BIO

Roddy MacInnes was born in Argyll, Scotland in 1953.  After leaving high school at age 15, he spent three years traveling the world in the merchant marine.  In 1972 he immigrated to Canada, where he worked, first as a fur trader with the Hudson’s Bay Company, and then as a minerals prospector with a Canadian mining company.  In 1981 he moved to Colorado, and continued working in minerals exploration.  He then returned to Scotland to gain a degree in photography at Napier University, Edinburgh.  In 1991 he came back to the USA to attend graduate school in Boulder, Colorado.  There he earned an MFA in photography and digital media.  He now teaches photography in the art department at the University of Denver.  Roddy has been documenting his life through photography for over four decades.  His latest photography project was inspired by two albums of photographs he found in an antiques mall in Denver.  The photographs were made by a North Dakota woman in 1917. Through this project Roddy is exploring issues surrounding our relationships with photography, the landscape, sense of place, identity and time.