conveying the depth of soul and expression of your unique personality
Shadow Dance PHOTOGRAPHY
The Photographer
I am a professional photographer specializing in fine-art portraiture and owner of Shadow Dance Photography.
Shadow Dance Photography started in 2005, in partnership with the late fine-art photographer, Leslie Elias. We self-published a book called In the Company of Dogs in 2010. After her death. A book of Leslie Elias’ landscape photography, Reverence
for Place, was published in 2013.
While raising three children, and working as a special education speech therapist for 38 years, I explored 35 mm and medium format photography, setting up a film darkroom wherever I lived. Having a studio of my own, and a digital darkroom, is a dream come true.
I am a founding Board of Director for Sierra Roots, a Nevada City, California non-profit organization focused on building community with homeless people. The project called
Faces of Change, portraits of homeless folks whom I met along the way, led to gallery shows in my home town of Nevada City/Grass Valley, and in Sacramento, California.
In 2017, I was a primary collaborator with A-Place-To-Call-Home, an ongoing project funded, in part, by grants from California Humanities and California Arts Council. My photographs are part of several multi-media film shorts and videos, and I was one of the featured artists in the gallery show at The Center For the Arts, Granucci Gallery, in Grass Valley, California entitled, A Place To Call Home: Stories Inspiring Transformation. My photographs were also the featured visual for the 2018 A-Place-To-Call-Home Compassionate Action Wall Calendar which was produced as part of this arts-related, grant-funded project.
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In 2018, I was one of the fifteen artists chosen to participate in the Belonging, I Am Here, grant-funded project created by Ruth Chase, Artist in Residence, Nevada County Arts Council.
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I am especially drawn to photographing artists, musicians, poets, playwrights, and actors in their most comfortable setting. Edgy and creative work is a particular favorite.
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CLIENT LIST:
Jeanne Duerst - JD Online Web Design
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Susan M. Davis - The CoCreation Community
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Jan Michelle Sawyer - Sculptor
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Jenny Hale - Jenny Hale Designs
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Laurie Bethell- SoulStreaming
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Doug Bratt - Grateful Bears
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Gallery Exhibitions:
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2016 - Eye to Eye, Group Show, Granucci Gallery, Center For the Arts, Grass Valley, CA
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2017 - A Place To Call Home - Stories Inspiring Transformation, Group Show, Granucci Gallery, Center for the Arts, Grass Valley, CA
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2018 - Magnum Opus XXIX, Sacramento Fine Arts Gallery, Peoples Choice Award
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2019 - Belonging, I Am Here, Group Art Exibition, Briarpatch Co-Op Gallery, Nevada City, CA
Publications:
2003 Insight Health & Wellness Directory - Cover Art for Premier Edition.
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2010 In the Company of Dogs - Self Published Book
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2018 A-Place-To-Call-Home Daily Compassionate Action Wall Calendar