Christine Lee Smith is an award-winning portrait photographer in Southern California. Smith received her MFA in 2020 from Azusa Pacific University. Smith’s research interests lie in photography’s relationship to embodiment and identity, and she has presented original papers on photography’s relationship to gender, as well as photography’s relationship to death, at CIVA biennials in 2019 and 2021. Smith received an honorable mention in the 17th Julia Margaret Cameron award and was a finalist in the Taylor Wessing National Portrait Gallery award in 2019. Her work has appeared in the Duncan Miller Gallery, Gallery 825, and the Museum of Latin American Art.