Gail Sanders started pursuing art at a young age, learning to sketch and draw, then to crochet and sew. This led to a business creating historical costumes for stage and re-enactments. She studied urban design and architecture at the University of Minnesota, computer aided design at Parkland College, engineering at Normandale College, Information Technology at the University of Phoenix and is currently finishing an Information Technology Degree at Indiana Tech. Her personal library extensively covers textiles, sculpture, architecture and the great masters, from ancient Peru to Frank Lloyd Wright and Saarinen.
At age 35, Gail embarked upon a tremendous personal journey, training for and then completing Army Basic Combat Training, followed by almost a year at the Defense INFOrmation School (DINFOS), where she studied Video Production, Still Photography and Army Common Tasks to qualify as a combat photographer, emerging as class leader and honor graduate. Besides studio and location photos, including those for intelligence or crime scene evidence, Gail can handle subjects moving at high speed around obstacles and under fire, who are trying desperately to not be visible. While not obvious, this skill translates well to weddings and other events, where people are moving and interacting, not holding still in fixed poses.
Based in Greenwood, Indiana, Gail pursues photography as an art, a hobby and a business. In the civilian world as in the military, her camera is along at all times, to document people, natural events or the odd and unique. Whether one is archiving valuable possessions for insurance, documenting an accident for a claim, putting together an album of a reunion or wedding or taking family or graduation portraits, Gail has the professional training and artistic eye to make it different.
