Liz Borda was born and raised in New York. She graduated from Hunter College with a double major in Media Studies and Art Studio. She studied photojournalism at Ohio University's graduate program. Currently, she is a freelance photographer and is based in New York.

Liz received a 3rd place Ippies Award for Best Photo Essay or Online Slideshow in 2012 for the group piece We Contain Multitudes in the The Indypendent and 2nd Place in Visual Arts at the Ohio University Student Expo in 2010. She received the Nikon Vision - Santa Fe Workshops Scholarship in 2008, Santa Fe Workshops Scholarship in 2007 and was selected to participate in the Focus on Monferrato Project in Italy in 2006.

Liz's work has been published in:

Latina Magazine
The Indypendent
NYU School of Law Magazine
Gawker.com
Valleywag.com
Jalopnik.com
Times Ledger Newspapers
Queens Chronicle
Manhattan Times
Travel Agent Magazine

Liz has also worked with these organizations:

American Red Cross in Greater New York
Project HAPPY (Hunter Activity Program for Parents and Youth)
Neighborhood Coalition For Shelter


Exhibitions:

• Ohio University Student Expo Athens, Ohio 2010.
• Vague Terrain, Manhattanville Group Exhibition New York, New York 2008.
• Hot Sauce, Silent Art Auction Benefit for Village Kids Nursery Scholarship Fund
  Chelsea, New York 2007.
• Uptown Stroll, What We See Group Exhibition Inwood, New York 2007.
• We Are All Photographers Now! Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland 2007.
• You Can Do That Too Brooklyn, New York 2006 and 2007.
• Uptown Stroll Inwood, New York 2006.
• Below 220 Inwood, New York 2006.
• Art in the Park Inwood, New York 2006 .
• Hunter College Group Exhibition Mark Feldstein Memorial New York, New York 2002.

Coming soon in September 2012 Ladyride solo show, Freddy's Bar Brooklyn, New York.