Born in Moscow in 1975, Jenia Fridlyand immigrated to the United States in 1989. Coming to photography later in life, she received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Hartford’s International Low-Residency Program in 2016. Fridlyand’s photographs and books have been exhibited in the United States and abroad. Her artist’s book Entrance to Our Valley was shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture First Photobook Award in 2017, and the trade edition published by TIS Books is now in its third printing. Fridlyand is a co-founder of the non-profit educational collective Image Threads, and is the founding chair of the Long Term Photobook Program at the Penumbra Foundation in New York.