Ansley West Rivers is an American photographer whose work looks at where landscape and people meet. She has a BFA from the University of Georgia and an MFA in photography from the California College of the Arts. She lives with her husband and two children in Victor, Idaho.
In 2013 she began Seven Rivers, a project about seven North American rivers from source to sea: the Colorado, Missouri/Mississippi, Columbia, Rio Grande, Tuolumne, Altamaha and Hudson. She works on film with medium and large-format cameras. For Seven Rivers she uses a large-format camera and a masking technique. She exposes parts of one sheet of film in different places and builds one image. The book Seven Rivers was published by Aint Bad Publisher in 2019.
Her work is in collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Microsoft Corporation and the Telfair Museums. Seven Rivers has been shown at the Telfair Academy in Savannah (2019) and at PhotoLondon (2022).
She lived thirty minutes from Grand Teton National Park but had never really photographed there. In the spring of 2020, when the Covid lockdowns emptied the park, she made her first photograph there, at Blacktail Ponds.
