Nancy is a full-time
freelance photographer and journalist working in and around Western New York, she is well-known and respected within the community, and is sought after for her
artful and open style.
She studied Photography, and English Literature at University at Buffalo, earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1987.
She created an independent study curriculum via Black Mountain College II in Arts Management to incorporate (and earn credit
for) her extracurricular activities programming arts events for the community.
Nancy studied at Parsons School of Design in Manhattan, earning a Master of Fine Arts there in 2005
– part of their first-ever class going through this program.
For fifteen years Nancy documented cultural events in Western New York for inclusion in her photo
essay column What Has Happened that she created – published in Artvoice, a free weekly publication.
Among her long list of clients, assignments, and commissions: selected
to document the New York State Democratic Convention for the Democratic Party; chosen to be part of a group of photographers
making images of the visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama during his Buffalo, NY visit (included in a book published by SUNY
at Buffalo); commissioned to create images of the three U.B. campuses for a forthcoming coffee table book (Autumn 2008 publication
date).
Nancy is a proud member of Nikon Professional
Services, National Press Photographers Association, American Society of Media Photographers, WedPlan, and Buffalo Society
of Artists. She has won awards for her art photography and is a past recipient of Buffalo Business First's 40 Under
Forty award.
