contributing artists
Shirley Brittingham:
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Photography wasn’t a career for life-long photographer
Shirley Brittingham despite her college
degree. It was a calling.
“I grew up in the era of Life and Look magazines,
poring over the images of my hero W. Eugene Smith and
others. They made a difference
with their images, and I felt I could too,” says the
award-winning former photojournalist. “The acclaim I won
for my 1970’s photo feature calling for fathers’ rights
to be in the delivery room with their wives, rather than
exiled to aimless circles in the waiting room, was an
honor; but the real thrill was that fathers were finally
given these rights.”
She moved on to 15-year career in her other love,
graphic arts, before pursuing abstract and landscape
photography in the wilder areas of New Mexico, where she
prefers to live away from “humankind.”
“I don’t see humans being very kind to one another,” she
says. “And I’d really rather listen to the yodeling of
coyotes. They are far smarter than we, and have
important truths to tell us of how we should treat each
other.”
The artist is seven-year member of the Santa Fe Artist
Market, though she has recently left it to explore other
interests. Her work hangs in private collections
throughout the
The purchase of her work supports the Old Windmill Trail
Farm Animal Sanctuary in
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