Wendy Ploger Photography
about the artist
Born and raised in Southern California, Wendy posseses traits typical of a transplanted West-coaster. She's laid back, but quietly intense and passionate about her work. She handles New York City winters with some difficulty. Her photographic style has a subtle sense of humor and a sharp and discerning aesthetic sense.
After moving cross-country while still in high school, Wendy earned her degree in graphic design at Western Maryland College, now known as McDaniel College. She began her career as an illustrator in mercifully warm San Diego. She then moved back to the Washington, DC area and spent ten years as Art Director for a national non-profit in Washington, DC. Her duties included graphic design, production and layout of a nationally distributed magazine, and start-up, design and production of a second magazine, the award-winning RAIL. Wendy often took on the role of ad-hoc staff photographer, which reminded her of her undergraduate classes and love for her old Miranda.
Wendy studied black and white 35mm photography at the Corcoran Institute in Washington, DC. She also studied at the International Center of Photography in New York and now primarily shoots digitally. Her work has appeared at the HPGRP Gallery and Chelsea Gallery Space in New York City, as well as at the New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery and the Bromfield Gallery in Boston, MA. More recently her photography appeared in the documentary A Nation Remembers — The Story of the Pentagon Memorial, which will air on national television in early 2009.
To keep her warm, Wendy hopes to share her photography with many others.