Debbie Bentley

 Debbie Bentley is a photographer/artist from Denver, Colorado. Her work focuses primarily on documenting places and environments, exploring their connection to the internal experiences of people, and the importance of recording this interconnectedness.

Her work documenting the Salton Sea in Imperial County, California, was the subject of a 2020 Daylight Books monograph Salton Sea: of Dust and Water with forward by Mark Murrmann, photo editor at Mother Jones. The project, and subsequent book, captured the Salton Sea and dust remediation projects in 2018: the first-year state and federally mandated water transfers ended to the Sea. Images from this body of work were featured in Bloomberg BusinessWeek. 

She is currently working on a number of projects, most notably Dammed; Birth to Death of the Colorado River. Images and text from the project are included in the book of the same name, published by Daylight Books and released in January of 2024.

Her film series, Bentlandia, was showcased in an Analog Forever online feature article in late December of 2023, and she was named one of the top 40 photographers of 2023 by the magazine.

Ms. Bentley currently serves as Emeritus Board Member of PhotoAlliance in San Francisco, CA.