Myrtie Cope is an Atlanta photographer with a focus on architecture and nature. Ms. Cope
completed the Summer Intensive and Advanced Intensive certificate programs at Rocky
Mountain School of Photography. She is pleased to have both architectural and nature photos in
several private and public collections around Atlanta including the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta
Airport, Emory University Hospital, Broadstone Yards, and the Huntley on Park Avenue. Ms.
Cope was honored to receive the Denis Diderot Scholarship to Chateau Orquevaux Artist
Residency in Orquevaux, France, in October 2021 and was accepted to the Atelier AIR artist
residency in Dangeau, France for Fall 2023.
Ms. Cope's work has been included in numerous group exhibitions both nationally and
internationally. Her ongoing project photographing historic theaters in the Southeast - ''Second
Act'' -was exhibited at Spalding Nix Fine Art in September-November 2021. Ms. Cope was the
Nonprofessional winner of the Nature Category in the 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for
Women Photographers, and she recently won Honorable Mentions in both the Nonprofessional -
Nature Category and the Architecture Category in the 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for
Women Photographers which will be exhibited in Barcelona, Spain.
Ms. Cope recently began combining her photography with her sewing skills by embroidering her
photographs and creating quilts with cyanotypes on fabric. She is still exploring these techniques
and discovering new ways of looking at photography.
