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It could have been anything, but my 1974 Minolta XE-1 was most accessible to me in 1998. My stepfather lent me his 35mm camera at a time in my life when I most needed something creative to do. Several digital and film camera's later, I now shoot with a Nikon D300.
I took my first photography class while living in the Berkshires, MA in the fall of 1998. This was my first look at f-stops, shutter speeds and Polaroid transfers. It was my first formal endeavor to see my environment through the lens of a camera. I recall taking pictures of the local deer poop, pumpkins and trees, lots of trees.
Once I moved to Boston I continued my photographic education by taking a darkroom class at the New England School of Photography. The following year, I began taking classes at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. There I was pushed to examine such questions as "What is beauty?" and "How does one turn the ordinary into the extraordinary?" Both questions were just the beginning of many many more.
I have since moved on to study photography at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Maine Photographic Workshops. Currently, I am enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design where I plan to earn a certificate in digital photography.
I am employed as a secondary math teacher in the Boston Public School system and the Lexington Public School system. I hold a Master's degree in Education and am certified to teach Secondary Math, Middle School Math and Special Education. I am also the facilitator for my high school's Photography club.
SOLO AND GROUP SHOWS:
"Water" - A National Juried Photography Exhibition - The Vermont Photography Workplace - Middlebury, VT Summer 2009
"Photographs of Stone: and the math within" (21 image solo exhibit) - Hynes Convention Center - Rotunda Gallery - Boston, MA Jan-May 2009
Somerville Open Studios - Somerville, MA Spring 2008, 2009
MA Artist's Charity Art Show - Westborough, MA Spring 2008
Seek Alternate Routes (Juror: Jed Speare) - 119 Gallery - Lowell, MA Winter 2007
O'neill Library - Cambridge, MA Fall 2007, 2008
Landscape - Natures Beauty and Drama - Cranston Main Branch Library, Cranston, RI Fall 2007
Decent Exposure (Jurors: Jennifer Linston Munson and Tom Rassieur) - School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Spring 2007
EDUCATION:
Undergraduate - Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois - Industrial Engineering
Graduate - University of Massachusetts - Boston, Secondary Math Education.
Current photographic studies - Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
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