BIOGRAPHY

Carrie Becker (b. 1978, St. Louis, MO), is a contemporary photographer. She is best known for her 2011 body of work, “Barbie Trashes Her Dreamhouse”, a viral collection of images that imagined the titular hero as a hoarder. Post undergrad, Becker spent seven years working in commercial photography studios in Chicago. After moving to Kansas for graduate school, she received an MFA in sculpture. 

 

In 2010 she began combining her studio lighting and 3d design backgrounds, hand-building and photographing 1/6th scale dioramas.  To create these trompe l’oeils, materials such as craft sticks and foam core were used, and the scenes were photographed at low angles.  Due to the demanding nature of the dioramas, hundreds of hours are necessary to complete some scenes.

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Previously Ms. Becker’s teaching experience has included photography classes at Washington University in St. Louis.  Her work as been featured in TIME, Huffpost, and BUST, as well as on PBS and KSDK. She lives in a Victorian home in the city with her SO and two cats. 

 

Welcome to Carrie Becker Art, where fine art photography meets the intricate world of trompe l'oeil dioramas.