Elizabeth Siegfried, born in Baltimore Maryland in 1955, has lived and worked in Toronto, Canada for the past twenty years. Siegfried’s university studies were in English but upon graduation she followed her passion for photography and participated in a six-month residency program at The Maine Photographic Workshops (MPW) in Rockport, Maine. Over the following fifteen years, Siegfried returned to MPW five times including a month as artist in residence with an emphasis on platinum printing. Later in Boston, Massachusetts, Sal Lopes, the celebrated master platinum printer, mentored Siegfried. In 1992 Siegfried was an artist in Resident at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Banff, Alberta. www.elizabethsiegfried.com.
Siegfried’s photographs have been reproduced and discussed in such publications as SHOTS magazine, Schwarzweiss, La Fotografia Actual, Camera Arts, Photo Life Magazine, ARTNews, Photo Educator Magazine and The Women’s Daybook. In 2008, she was one of the featured photographers on Behind The Camera, a television production aired on Bravo! and Discovery HD.