Photographer Barbara Michelman started in Hollywood and was one of the first women in film lighting. Widely exhibited, with work in public and private collections here and abroad, her recent series on the aftermath of fires in the West, Fire on Every Mountain, was awarded Best of Photography at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival in California, was also exhibited in the ongoing global exhibition Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, which will be archived at the Nevada Museum of Art. She holds a degree in Philosophy from UC Berkeley and lives in Missoula, MT.

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