Rebecca Michaels is a Philadelphia-based artist whose work investigates photography as an expanded form of material evidence. Working with botanical chemistry, language, and camera-less image making, she creates installations that examine how traces become records and how records become belief. Her recent work explores the intersection of natural processes, photography, and contemporary questions surrounding artificial intelligence, archives, and systems of knowledge.

After a forty-four-year career teaching photography, including over twenty years at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture, she now works full-time in her Glenside, Pennsylvania studio.