Ten years is the long time, but the great memory never forgotten. When I was at Wat Bo, Siem Reap province in 2000, I was asked for taking a photo by an American woman, but I don’t even her name. A year later, she backed to my temple again and brought me two photographies. Her translator told me that a photo is for me, and another is for my family. At that time, I really wanted to say ” thank you” to her and wanted to communicate with her more but I know nothing neither speaking now writing English. What I can do just smile. Whenever I see the photo, I always miss her. I don’t know why. The word “thank you” that I want to say, still in my mind. Since I have learned how to browse the internet, I have been trying to search the word “Linda Connor” that printed behind the photo. Fortunately, today I can find it via http://www.pointlight.com.au/art_connor.html . My wonder is unclosed, I know her name now.
Linda Connor (born November 18, 1944) is an American photographer who is widely acknowledged and acclaimed for her unique visual style. Taking photographs with a large format view camera in exotic locations, contact printing the images using sunlight, then gold-toning the prints, Connor achieves rich and glorious results. Connor studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and received a Master’s degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Connor’s photographs appear in a number of books, including Spiral Journey, a catalog of her exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in 1990. Connor was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1988 and 1976, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979. Connor’s work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Connor’s noted images include a photograph of a ceremonial cloth carefully wrapped around a tree trunk in Bali, petroglyphs hidden in the cliff dwellings of Arizona, star trails in Mexico, and votive candles meticulously arranged for ceremonial rites at Chartres. Connor is a professor in the Photography Department at the San Francisco Art Institute where she has taught since 1969. She is also a founding director of the San Francisco Bay Area non-profit group,PhotoAlliance.