ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Ana has been involved in photography for over 30 years. Mainly self-taught, she uses the camera as a tool to portray the world as it can still be found in some corners of the planet.

A love for the natural world, its wild creatures and spaces, has taken Ana to Africa on four separate occasions. There, she captured on film the day-to-day activities of numerous species of animals living free and unrestrained. Closer to home, she finds spectacular images in her travels throughout the United States and Canada. Ana has also worked with computer manipulations and created two series entitled “Altered Visions” and “Fantasies”.

After her move to Arizona and a long hiatus away from photography, she has again taken out her camera and now enjoys photographing her new surroundings in the American Southwest. 

BIOGRAPHY

Ana was a Polaroid Creative Use Consultant and lead workshops on Polaroid Emulsion (lifts) and Image Transfer processes. She has led workshops at The Print Center in Philadelphia, Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, Highland Cultural Center, Somerset Art Association, the Garrison Arts Center, and at local camera clubs in the NYC tri-state area. She also led private workshops to suit the student’s schedule and interests.

In 2024, Ana was awarded an Artist Opportunity Grant by the Arizona Commission on the Arts in support of her 2025 two person exhibit, Desert Textures, at the Baldwin Gallery of the Arizona Sonora Desert Mueum.  Previously, Ana received a Special Opportunity Stipend grant by the New York Foundation for the Arts and the NYS Council for the Arts. Among her awards are the Phillip Isenberg Memorial Award (1st prize in photography) at the Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit and 2nd prize in photography at the Housatonic Art League Art Show. 

Ana is currently an exhibiting member artist of the Southern Arizona Arts Guild Gallery in Tucson, and her work can also be found in the Tubac Center of the Arts gift shop and the Cactus Wren Gallery in Tubac.  

One of the premier stock agencies for nature photographers, Animals Animals/Earth Scenes, has represented her work since 1989. Her images have been used in the Velvet Claw Portfolio of BBC Wildlife Magazine, on the cover of Hallmark’s Untamed Africa calendar, on the video cover for Predator: Polar Bears from Time/Life videos, and by other educational and promotional firms.