The Middle Street Gallery

Susan Raines

4844 Langdrum Lane
Chevy Chase MD 20815

301-656-0481
202-258-0856 (cell)

70 Middle of No Way Lane (Fri to Mon)
Castleton, VA 22716
540-937-2579

email: sraineshome@starpower.net

Susan Raines grew up in Alabama and studied history and art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Virginia. Her love of photography began around age 10 when she photographed friends and family with her Brownie camera. This interest in making portraits has continued throughout her life. After college she worked at the Tuscaloosa News where she learned to develop and print her black-and-white images. Her love of portrait photography intensified when she had a family - her two sons became recurrent subjects and she was commissioned to do candid portraits of children and families. She frequently assembled these photographs into handmade books.

Susan spent many years as a free lance photographer doing magazine and newspaper work in Atlanta, Washington D.C., and London. Her photographs have been published in the Atlanta Constitution Sunday Magazine, The Washington Post, The New York Times and The NYT Sunday Magazine, The International Herald Tribune, and Time Magazine. She taught photography in the journalism department at the University of Maryland and has worked at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Art Services International, two commercial art galleries and at the National Endowment for the Arts.

Susan continues her black-and-white work -- medium format and 35 millimeter portrait and still-life studies - but in recent years has been using a digital camera, experimenting with color and spontaneity. She has had exhibitions of her work at Nexus Gallery in Atlanta and at the Kathleen Ewing Gallery in Washington, D.C. She has also showed her photographs of children at Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C.