Parker Pfister

Parker Pfister is an artist, educator, dreamer, and full-time photographer based in Asheville, NC. With more than 50 years behind the camera and over 26 years of teaching and exhibiting his work internationally, photography has been a lifelong practice of curiosity, exploration, and discovery. His photographic career has spanned nearly every genre, from newspaper photojournalism and commercial assignments to 25 years photographing high-end weddings. Today, his work centers on fine art portraiture and narrative documentary photography. His photography and teaching have taken him around the world, inspiring photographers to step beyond the familiar, embrace experimentation, and reconnect with the wonder that first drew them to making photographs.