PHOTOJOURNALISM EXPERIENCE / QUALIFICATIONS

Currently: Photojournalist and Documentary Photographer. Published by The Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, AOL, E!, Tracks Magazine, Gala Germany, KPA Canada, Norddt Germany, World Vision, Pasadena Weekly, Novella Publishing Co.

2003-Current Contract Photographer for Zuma Press, international photo news agency

1999-2001 Daily Journal and Our Times - Los Angeles Times

1987-1999 Photographer for The New York Times, USA TODAY, Time Magazine, Newsweek Magazine, and People Magazine. Based in Charlotte, NC

1986-1999 Contract Photographer for Sipa Press

1980-1999 Stringer photographer for the Charlotte Observer

1984-1986 Chief Photographer for The Leader , Charlotte, NC

JOURNALISM

1999-2003 Editorial column with photographic essays for the Lancaster News

1980-1999 Freelance Feature Writer - Charlotte Observer

1989-1999 Feature writer for Break Magazine / Charlotte Observer

MEMBERSHIPS

International Documentary Association

Member of the National Press Photographers Association

Member of Women in Photography International

Vice President, Visual Artists Guild Board of Directors

EDUCATION

2006 - Platypus Workshop Digital Journalist, Brooks Institute of Photography

1998-1999 University of North Carolina Charlotte BFA Art with concentration in Photography – minor in Art History

1998- Studio Art Center International, Florence Italy Documentary Photography and Renaissance Art History

1977-1980 Landstuhl, Germany Photography Apprenticeship under photographer Harold Jacobs