About the Artist

After studying social documentary photography at Harvard University, I spent ten years working as a photojournalist and communications officer for various development organizations in the Third World. In pursuing these assignments, I tried to portray the dignity and courage of the people I encountered. This led to a recent project exploring the lives of Turkish/Kurdish women I got to know in the 1970’s and revisited 30 years later. These images along with translated interviews were featured in a one-woman show at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library in 2003.

An interim career in not-for-profit management, and the raising of two children, provided productive and joyful distractions from photography for over a decade. However, I returned to photographic pursuits, adding the training required to work in the digital darkroom. A show at Cape Cod Community College highlighted my photographs of women from Cuba and Zimbabwe in 2007. I currently serve as archivist for Partners In Health of “Mountains Beyond Mountains” fame. I curated their traveling 20th anniversary photo exhibit and a recent post-earthquake show about Haiti. In addition, I am the archivist and a photographer for the not-for-profit, WIEGO, an organization supporting poor working women in developing countries.