American fine-art photographer, Catherine Opie, lives and works in Los Angeles. Opie is a tenured professor of photography at the University of California, Los Angeles and has received numerous awards capturing often overlooked aspects of contemporary American life and culture. As one of the most important photographers of her generation, her photographic subjects have included early seminal portraits of the LGBTQ community, the architecture of Los Angeles' freeway system, mansions in Beverly Hills, Midwestern icehouses, high school football players, California surfers, and abstract landscapes of National Parks, among others.