About David Schroeder

David is both an artist and a clinical psychologist. He has a wide range of artistic interests and has pursued his muse on creative adventures with drawing, painting, singing, acting and writing. As a therapist, he also integrated art into his professional life through the techniques of art therapy, psychodrama, and most recently, "edu-tainment" his name for an improvisational theater based method of providing psychological education to the general public. It was in these cross-over areas that David first came in contact with photography.

David bought his first 35 mm camera in the early 1970's to create slide shows of the work his clients were doing in art therapy and was immediately seduced by the apparent ease with which a camera could produce dramatic images. Naively, he gave up his interest in other graphic media and began to use the camera as his primary means of artistic expression. It didn’t take long, however, for him to discover that photography was so easy and so tightly grounded in reality that it seemed next to impossible to find and develop his own personal point of view. It is probably this  struggle to see and express his unique perception on life through a rigid and uncompromising medium that has kept him involved with photography longer that with his other passions.

As a photographer, David describes himself as eclectic. He is equally drawn to images of plants, animals, people, places, and things. However, in all areas, he is most attracted to pictures that capture emotion, imagination or story. He exhibits regularly at local art galleries and has had numerous one-man shows. He also shares his photographic work through the sale of prints and photo art cards.

David continues to use a 35 mm camera as his primary means of expression. He uses Canon cameras and lenses and has recently completed the joyful transition to digital photography - he never did like the darkroom or the struggles involved with getting others to print his work the way he wanted.

David lives and works in Modesto,California.

You may contact him at David@AnUncommonEye.com