Photographer Evon Stone's Chicago childhood was forever brightened
when she received her first primitive box camera as a gift. Since
that tenth birthday she has taken award-winning pictures in all the
cities where she's lived: Phoenix, Honolulu, Anchorage and Seattle.
Evon comes from a long line of photographers starting with her great-grandfather
who was an architectural photographer in Chicago in the late 1800's.
Her grandmother was the family historian and passed on photo advice
and photos (even tin types) from her father. Evon studied with Jerry
Uelsman (a protégé of Ansel Adams) at the Winter Park Art School in
Florida. It was in Seattle that her love of photography brought her
to the Emerald City's Museum of History and Industry where she worked
in the Photo department as an archivist and printer of antique glass
plate negatives from the Webster & Stevens collection of commercial
photos ranging from 1900 to the 1960's. Currently, Evon divides her
time between her home on Oxnard's Silver Strand and her position as
a computer software expert in the health care field. Evon is married
to a novelist and former television executive and she looks forward
to capturing the vivid beauty of Ventura County life on film.
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