Biography

Megan Baker began taking pictures at the age of three, when she picked up the family Polaroid and began documenting the eventful lives of her toys. She wasn’t born into a family of photographers, where she got the knack for photography remains a mystery. 

At age nine, Megan won both county and state photography competitions in 4-H, including ‘Best of the Best’ Illinois State Awards. She began getting paying jobs at only twelve years old.

After being kicked out of the conservative Christian school she had been going to for 7 years, her parents began to get concerned after she generally became a recluse and stopped witnessing the light of day. When forced to venture into the outside world, she came across an abandoned house. She was very intrigued by it, and the obsession began. Road trips were taken to small towns that had experienced an economic downfall in 2006, and she photographed the buildings left behind. This later became her “Decampment” series, which was published in the international fine art photography magazine, Eyemazing. Later, this collection was published in Australian culture magazine, Kurv, alongside Heath Ledger and Paris Hilton. Her work has been blogged by Janet Jackson and on some of the top art and design blogs.

In 2008, she began working on a new series, entitled “Little Boxes” The work is a continuation of ‘Decampment’ but with stronger emphasis on the structures themselves, as opposed to the people who left them.

In 2009, at age 17, she moved to Chicago. She currently spends her time photographing interesting buildings across the United States,  touring with musicians, and trying to figure out city living.