Alexis Culver was born in Goshen, Indiana in 1981 and spent her childhood in both North Webster and Bloomington. She obtained her Bachelor's degree from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina, where she studied under photographer Eric Baden. After working in a commercial photography studio in Portland, Oregon and a contemporary art gallery in New York City, Culver returned to Indiana where she received her M.F.A. in photography from Indiana University in Bloomington.
"The Grocery" body of work was inspired by multiple visits and conversations with her grandmother, Gladys Culver, who just recently marked her 100th year. The Culvers owned and operated a grocery store in North Webster, Indiana, a small lakeside town, from 1939 to 1974. After the business closed the store remained, housing old inventory until it was used and storing items that the family could not or would not permanently discard. Culver, who had repeatedly explored the grocery as a child, visited and photographed the interior and contents over the course of four years, documenting the history of her family and providing a window into a bygone era.
Culver is currently an instructor of photography and is working on an ongoing series of biographic photographs inspired by her friends, family, travels and the Indiana landscape. You can learn more about her from her website.
