About Me

Hi, my name is Autumn, but you can call me A.C.

      Autumn Cierra was born in Denver, Colorado. She developed a photographic interest when she received a simple digital orange camera that she carried around everywhere at eleven years old. Whenever Autumn would travel, she’d take pictures of artifacts, buildings, animals, people and so on. She grew a fascination with the world because there were so many things inside of it that she didn’t understand. After enduring sequential trauma, Autumn shied away from the world, and lost her artistic voice and expression for years. It was at seventeen years old when she bought her first digital camera and fell in love with the medium of photography. Her means of opening back up began with poetry and fictional stories but transformed into photography as her curiosity heightened again.

         Autumn, who had little knowledge of how to compose photographs artistically and professionally, spent four years studying the historical aspects and techniques of multiple photographic mediums and formats. She learned how to represent herself as an artist both through analog and digital processes and conveyed a part of herself through a multitude of fictional and documentary series. Her artistic practice stems from other influential artists, but is highly focused on representing the imagination, the self, and fear. 

         In her most recent series, she documents her mental health and puts herself in a vulnerable and emotional state directly in front of a camera. Her work challenges the truth in photography, while also making a commentary on digital manipulation. By expressing the severity of her anxiety, she is able to abstract the realism of herself, her work, and mental health awareness. When this project comes to an end, Autumn strives to continue her exploration of the world, of community, and to build not only a better relationship with the universe, but also with herself.