megan lost for the first time. Being a sore loser, Megan ran around the backyard with a rubber mallet and hit things. Her parents did not sign her up for 4-H the following year. But by then she was already making the money from print sales and weddings. At 14, the small town Christian school she had attended for seven years called her at 9 pm on a Sunday night and told her she could not come back. As an attempt to not offend people, we will just say that it was not her fault. Megan began schooling herself shortly after, and her parents became concerned after she generally became a recluse and stopped witnessing the light of day. After an attempt to get her to make friends, she came across an abandoned house, and decided to cope with the changing of her life in the best way she saw possible, taking pictures. In early 2006, she set off on road trips to small towns that had experienced an economic downfall, searching for more abandoned buildings, and exploring the ruins of people’s past lives. Because of movies like The Hills Have Eyes, most trips went like this: “Megan, do you want to get out and take pictures?” “Uhh nooo, I’m scared… oh my god, that cat has no tail! Genetically modified cat! Genetically modified cat! We must get out of here!” Regardless of her fears, photos were still taken and a series of photographs called ‘Decampment’ was created. After a break in 2007 to work on music photography and school work, she began her second series, Little Boxes. In 2009, she went on her first tour as the photographer for Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers. She currently lives in Chicago, IL, and is concentrating on music photography, as well as her upcoming third series. www.mbakerphotography.com/
Written by Megan Baker in third person, in an attempt to sound important.
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