B. Proud. It's not a slogan. It's the name that's on her birth certificate, and Barbara Proud says that it's a name she must live up to.

 As both a commercial and fine art photographer, B. Proud has exhibited her work in solo and group shows around the globe. In addition to working with clients such as the Human Rights Campaign, Brooks Running Shoes, the LPGA, and more, she was an Adjunct Professor of Photography at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, for 25 years, a faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) for 1 year, and continues to teach workshops.

 Over the past several years, her personal work has predominantly engaged with the myriad injustices faced by the LGBTQ+ community, with a current focus on the transgender experience. B. Proud’s recent work is a series of socially conscious documentary projects focused on the LGBTQ+ community. "First Comes Love" is a traveling exhibition of portraits, stories, and videos of couples in long-term relationships. The project’s hardbound book received two publishing gold medals. “Transcending Love,” focuses on transgender and gender nonconforming couples across the country in an attempt to further acceptance of a community deserving of understanding and fundamental human rights.

 Proud has received grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, the B.W. Bastian Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, the University of the Arts, the Delaware State Arts Council, and the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work is included in the Weeks Gallery, Jamestown, NY, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Delaware Art Museum, Eastman Kodak, Haverford College, the Philadelphia Art Museum, the Harn Museum of Art (FL),  and prominent private collections.

Please visit her documentary projects at www.firstcomeslove.org and www.transcendinglove.org