Annette LeMay Burke is an award-winning visual artist and a Northern California native. A longtime observer of the evolution of the western U.S. landscape, Burke’s work is about connection to the land. She is interested in how our environment changes over time and the telltale artifacts — both tangible and temporal — that are left behind. Burke received a BA in Geology from the University of California at Berkeley. After a decade long career in high-tech, she now focuses on her artistic practice.
Burke's images are exhibited widely. In 2023, her images were selected for the UK’s Earth Photo competition and displayed at London's Royal Geographical Society. She was chosen as the international runner-up for 2023 Australian Geographic’s Head On Environmental Award and exhibited along the Bondi Beach Promenade in Sydney. She won Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 50 in 2022, the 2021 Lenscratch Vernacular Photography Exhibition and the 2021 Imago Lisboa Photography Festival. Her images have been featured in prominent publications including The New York Times, L.A. Times, and The Times. Burke’s monograph, “Fauxliage: Disguised Cell Phone Towers of the American West”, was published by Daylight Books in 2021.
