About

Ashira Siegel grew up Hasidic in Los Angeles, CA. She learned how to swim before she learned how to walk and started riding bicycles not long after that. Ashira lived in Israel for three years before moving to Brooklyn, NY where she became enmeshed in urban bicycle culture. During this time she worked as a bicycle messenger, made a documentary short about women bicycle messengers in NYC called “Even the Girls” (2004), and ran a bicycle food delivery business in Brooklyn. Now back in Los Angeles, Ashira works in a variety of media including photography, glass, ceramics, and various methods of sculpture, printing and sewing. She remains loyal to documenting as a way of life and regrets ever leaving the house without a camera.

Ashira is a member of Smockshop, Swimming Cities (of Switchback Sea), and a secret printing studio in downtown LA loosely called “The Scum Dungeon”.