LYNN FRIEDMAN
Travel Writer Photographer in San Francisco, California, USA
Where it all started.
In a one story brick home in Milwaukee Wisconsin I grew up the only child of the only Jewish, over-educated, east-coast native parents in the entire school district. My predominantly Scandinavian and German neighbors kept to themselves and meticulously sculpted the foliage with mathematical precision. Long summer days were spent playing alone in the yard or going on rides to nowhere with my mother. The only thing that got the neighbors together would be the sound of an approaching fire engine. People would suddenly appear with folding lawn chairs, lining up on the sidewalk in an orderly fashion to watch the fire. Such were my beginnings as an outsider. I now capture that glimpse into other people's inner worlds, like Diane Arbus with better meds, or a midwestern Henri Cartier-Bresson. The Midwest is no longer my home. I use the eyes of a now foreign traveler to help reveal what was hidden to me as a native.
Professional Me:
I'm a travel writer/ photographer.
11 Emmys, 2 Associated Press, 2 Edward R Murrow, 3 RTNDA, Humane Society Genesis Award, NATAS Governors' Award, NATAS Silver Circle Inductee
Past President, NATAS SF/Nor Cal
Working With Difficult People Certificate