Memphis is a respected fine art photographer, master printer and teacher whose images express the spirit, mystery and form of the natural world.

A master black and white digital printer, Memphis carefully crafts each of her prints personally using a process based on traditional darkroom techniques adapted to current technology and digital tools. Her limited edition images are held in private and public collections across the United States and show regularly in solo and group exhibitions. She is a warm-hearted and patient teacher, who mentors students around the world to help them grow in and through photography.

For two decades Memphis lived and worked in the mountains and high deserts of northern New Mexico as a garden and landscape designer. She lived primitively for almost a decade of that time and discovered what it is to live in concert with the rythm and flow of the natural world. A long-term practice of visual meditation practices and a love of the visual arts grew into a regular practice of photography in 2001 and moved from avocation to a complete way of life and living in 2007.

While honing her craft of photography, she has worked closely with esteemed photographer and master printer George DeWolfe. Memphis has studied eastern traditions including Reiki, Buddhism and Taoism that form her art and life. She has worked as a coordinator and is an instructor at Santa Fe Photographic Workshops.

Memphis has a Bachelor of Arts from Florida State University and has worked as a staff journalist at both the Charlotte Observer and the Myrtle Beach Sun News and has written for Frommer’s Travel Guides.

In addition to photographing the natural world, Memphis often takes on personal projects in support of social and environmental causes. She has documented the experiences of the 2004 Tsunami survivors in India and Sri Lanka and has photographed His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people living in exile in Dharamsala, India. Currently, Memphis is embarking on a personal project about the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.