Wendy Young is a photographer and educator currently residing in Cerrillos, NM. Raised in the American South, she began photographing at the age of nineteen. She has been photographing the American South since 2000 and is currently examining Southern white male culture in her project entitled, "Free, White, and Twenty-One", and the impact of Confederate Monuments on Southern communities, in her work entitled, "A Long and Slow Surrender". Her images have been shown at AIPAD, SlowExposures, photo-eye Gallery, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and The Ross Museum of Art, Ohio Weslyan University.