Photo by Liz Borda and Josh Auckenthaler
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 in graduate school. Currently, she is a freelance photographer and is based in New York.
She has received awards from the Ippies awards for work in The Indypendent, Ohio University's Student Expo for Visual Arts and was selected to participate in the Focus on Monferrato Project in Italy.
Her work has been published in Narratively, NYC Art Parasites, Latina Magazine, The Indypendent, NYU School of Law Magazine, Gawker, Valleywag, Jalopnik, Times Ledger Newspapers, Queens Chronicle, Manhattan Times and Travel Agent Magazine.
Liz has worked with non-profit, humanitarian organizations and institutions such as Brooklyn Boatworks, Girl Scouts of Greater New York, American Red Cross in Greater New York, Polytechnic Institute of New York, Project HAPPY (Hunter Activity Program for Parents and Youth) and Neighborhood Coalition for Shelter.
Exhibitions
Every Woman, Art Show/Auction, Industry City Brooklyn, New York 2017
A Woman's View, Matted LIC, Long Island City, New York 2017
Rising Waters: Photographs of Sandy, Museum of the City of New York, New York 2013 - 2014
SANDY: Devastation, Document, Drive, The Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn, New York 2013
Lady Ride Solo Show, Freddy’s Bar Brooklyn, New York 2012
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 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