Born in London in 1976, Walead Beshty received a BA in studio art from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (1999), and an MFA in photography from Yale School of Art, New Haven (2002). Although he has worked in a variety of mediums, Beshty primarily explores the myriad ways to conceive and develop the photographic image as well as photography’s relationship to reality.