Ashley Kouri

Ashley Kouri is an Ohio-based photographer specializing in the wet plate collodion process. Her work explores themes of grief and the relationship between identity and place.

Rooted in historical photographic techniques, Kouri’s practice embraces the nature of the wet plate collodion process as a way of studying time and what has been left behind by absence and loss. Drawing from personal experiences of displacement and relocation, as well as Appalachian folklore and storytelling traditions, her work examines the ways landscapes become intertwined with memory and how the idea of home evolves over time.

Kouri received her MFA in Photography from Ohio University and her BFA in Photography from the University of Akron.