Tia Doering earned her BFA in Photography The Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine in May 2020. She works primarily in black and white, using a 4x5 view camera to capture constructed still lifes and landscapes. She is influenced by contemporary vanitas photography and artists such as Tereza Zelenkova and Ralph Eugene Meatyard. As a photographer, she uses the relationship between repulsion and attraction to create a sense of the uncanny in her work.