Art

Sandra Dyas

Sandra Dyas PhotoDrawn to people and their environments - and especially natural light, Sandra strives to create a collaborative and authentic portrait of the world we live in. "Photography is a brilliant medium for exploring the outside world and expressing ideas I cannot adequately say with words. My photographs are of seemingly ordinary subject matter. I look for photographs in the constantly changing world that strike a note with me; images that contain reality and ambiguity. I use my camera as a way to see, to interact with the world and to remember."

Early in her career, Sandra owned a small portraiture business in Bellevue, a small Iowa town near the Mississippi River. A dozen years later, she moved to the university town of Iowa City. Sandra received her MFA in Intermedia (Performance Art & Video). Her first book of photographs entitled Down to the River; Portraits of Iowa Musicians was published by the University of Iowa Press in June 2007.

She was named "Iowa Photographer" in 2005 by Photo District News, a photography magazine for professional photographers. Currently she is involved in a one year photo project entitled The 50 States Project (http://www.50statesproject.net/); Sandra Dyas was chosen as Iowa's photographer. She is an artist, freelance photographer and a Lecturer in the Art & Art History Department at Cornell College.

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Last Updated: 9/1/09