DEBORAH MILLS THACKREY

Deborah Mills Thackrey was born on Route 66 in the Texas Panhandle town of Amarillo in 1953. Frequent childhood road trips throughout the Southwest with its dramatic sunsets, neon signs, roadside snake shows, and desert national parks impacted her visual style. At the age of 20 she joined the migration of youth to San Francisco to seek a more progressive and art-friendly environment... Her passion for photography was inspired in childhood by photojournalists covering the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War. She worked as a photographer for her junior high and high school yearbooks, and took many photo classes in college to get darkroom time. As a career Thackrey became an art director working at companies such as Apple directing top commercial photographers... Around the year 2000, she picked up a camera after a long absence from shooting. Thackrey and her husband, photographer Tom Thackrey, began spending time in the historic Carmel, CA photography community. They got to know and..

Primary location: Kingston United States