Caity Fares is a visual artist and educator living in San Diego, California. She uses digital and analog cameras to create traditional portraits and builds handmade cameras out of discarded materials to make experimental landscapes. Caity has exhibited work in the states and abroad, including at SOMArts, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, the Szkéné Theatre in Budapest, and the San Diego Art Institute: Museum of the Living Artist. Her photos have been published in Blur Magazine, Coast Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and F-Stop Magazine. She was recently awarded a residency and grant from the Fljótstunga Travel Farm in Iceland where she created landscape photographs that explore the contemporary state of a thousand-year-old lava field. Caity received her BA in Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz and her MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. She currently works as adjunct faculty at the Art Institute of California, San Diego and San Diego City College.