BIO

Pettit earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Minnesota, graduating cum laude in Art Education. After college Bev worked in fine art, technical and art education positions with a stint in teaching photography at a community college in California.

Deciding on photography as her artistic medium of choice came naturally when Bev moved to Hong Kong in 1991. Carrying a 35mm film camera was naturally compatible with her travel style as she backpacked the cities and back roads of Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, India and China. For the next six years she documented Asian culture for personal projects as well as magazines, HK tourism, commercial assignments and educational book publishers worldwide while working full-time as research print manager for a large American investment bank. In 1996 Pettit moved to London where she worked at the European headquarters for the bank for another three years.

She moved back to the US in 1999 to live in Northern Arizona. Today Pettit specializes in photographing horses, both domestic and wild.

Exhibitions and Awards

1995, “Hong Kong, Through the Local Lens”, HK Tourist Association, HK

2004, Millard Sheets Gallery, “New Photography Exhibit”, Pomona, CA

2003, Solo exhibit, Java Junction, Santa Clarita, CA

2002, “California Works”, Sacramento, CA

2002, PHOTO LA, 11th Los Angeles Photographic Print Exposition,

Women in Photography International, Santa Monica,CA

2003, Long Beach Arts Council, “Color Outside the Lines” , Long Beach, CA

2007, Fresh Eyes, Phippen Art Museum, Prescott, AZ

2007, Equine Photographers Network, Juried Competition

2008, Equine Photographers Network, Juried Competition

2008, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, “All Things Horses”

2008, Cowboys and Indians Magazine , Category Winner, Landscape Division

2008, Art Horse Magazine, Ex Arte Equinus II, Two images placed

2009, Cowboys and Indians Magazine, Action division placement

2009, Horses in Art Magazine, Juried Cover Competition

2009, Photo Shop User Magazine, Cover and Featured Photographer, April ‘09

2009, American Royal Western Art Show and Sale, Kansas City, MO, May ‘09

2009, Arizona Highways Magazine, Annual Photo Contest Winner

2009, Equine Photographer’s Network, Category Winner, Fine Art, Professional Division

2009, Equine Photographer’s Network, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th placements, Professional Division

Publications

Business Traveller Asia Pacific, Indian Wildlife Parks, 1993

India, FACES: The Magazine About People, Cobblestone Publishing and the American Museum of Natural History, 1993

Women and Children of Asia, 1994, Amnesty International, Hong Kong

Hong Kong; The Hub of the Orient, Where East Meets West, 1995, Passport Books Guide to Hong Kong

Photo Art International, The Art and Craft of Photography, 1998 – Creative Monochrome Ltd., Surrey, England

Ticket to India, 1999 Globetrotter, Carolrhoda Books, Lerner Publishing

India; Carolrhhoda Books, Lerner Publishing Group, Minnesota, 1999

Response Magazine, 1999

Hong Kong Trams, A Close-Up Guide; Pacific Century Publishers, Hong Kong

Journeys, The Globus and Cosmos Travel Magazine, 1997

Nature Photographer, Corbett National Park, India, 1994

Winona Daily News, Minnesota, travel section, Estancia San Gara, Argentina

Ex Arte Equinus book, 2009 – Art Horse Magazine

Wingspann Farms, Champion Registered Haflingers, 13243 Watergap Rd,

Williams, OR 97544 (www.wingspannfarm.com)