Phyllis Kimmel and Suzy McIntire will share a combined Member’s Gallery focused on street photography around Washington DC and New York. Phyllis will share photos from local street fairs and festivals in Washington DC – both spontaneous and street portraits – along with some other local and NYC street photography. Suzy enjoys walking around the city, noticing what people and animals are up to, and capturing their sometimes unusual activities.

BIO – Phyllis Kimmel

Phyllis has loved photography for as long as she can remember and was thrilled with the Canon AE-1 she received as a Bat Mitzvah gift from her grandmother.  Eventually Phyllis went digital and shot with Canon DSLRs until, in 2023, she took the leap to a Fuji mirrorless camera.

Phyllis combines her love of hiking and the outdoors with photography.  She spends her weekends camera in hand, exploring trails, mountains, parks, gardens, and more.  She finds herself drawn to the beauty in the ordinary and focusing on capturing the smaller details around her.  Over the past six years, Phyllis has been a volunteer photographer for a local non-profit, Community of Hope, and with that, began aspiring to become more comfortable with people as subjects.  More recently, she’s stepped even farther outside her comfort zone with street photography—a fun endeavor. 

Phyllis has been a member of NVPS for the past nine years or so.  She received an Honorable Mention at the October 2022 Art League Patterns exhibit, and in February 2023, two of her photographs won first and second place in their categories of the Washington Gardener photo competition.

BIO – Suzy McIntire

With her first Olympus film camera, Suzy McIntire took all the photos for her 2002 garden book (An American Cutting Garden, UVA Press). For many years at the Natural History Museum, she photographed small fossils for researchers and the collections database.  Using a microscope, scientific camera, and software for “extended depth of field” (EDF) photos, these were composites sometimes of as many as 25 pictures.  She once was asked to photograph what a museum visitor claimed was a fossil apple—this visitor planned to sell it to Apple for a million dollars to fund his retirement. (A paleontologist had to tell him it was not a fossil apple.) 

In 2012 Suzy won the Washington Post Humor Photo Contest for a photo of an outhouse on a dinosaur dig in Wyoming.  Tiring of documentary pictures, she got a Fuji camera three years ago and found happiness in street photography and urban landscapes. This past month she was pleased to get a photo into the Exposed DC annual competition.  She has been an NVPS member since 2019, unless it was 2018.