ponderosa65
ponderosa65
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I was born in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1965, on Boston’s South Shore. I grew up in nearby Hanover. I became enamored with photography in the 1970s when my aunt Marie gave me a Kodak Instatmatic that shot 110 film. In high school, my parents bought me my first SLR, a Pentax K-1000. I took photography classes at Boston College and was a Sub Turri (yearbook) photographer. At that time I shot with a Canon T-90. In 1991, I moved to Oakland, California, once home to Imogen Cunningham and one of the cities where Dorothea Lange, commissioned by the US government’s War Relocation Authority, photographed Japanese immigrants as they were displaced to camps across California, Arizona and Utah during WW2. Many of Lange’s photographs are archived at the Oakland Museum of California. In the mid-1990s, I enrolled in photography classes at City College of San Francisco using a Canon EOS Elan II. My only bona fide professional work began in 1993 when Henri Nouwen (1932-1996), a Dutch priest and best selling author, asked me to make portraits of him for use in his books. When Henri died in 1996, there was a sudden demand for my portraits as publishing houses world-wide rushed to reissue updated versions of his many books. Additionally, several authors penned biographies of Henri and sought my portraits. In 2009, I donated my color transparencies and black & white negatives to the Henri J.M. Nouwen Archives and Research Collection, located at the University of St. Michaels, Toronto, Canada. I currently shoot with a Canon EOS 70D digital SLR and live in Pinole, California with my husband, Alvaro Carrasco.
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