Virginia Scruggs

Virginia Scruggs is an American photographer living and working in Birmingham, Alabama and Nova Scotia. Scruggs works in art, documentary, landscape, and portraiture photography. Having experimented with different photography technologies, Scruggs primarily works in large scale digital and gelatin silver printing.

In the 1990s, Scruggs worked on a series of horse photographs that used parts of the animals in a way that mimicked landscapes such as a horizon with the tufts of their manes appearing as trees, sage brush and grasses. In a related series, Scruggs paid homage to one of her beloved horses who had died by photographing the natural process of decay of the corpse.

Scruggs is a founding member of Stare Studio along with Melissa Springer and Karen Graffeo.
Scruggs is listed in "Famous People" (of Birmingham, Ala.), which includes people in politics, sports and the arts.

From 1992 and until 2000, Scruggs was represented by Agnes. Scruggs is an active member of the Photography Guild of the Birmingham Museum of Art, which supports the museum's photography collection through programming and funding for acquisitions.

Scruggs is a long-term supporter of the arts and has accumulated an art collection through relationships to many artists including Ruth Bernhard, Patricia Gaines, Jack Spencer, Melissa Springer among others.

Scruggs' work was part of "Contour: The Definitive Line" curated by Jon Coffelt. One of 17 artists invited to define the concept of contour, the exhibit was the culmination of this subjective approach. This exhibition also included Clayton Colvin, Lee Isaacs, and Sean Slemon.

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