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The Arts Partnership interviews the visual artist and trained biologist about his approach, influences and past work experience as a software engineer.
From science to art Moving away from a career in science almost 10 years ago, where he led field studies ranging from islands on Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico, Lamey is a self-taught artist who has been working full time in the arts ever since, with a focus on digital and film photography. “I spent a lot of time when I was transitioning from thinking like a biologist to thinking like an artist and photographer and trying to figure out if there was some marriage between the two," he says. Part of this process included wandering the countryside and shooting photos from public lands and ...