Background
Shyla L. Irving was born in 1943 in New Haven Connecticut, United States.
Shyla L. Irving was born in 1943 in New Haven Connecticut, United States.
She attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart in New Haven, and the University of Iowa in Iowa City, where she completed a BFA in 1975.
Working as a freelance photographer, she has had her work published in Rolling Stone, Time and The New York Times Magazine. From 1975 to 1979 she was director of photography at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center in Vermont.
A member of the Photographic Resource Center in Boston.