Linda Connor is a professor in the Photography Department at the San Francisco Art Institute where she has taught since 1969 and is a founding director of the prominent Bay Area non-profit, PhotoAlliance. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and later received her Ms degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Connor states: "the strongest and most consistent content in my work is the investigation of the cultural boundaries between the natural and the sacred." Her luminous photographs, taken exclusively with an 8 x 10 inch view camera, contemplate the poetry and mystery of ancient sites and the timeless realms of the spirit. Connor uses printing techniques that date back to photography's early beginnings. She makes contact prints by placing the 8 x 10 inch negatives on special paper, laying it outside in her garden, and exposing them to the sun acting as active agent in creating these prints. She then tones the prints with gold chloride. Connor does not manipulate the image. In part, her ability to capture light is what makes her photographs appear to reveal the presence of something holy.' height= Linda Connor: Machu Pichu, Peru, 1984
Linda Connor: Machu Pichu, Peru, 1984