Melonie Bennett is a photographer who lives and works in Maine. She was born in 1969 and grew up on a dairy farm in Gorham, Maine. She graduated from Maine College of Art with a BFA in photography. In 1991 she began working as an assistant to the photographer Judy Glickman Lauder.
Her long project is about her own family. She photographed relatives and friends from 1990 to 2011. The black and white pictures are in her first book, Holy Cow! (GOST Books, 2026). It has 176 pages and 66 images. Her brother Merritt wrote stories for it. She worked with simple film cameras, including a Pentax K1000 and a Contax T3.
Her work has been shown in more than sixty exhibitions in the United States and abroad. Photographs from Holy Cow! were selected for the travelling exhibition PRESENCE: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder.
