Lesley Louden
“Photographs give us knowledge, but not a complete story or idea; AND, photojournalism should be accurate and comprehensive in the representation of subjects such as no staging and no digital manipulation; BUT art photography can break these rules…”
Lesley Louden is a documentary and art photographer, and professor in art photography at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, CA. She has been teaching photography to wonderful students at the college level for the past fifteen years in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her photographic work has been featured in exhibitions at the San Jose Museum of Art, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, the World Affairs Council in SF, and the George Soros Foundation Moving Walls Documentary Photography Exhibition in NYC and Washington DC. Lesley studied photography at Ohio Wesleyan University (BFA), the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia (MA), and Cranbrook Academy of Art (MFA).