Tina Barney Social Studies focuses on one of America's most renowned art photographers working today, has recorded her world for 25 years – American East Coast Old Money Society.

Directed by Jaci Judelson (Undressed), Tina Barney: Social Studies follows the renowned photographer as inspiration at home wanes and she sets out to photograph the upper class milieu of Europe. As Barney glides in and out of grand apartments, country chateaux, hunts and parties populated by the eccentric wealthy, she confronts issues of wealth and privilege with shocking clarity. Challenging and honest, the film deals with the scrutiny and controversy that constantly surrounds Barney's work and her habitual subject matter of the rich.

An often amusing, intimate portrait of a woman born into a life of privilege who came to turn her world into art, Tina Barney: Social Studies sets its gaze on a milieu that can appear to be as pleasurable as it is unsettling.