Elizabeth Perdue has worked in the field of photography on and off for three decades, including commercial work in New York and extensive portrait work in Atlanta. She was introduced to non-silver processes by a beloved teacher but is largely self- taught. Perdue currently lives and works in a converted chicken coop on her family farm in Somerset, Virginia.

Her work is based on the natural world and largely on things she finds while walking in the woods. She photographs her subjects with 8x10 or 4x5 sheets of film, processes the film and exposes them using a hand made light box or the sun as the light source. At a time when photography is readily available to anyone with an iPhone she has chosen to work in a late 19th-century method that requires hands-on engagement at each step of the process.