Ashley Markle (b. 1995) is an Ohio born and fled photographer, currently working between Brooklyn, NY and whatever patch of grass she can find. After painting in high school, she received her Bachelor’s in Film from Kent State University. She then moved to Brooklyn and began studying photography at the International Center of Photography where she completed the Continuing Education Track Program followed by the Advanced Track Program in which she received a full scholarship. Her background in painting and film as well as her intense ability to vividly dream every night since birth, heavily influences her process. Her work focuses on identity in relation to the intricacies of personal relationships as well as the impact of societal tropes on the formation of specific roles in relationships, gender, age and sex. She is interested in how her photographic tools become collaborators in her image-making process just as much as her subjects; playing with the traditional roles of author/photographer and subject. Her work has been featured/exhibited in the British Journal of Photography, Aperture, Elephant Magazine, Aint-Bad, It's Nice That, Paper Journal Magazine, Dazed, i_D, and the International Center of Photography.
