Tabitha Barnard is a photographer who grew up as the oldest of four sisters in rural Maine. She works primarily in analog color photography, exploring themes of femininity, religion, and ritual. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maine College of Art in the Spring of 2016 and her Master's degree in Fine Art Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in the Spring of 2021. She has had work displayed in Aperture Gallery, Redhook Labs, Blue Raven Gallery, and a solo exhibition at Speedwell Projects. She was the recipient of the Burn Magazine grant and the Gomma Grant in 2018. In 2024, she curated an exhibition for the Glickman Library at the University of Southern Maine. She has had work published in Vogue US, The New York Times, Buzzfeed, and Unseen Magazine. In 2024, her first monograph, Dead Trees Speak to Me, was published through Wychelm Press.
Tabitha currently lives and works in Portland, Maine, teaching at Maine College of Art & Design and the University of Southern Maine.