Nancy Warner

Nancy Warner grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. By 1976 she had found her way to San Francisco via Boston, Europe, Africa, Canada, and Mexico. During her first years in the city, she learned basic photographic techniques by building her own pinhole cameras and working as an offset printer and graphic artist. After buying a medium format camera in 1983 she took a series of classes and private workshops with Ruth Bernhard, Jim Goldberg, Martha Casanave, John Sexton, and other California photographers.

In 1992 she gave up a career as a book designer and book production manager to open a photography studio in San Francisco Chinatown. Since then she has created several series of fine-art photographs that have been exhibited across the US. She has become quite well-known as a portrait photographer and her studio is still located in SF Chinatown, not far from the financial district, where she focuses on both fine-art photography and commercial portraiture.

Many of the photographs in "This Place, These People: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains" were originally exhibited under the title "Going Back: Midwestern Farm Places". The photographs in the book are currently available for sale, licensing. and exhibition. To bring this exhibition to your community contact Nancy Warner.