Maya and Emily, Milledgeville, GA 2015

Emily J. Gómez is originally from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She earned a BA in Fine Arts with an emphasis in Photography from Loyola University Chicago in 1998 and went on to work as the staff photographer for a Metropolitan Detroit newspaper, The Spinal Column Newsweekly, for five years. In 2006, she earned an MFA with Distinction in Photography from the University of Georgia. From 2006 to 2022, she was a professor of art at Georgia College, where she taught darkroom, digital, and alternative process photography. She currently resides in Lewiston, Michigan, and is co-owner of East Twin Studios along with her husband Ernesto. Her artistic interests lie in finding awe-inspiring landscapes, often while contemplating their complicated layers of human history.

Among her accomplishments are a National Endowment for the Arts Grant for a Distinguished Fellowship at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, and published photographs in the books Platinum and Palladium Photographs: Technical History, Connoisseurship, and Preservation, as well as Platinotype: Making Photographs in Platinum and Palladium with the Contemporary Printing-Out Process by Pradip Malde with Mike Ware. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Zuckerman Museum of Art in Kennesaw, GA, The Georgia Technology Authority in Augusta, GA, and The State Botanical Gardens of Georgia, Athens, GA, among others.