Laura Sutta is an award-winning photographer who specializes in Lake Merritt: splendid sunsets, squawking waterfowl, and vivid cityscapes, as well as The Faces of Prayer:

The Alameda County Art Commission acquired six of her photographs in 2008 as part of the Alameda County Art Collection and they are currently displayed in county buildings. Her work was recently chosen in a Juried Art Contest by the San Francisco Estuary Project and exhibited with the other 20 winners at the Oakland Marriott.

During the last two years Sutta has exhibited her art at Pro Arts, Studio One, the Berkeley Arts Center, Lakeview Library, Lake Merritt Rotary Nature Center, L'Amyx Tea Bar, Lionel J. Wilson Building, Grand Lake Neighborhood Center, and the Rock, Paper, Scissors Collective Gallery in Oakland and at Chochmat Halev Synagogue in Berkeley. In January, 2009, her work was cited as 'notable' by DeWitt Chang, an arts reporter from the East Bay Express.

Her photographs hang in professional offices, public spaces, and form part of private collections in the Bay Area, India and Israel. They have been used in advertising campaigns, as well as by the Oakland Chamber of Commerce.

Born and educated in the US, she lived abroad, primarily in Israel, for twenty-three years. She has an MSW and an MPH from UC Berkeley and taught and directed university and in-service training courses in the States, Germany and in Israel.

In 1992 she fell ill with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Unable to work for many years, she learned to appreciate stillness in life and in nature. The combination of the long periods of stillness required by the illness, and an apartment overlooking Lake Merritt led to her career in professional photography.

She is married and has two children. She can be contacted directly at 510-444-3820; sutta@earthlink.net.