Barbara Blaisdell   

Barbara has been photographing people and places for most of her life.  Beginning with a Brownie Hawkeye around the age of twelve, she advanced to more sophisticated cameras, added lenses, filters and kept right on shooting.  Over the years she has photographed anything and everything - from chronicling the daily lives and special events of her family and friends to preserving memories of journeys taken to capturing a moment in nature.

A graduate of Temple University, Barbara taught English at high schools in Philadelphia and New York.  During the 1970's she journeyed with her husband and two sons to the wilds of Alaska where they built a log house from trees on their land and learned how to deal with the unpredictability of nature.  After that she and her family moved to Raleigh then Charlotte, NC, then Greenville, SC.  She and her husband have recently moved to Wake Forest, NC.

Barbara has done everything from drive a tractor trailer, to own a personnel consulting firm with her husband, to manage a temporary staffing service.  No matter where she's been or what she's done, photography has always been her passion.  Her photographs can be found in numerous private collections throughout the Southeastern United States.  In addition, her works have been exhibited at Furman University, the Commerce Club, Oliver Yu Gallery, and Upstate Visual Arts in Greenville, SC.  She participates in art fairs and exhibitions throughout the year and has just opened a retail space in the Cotton Company in Wake Forest, NC.