From 1997 to the present, San Francisco-based photographer Beth Yarnelle Edwards has photographed people in their homes. After beginning in the Silicon Valley suburbs, she has worked by invitation in five European countries. Her photographs have been exhibited and published extensively in the U.S. and Europe, and she has been the subject of solo museum exhibitions at Château d’Eau in Toulouse, France; the Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi, Belgium; The Oakland Museum of California; and the Reykjavik Museum of Photography in Iceland. The winner of CENTER's 1999 Photography Project Competition, her work can be found in the collections of SFMOMA, LACMA, the MFA Houston, and many other European and American institutions. Edwards' monograph, Suburban Dreams, was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2011.

Edwards has recently rephotographed a number of her original Suburban Dreams subjects. In some cases, twenty years have passed since the first photograph was made.

In her new series Curb Appeal, Edwards' photographs take a different turn. These are outdoor images of homes in residential neighborhoods made on Edwards' daily walk. There are no people to be seen, and the locations are anonymous. The viewer shares the artist's delight in the surprise, beauty, originality, humor, and occasionally, the shock of what she finds.