Lydia McCarthy (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based artist and social worker. Her photographs and videos have been exhibited at 106 Green, Essex Flowers, Sardine and the Scandinavia House in New York, Hidrante in San Juan, Sports Hall Window in Helsinki and A-DASH in Athens. She has been reviewed and published in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Art F City, The Wall Street Journal, Dossier and the Huffington Post. Lydia was awarded a yearlong American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship for work in northern Sweden and was an Associate Professor of Photography at Alfred University for nine years.