Hey, I’m Susan, multi-passionate visual storyteller, award winning photographer, and nomad-at-heart who loves Chicago as my home base. A photographer since 2nd grade, with over two decades experience in the nonprofit sector managing data and communicating for impact, I bring my passions and skills together to provide an array of creative and business services for organizations and individuals.
A life-long Chicagoan, I love sharing my city with locals and visitors. My interests are focused on art, architecture, Lake Michigan and the Chicago River, and social justice history.
📷 I lead 90-minute art & architecture walking tours in downtown Chicago, which double as cell phone camera workshops, with occasional hikes in regional forest preserves and parks - Join me for an upcoming photo walk.
🗺️ I offer a selection of self-guided Chicago tours - half-day or full-day that include place descriptions and a Google map - Purchase self-guided tours.
📃 Want to level up with a custom tour? Contact me at least two weeks before your visit, and we'll see what we can do!
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Susan sitting by "The Picasso" in Daley Plaza
Purchase award-winning photography as a unique gift or home decor. Shop my photography store for framed art, blankets and pillows, and other photo gifts. You'll find scenes from Chicago and my travels across the United States, as well as Europe - mostly Ireland, Munich, Vienna, and Valencia.
Available for immediate digital download / print-at-home formatted, I have a Scenes of Chicago journal and an 18-month calendar, filled to the brim with gorgeous Chicago photography by me!
Participants in a group cell phone photography workshop and walk in the woods.
For nonprofits and grantmakers, I manage your external communications channels, so you can focus on your mission. I develop content calendars; write and publish blog posts, newsletters, and social media content; and source, organize, and create visuals for various communications channels.
Need better photo documentation of events, programs, and meetings? Want a creative staff retreat experience? I also do group cell phone photography workshops.
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I freelance write and photograph for local, national, and international media, focused on:
sustainability and philanthropy in travel
the outdoors and water activities
food and culture
arts and architecture
Chicago, through the lens of the above topics