Gretchen LeMaistre was born in Jacksonville, Florida, and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through her research and photo-based practices, she explores the complicated and sometimes troubling legacies of colonial American settlement. LeMaistre’s most recent work, Kingsley, Arrangements in Gray in Black, and Brackish, investigates the history and landscapes of Northeast Florida’s coastal estuaries, as well as LeMaistre’s own ancestral ties to the American South.