Melissa’s two main projects are about life changing events that happened within a year of each other: losing her dad to dementia, and losing her home to a volcano. Recently she studied handmade artist’s books and is using their unstructured freedom to continue exploring change and resilience. She’s a former studio and location photographer in Washington DC during the 80s and 90s, and was recognized by The Washingtonian Magazine. After a decade of photographing for clients, she moved to Hawaii in 1996 and returned to personal photography.
