Photography has given me an outlet to share my creativity and vision. I enjoy being creative, not just with a camera, but in all aspects of life.  Bringing my ideas to life through photography is what motivates me to continue to pick up the camera. I produce one-of-a-kind images.  Creating the objects that I photograph has become a major part of my process.  My hope is to ignite the imagination of each viewer to see something unique and in this way to become part of the creative process.  The excitement of my work is that it is open to interpretation. 

Like many people who study photography one starts with the basics, black and white, composition, developing/darkroom skills etc. I loved black and white photography. I could make the mundane look skillfully artistic. My first color photography class began with the fear that every image I took would look like an ordinary snapshot. This is when I began to experiment with making things that I could then photograph. When I began my thesis work I went back to this idea and began a process I still use today, creating something unique each time.

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In 1998 I began attending Nassau Community College, where I explored what I enjoyed by taking many courses in many different areas and finally found my niche in a photography class. I graduated from Nassau with an associate degree in photography and I continued my education in the arts, completing my BFA in Photography at C.W. Post in 2004. After graduation, with high hopes of starting my career as an artist, I looked for places to show my work.  I sold my first piece of art out of a tent on the grounds of the Nassau County Museum at their Annual Outdoor Art Exhibit, a Juried Group Exhibit. While displaying my work at this event I met the owner of a small gallery in Cold Spring Harbor, NY, The Cold Spring Harbor Art Center. I was given my first exhibit, Real and Imagined a Solo Exhibit, Kristen Campagna. I had one more solo exhibit with this gallery and was represented by the Cold Spring Harbor Art Center until they closed in 2006. While I have continued to create new pieces over the years, I have not submitted my work to a gallery since 2006. Recently I have felt inspired to create a new body of work and my excitement about these new pieces has motivated me to want to share them.