About Me
I am a native New Englander and I spent much of my youth in Connecticut or Vermont. I earned my BA from Middlebury College in Vermont, where I majored in Russian and history. After college I received a Fulbright fellowship to study Russo-Japanese relations in Vladivostok. Other than a semester in high school, my first forays into photography were in Vladivostok. After I finished there, I moved to Santa Barbara to enter a PhD program to study history. I enjoyed UCSB, but I decided to stop after my MA to pursue photography. While I am mostly self-taught, I have taken classes at the International Center of Photography in New York as well as the Maine Photographic Workshops. My darkroom training began at Specialty Photographic in Santa Barbara with Chipper Cavendish. Subsequently I studied fine art printing with ICP's black and white master printer, Brian Young. In 2005 I had a few days in Iceland on a stopover. It was love at first sight. After some stops and starts, I manged to move full time to Iceland in the fall of 2008. I currently live in Reykjavík. I work as an exhibition printer and run a printing and processing service called Custom Photo Lab.
Photo by Christine Lange