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Celia
Pearson has been an assignment and fine art
photographer for over 25 years. She grew up
on a farm outside of Washington, DC, and spent
summers on the coast of Maine. While pursuing
undergraduate studies at Swarthmore College
and Georgetown University, Pearson began to
study photography with Richard Bond in Annapolis,
Maryland. Her initial interest was casual. Little
did she know that Bond's lectures would spark
a passion that would define her adult life.
Pearson
soon began to exhibit in Annapolis galleries.
In 1979 she established Pearson Photography
and started to shoot assignments. For years
she turned her attention to being a “pro”, gradually
mastering medium and large format photography
and becoming an accomplished black-and-white
and color printer.
Ten
years ago Pearson returned to her first love
of fine art photography - her “personal work”,
inner driven and closest to her heart. Once
again she began to exhibit. Her affinity for
photographing with her camera often only inches
from her subjects is well known and the artist's
work has been shown in galleries in Maryland,
Delaware, Massachusetts, Florida, and Washington,
DC.
At
the same time in her assignment business Pearson
established a specialty in photographs of designed
spaces created around natural light. She has
earned a national reputation for her images
of interiors, architecture, and gardens, and
her assignment portfolio has included publications
such as Metropolitan Home, Southern
Accents, Coastal Living, Chesapeake Life, Style
Magazine, and Residential Architect.
In
2004 Pearson added two coffee table books to
her credits: Wayne L. Good, Architect: Tradition,
Elegance, Repose, which is a monograph
published in four languages; and Pure SEA
GLASS, written and published by Richard
LaMotte. The very popular Pure SEA GLASS
has had unprecedented success for a self-published
book. Over 60,000 copies have been sold to date
and Pearson signed a contract in 2007 with Bruce
McGaw Graphics, one of the largest poster companies
in the world, to release 16 sea glass fine art
posters from the book.
Pearson
lives in Annapolis, Maryland . She is a member
of ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers)
and the Maryland Federation of Art, where she
served on the board as fundraising chair for
four years. In mid-career Pearson received an
honorary YWCA TWIN Award (Tribute to Women and
Industry). As a result of the book Pure
SEA GLASS Pearson's work came to the attention
of Maryland Public Television and was the subject
of a segment on ArtWorks in October
2004. Pearson was the 2007 recipient of the
Arts Council of Anne Arundel County's Annie
Award for Visual Arts.
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