Catherine Opie (born 1961) is a United State artist specializing in issues within documentary photography. Throughout her work she has investigated aspects of community, making portraits of many groups including the LGBT community; surfers; and most recently high school football players. She's also interested in how identities are shaped by our surrounding architecture. She is currently a professor of Photography at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Her works are displayed in both museums and galleries internationally]. She has numerous catalogs from museum exhibitions which include, Freeways published by MOCA, Los Angeles, Skyways and Ice Houses,published by The Walker Art Center, 1999/ In and Around Home published by the Aldrich Museum, and Chicago by the MCA in Chicago.