Susan Drinker is an artistic photographer whose creative vision first emerged when she turned nine years old.  With a $20 birthday gift from her grandmother, she outfitted herself with a Kodak twin lens flip-top camera, launching a life-long passion for photography.  She continued to hone her skills the University of Denver, during post-graduate studies at the Art Institute of Boston, and in workshops with such masters as Paul Caponigro, Jerry Uelsmann, Ernst Haas, Michael O’Neil, David Ulrich and Gene Richards.

She has worked as a photographer professionally for 22 years.  In 1991 she become the first woman ever awarded a Marlboro assignment.

In 1993 Fuji film division chose her color panoramic landscapes for a national testimonial advertisement.  Lord Edward Montegues’s family commissioned her to photograph the New Forest, Beaulieu, in Southern England, and she photographed a book about the life of a young Chinese girl living in Hong Kong during the transition from British to Chinese rule.