Beth Garrabrant is a photographer and documentary film producer. Her work explores adolescence and community through staged narrative and documentary photography and video. Garrabrant’s first book, Things Shouldn’t Be So Hard (Simon & Schuster), considers how depictions and perceptions of youth affect one’s own experience and memory of being young.

Garrabrant has photographed the cover art for Taylor Swift albums Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, and most recently, The Tortured Poets Department, among others.

Garrabrant has also photographed the making of several films and television shows including Problemista, Love Lies Bleeding, Cruella, and The Curse.  Garrabrant’s photographs have appeared in Vogue, Teen Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and the New York Times. She has worked with Disney, Showtime, Netflix, and Nike, and is an Executive Producer of the upcoming HBO documentary series The Yogurt Shop Murders, directed by Margaret Brown and co-produced by A24.

Garrabrant received bachelor’s degrees in both Studio Art and Film, Television and Theater from the University of Notre Dame in 2007. She then graduated from the general studies program at the International Center of Photography in New York City, where she began her now seventeen-year career in the industry. Garrabrant lives in Austin, TX with her husband and two children. .