Photographer, historian, writer and perpetual student of all things photographic describes Angela Crews. As an environmental documentary photographer, Angela’s approach pays a deeply respectful homage to the many historic photographers she researches. Always using film processes for her documentary work, Angela is reaching back further into photography’s rich 182-year plus history using 19th century processes to include wet plate collodion, dry plate and cyanotype to discover and document Colorado Springs’ over 150-year history. 

Focusing on the landscape of Colorado Springs for this project, Angela photographed at the Garden of the Gods, Glen Eyrie, and the Hoodoos of Palmer Park and Woodmen Valley (today, the neighborhoods of Rockrimmon), taking into consideration what these landscapes and early geology must have looked like 150 years ago to the early settlers, before they were interlaced with roads, neighborhoods, and parks.

Angela earned her Bachelor of Fine Art, and Master of Fine Art degrees in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design. With thirty years of experience working in commercial arts and photography, and teaching traditional darkroom techniques for more than fifteen years, she is currently focusing on her own long-term environmental documentary projects which concentrate on the man-altered landscape, and the preservation of the authenticity of small western towns. She also researches, writes and designs book layouts for Rhyolite Press, and Art Papers Press, a new publishing imprint she co-founded with Don Kallaus.