Lauren Greenfield

Acclaimed photographer Lauren Greenfield (www.laurengreenfield.com) is considered a preeminent chronicler of youth culture as a result of her groundbreaking projects Girl Culture and Fast Forward.
Now she turns her lens on eating disorders, experienced by a shocking one out of seven American women. THIN is Greenfield's first feature length documentary film and aired on HBO November 14, 2006. THIN has been seen by millions of Americans and is now considered one of HBO's most highly rated documentary feature films. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and has won Best Feature Documentary at the Independent Film Festival of Boston, the Newport International Film Festival, the Jackson Hole Film Festival and recently been awarded the Times BFI London Film Festival Grierson Award.
In this unflinching and incisive study, Greenfield embarks on an emotional journey through the Renfrew Center in Coconut Creek, Florida, a residential facility dedicated to the treatment of eating disorders.

American Photo named Greenfield one of the 25 most influential photographers working today. She graduated from Harvard in 1987 and started her career as an intern for National Geographic. Since then, her photographs have won numerous awards and been regularly published in magazines including the New York Times Magazine, TIME, The New Yorker, Harper's, ELLE, Harper's Bazaar, Stern, American Photo, French Photo, and the London Sunday Times Magazine. She is a member of the VII Photo Agency (www.viiphoto.com), an international photographic cooperative.

Her work is in several major collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography, the Center for Creative Photography, the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), the Harvard University Archive, the Clinton Library, and the French Ministry of Culture.

She lives in Venice, California with her husband, Frank Evers, and their two sons.