Gloria Baker Feinstein

I have been a photographer since the age of three, when, for some reason one day - and it was surely unexplainable at the time - I propped my favorite stuffed bunny against a cardboard box, gently arranged his long, soft ears, and then took his picture with my Rocket Brownie camera. Apparently, I took lots of pictures as a child; there are many photographs in the family albums featuring me with a camera dangling from my wrist or draped around my neck, and even more images of me aiming my camera at carefully arranged subjects.

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I know now that it was the perfect way for a very young girl to help make sense of her world - to put people, places and events into some sort of order - and to commemorate and preserve the details of life around her.

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It was something I obviously felt the need to do early on and something I have never abandoned.

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