Laurie Freitag,  Diane Silverman,  Barbara Pickles,  Bev Pettit  Edward L. Rubin, 
Gloria Golden,  Ivy Bigbee   Joan E. Bowers  Kathleen T. Carr,  Lee Anne White,  Marguerite Garth,  Merrie Asimow Rebecca Joyce,  Rosa Isabel Vázquez,  Wendi Schneider

LOST, 2013

Bev Pettit
Skull Valley, Arizona, USA

My life as an artist began at an early age. Throughout the educational and work stages of my life I incorporated art classes, teaching and a career as an artist in whichever ways were possible at the time. Because I travelled and worked in many countries it became difficult to express my creativity through such usual artistic mediums as paints and brushes. It was in the early 1990s, when I moved to Asia, that I picked up my first camera as I set out to travel the back roads of China, Vietnam, Thailand, India and Malaysia. I never looked back. At that time I knew that the camera was the tool that I wanted to use to explore and develop a new creative process that was exciting and alive with new possibilities for growth and expansion as a photographic artist.
Website: bevpettit.com       WIPI PhotoProfile

Vizcaya, 1996

Ivy Bigbee
Centreville, Virginia, USA

Whether “capturing fireflies in a bottle”—how Ivy Bigbee describes photographing global entity, Cirque du Soleil for “Portraits from the Cirque du Soleil” (1999-2000)—or in revealing how a US postage stamp she created memorializes the husband she lost in Vietnam, Bigbee ‘s fine art/ editorial photography is internationally published and nationally exhibited. Highlights of the Miami, FL native’s career include the critically-acclaimed commission, “Faith’s Foundations: Images of Religious Diversity”: an award-winning, b/w architectural series installed in City Hall, Jacksonville, FL. Harnessing her Summa cum laude BA degree with analog darkroom concentration, Bigbee combines poetry with photography in Optical Allusions: an Art Photographer’s Poems. ivybigbee.com      WIPI PhotoProfile

Bridge to Nowhere, 2009

Joan E. Bowers
Seattle, Washington, USA

I grew up in Pennsylvania in an area where the land was subjected to degradation through the pursuit of coal. For the past decade, I have been searching for and photographing landscapes, waterscapes and various aspects of Northwest geography in an effort to discover scenes that I find soothing and supportive of a momentary and meditative respite from daily life. It is my hope that viewers of my work find this same opportunity for respite, however brief.  irongatephotography.net

Bridge, Hilo, 2011

Kathleen T. Carr
Honaunau, Hawaii
WIPI CHARTER Member

Kathleen T. Carr is a professional and fine art photographer, teacher, author, and a former Polaroid Creative Uses Consultant. She received a B.F.A. (cum laude) in Photography from Ohio University, and then studied extensively with Minor White and worked for Aperture. Her work has been exhibited internationally and has appeared in numerous books and periodicals, including her books, Polaroid Transfers, Polaroid Manipulations (Amphoto Books), and To Honor the Earth (HarperSanFrancisco). She was a staff photographer at the Findhorn Foundation, Scotland, and Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA during the ‘70s and ‘80s, and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship recipient in 1991. She resides in the Captain Cook area of Hawaii. kathleencarr.com

Apprehension, 2007
The Mutable Sea series

Lee Anne White
Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Best known for her landscapes, Lee Anne White recently turned her eye to the sea—capturing viewers’ imaginations with her painterly and contemplative style. She also explores both natural and architectural subjects in black and white. Lee Anne has photographed more than 70 magazine features and is a principal contributor to nearly 20 books, including 7 of her own titles. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions and she has taught at the Maine Media Workshops. She has a master’s degree in creative studies and an undergraduate degree in journalism and commercial art. leeannewhite.com      WIPI PhotoProfile

The Pond #4, 2011

Marguerite Garth
Los Gatos, California, USA

Marguerite Garth is a photographic artist and environmentalist living in Northern California. Her artworks probe the nature of place and the complex ecological and societal issues present and observable in the landscape of the American West. Her work has been honored with twenty-two international photography awards since 2011, including ‘Photographer of the Year 2011’ by the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, the prestigious Salon Prize in London, and several 1st place honors from The International Photography Awards Competition (Lucie Awards). Garth describes her work as ‘visual poetry’. margueritegarth.com       WIPI PhotoProfile

Coin Operated, Static series, 2013

Rebecca Joyce
Los Angeles, California, USA

I'm a mostly self-taught fine art photographer. I work primarily in black and white, both digitally and on film. Although I studied psychology and sociology, I worked through college at photo developing and printing labs. For me, the photographic process isn't complete until it is on paper. My work is a combination of street photography, urban landscape, and visual storytelling. My current project, Static, has been well- received and the first in a series of books has been published and is available at the Burgundy Room Gallery in Hollywood.

Miss M.,  2013

Wendi Schneider
Denver, Colorado, USA

Wendi Schneider’s sensual photographs are often recognized for their focus on detail, grace of composition and delicate balance between the real and the imagined. She began photographing in 1983. Her images are inspired by a background in painting and art history and the lush beauty of her southern heritage. A major contributor to the original Victoria magazine, she is also known for her hand-painted flower images, nearly 100 book cover photographs, and for designing, photographing and producing the recreation of the 1901 Picayune’s Creole Cook Book. She is passionately engaged in wildlife, nature and figurative photography and pigment printing with gold and silver leaf and metallic substrates, incorporating fundraising for education and conservancy organizations. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally and are included in collections around the world. They can be viewed by appointment in Denver and upon request at A Gallery for Fine Photography in New Orleans. wendischneider.com    WIPI PhotoProfile