Beth Dow grew up in Minneapolis where her earliest memories of photography involved her photographer father's experimental color work. After college, she moved to London where she developed her eye for unusual landscapes and the various ways we interact with our environment. During her years in London, she began looking at our experiences in the city, and her work has gradually evolved toward the marginal areas of rural fields. Dow's interest in fine printmaking and the art/craft dynamic of photography is evident in her work. Her current process spans the three centuries of photographic practice, beginning with roll-film and a hand-held medium-format camera, and followed by the use of 21st century digital technology to make the contact negatives necessary for her final Victorian platinum-palladium printing.

She recently won Grand Prize in Blurb's Photography.Book.Now competition, and she has received fellowships from the McKnight Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Dow's photographs have been exhibited internationally in America, Britain, Japan, and China. She is represented by Jen Bekman Gallery, and lives in Minneapolis with her photographer husband Keith Taylor and their two kids.