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As a freelance photographer for over twenty-five years, my work has appeared in Rolling Stone, USA Today, The Village Voice, New York Daily News, Newsday, Sierra Magazine, Native Americas, Native Peoples, and The Sunday Times (London) as well as on CD covers for various recording artists. I also worked at Associated Press for twenty years in various capacities - from photo stringer, to photo librarian, and lastly, as national photo editor.
I have published three books: Women of the Native Struggle: Portraits and Testimonies Native American Women, (Crown 1993); Cowgirls: Contemporary Portraits of the American West (Crown 1994, Thunder's Mouth Press 1998); and Diary of a Pedestrian: A New York Memoir (Third Eye Press 2004). My work is shown and collected nationally, and I have received two N.Y.S.C.A. Decentralization Program Individual Artist grants( 2002 and 2004).
Cowgirls, was critically acclaimed by The New York Times and The Washington Post, and was recently featured in Western Horseman magazine. This work is currently on a 4-year exhibit tour throughout the United States, sponsored by the Mid-America Arts Alliance and NEA Humanities on the Road.
I am returning to Wyoming in June to re-interview and photograph cowgirls, and to capture the changing landscape that threatens their way of life- the oil and gas rigs, and wind farms that have emerged as a result of our increasing energy needs.
I am also producing a traveling exhibit of my Native American work - which spans 25 years, to be shown in laundromat sites throughout the continental United States during 2011. That same year, I am publishing my book New York Water Towers on my Third Eye Press imprint.
