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Gail Russell was a painter and printmaker before she became a photographer. She had her first one woman show of paintings and silk-screens at fifteen years of age. Russell went on to study at The Albright School of Fine Arts, Buffalo, N.Y. and Pratt and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. In 1968 Gail Russell changed mediums and apprenticed to Richard Davis, Fashion Photographer and continued to live and work in the Connecticut and New York area until she moved West to Arroyo Hondo, NM. Russell works in black and white, sepia toned and color photography, and digital imagery. Gail Russell's images of Southwestern Culture, Landscapes, Plant life, Temples and Antiquities, have been in private collections, museums, galleries, and in the pages of national and international magazines for the past twenty five years.