Justin A. Carney uses autobiographical photography to question how death and grief affect familial connections—the bonds that keep a family together and cause them to separate, and how those bonds shape an individual. He is originally from Baltimore, Maryland, and is currently pursuing his MFA in Photography at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has won the Best in Show Award for the 2020 Emerging Vision, Colorado Photographic Arts Center Biennial Student Show. His work has been exhibited at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China; the International Exchange Exhibition at Keimyung University in South Korea; and the 2017 Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.