Eva Woolridge, a photographer, explores the sexual, spiritual, and emotional nature of femininity, using lighting and composition to convey strength, perseverance, vulnerability, and vitality, transcending surface-level labels of people of color. Her photographic essays include “Peeled Paint” (2014), conveying her understanding of ego and spirituality, and “Embrace Your Essence” (2015), a series focused on young women's journeys toward self-love —defining what they find beautiful about themselves. Many of the narratives included illnesses, challenges to meet Western standards of beauty, and quirks that once negatively affected their self-esteem.
Eva continues to use visual narratives to convey a tone of a new, inclusive wave of feminine energy through her gaze as a queer, woman of color, while commenting on the social & cultural conditions of her communities. Raised in SOMa, she attended Columbia High School, and graduated from the University of Maryland–College Park in 2014.