Rebekah Cross is an urban landscape photographer, writer, and bookmaker who documents the rapidly changing cityscape in the Metro Phoenix and Tucson communities. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a Master of Arts degree in literature and is a 2026 Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist Opportunity Grant recipient. She has exhibited at Scottsdale Living and JPEG Gallery in Camden, NJ. Rebekah lives in Phoenix and is working to create a photographic archive of older hotels, malls, and other spaces that were once thriving and are now either neglected or in the process of being transformed.
Education
AAS in Photography, Glendale Community College, in progress
MA in Literature, Wright State University, 2003
Juried Exhibitions
Arizona Professional Photographers of America Gallery Showcase, WHAM! Art Gallery, Surprise, AZ 2025
JPEG Gallery, Camden, NJ, 2025
Pancakes and Booze Art Show, Phoenix, AZ 2025
Arizona State Fair, Phoenix, AZ, 2023, 2024
Arizona Professional Photographers of America Winter Showcase, Scottsdale Living, Scottsdale, AZ, 2023
Glendale Community College Photography Exhibition, Glendale, AZ, 2023, 2025
Glendale Community College Student Art Show, Glendale, AZ, 2023–2025
Grants and Awards
Arizona Commission on the Arts – Artist Opportunity Grant, 2025–2026
Arizona State Fair – Third Place, 2024
John Steiner Photography Scholarship, 2023
Photography Shoot Out Team Competition – First Place, 2022
Maricopa County Fair – Award Recipient, 2022–2025
Professional Development
Photographing the Urban Landscape at Santa Fe Workshop
Bookmaking Workshops at Glendale Community College
Desert Nights Rising Stars Writing Conference at Arizona State University
Publications
Ever Changing, 2025
Discarded, 2023
Associations
Arizona Professional Photographers of America (AZPPA)
Arizona Photography Alliance (AZPA)