Mindy Messinger is a professional photographer and painter based in Austin, Texas. She primarily shoots outdoor landscapes and portraits of bands, people, babys, weddings, events & animals, using both film cameras and experimental digital devices.
Mindy originally honed her skills in the position of Photography Editor for yearbooks and newspapers throughout her high-school and college years. She won many awards for her art photography and photo-journalism from the Scholastic Press Association, Kansas State PTA and JEMCK Photo-Journalism Program and the Kansas City Art Institute.
She received her Bachelor's degree in Photo-Journalism and Art Photography in 1998 from Pittsburg State University. Her photo work was concentrated on abstract art, hard news, action sports and music portraits. During her senior year, she became the drama school, lead photographer, responsible for shooting all head shots of actors and performance photos used in advertising, props, and playbills. She held student office in the National Press Photographers Association from 1994-98.
During the summer of 1993, Mindy was a study of product photography and spent the following summer teaching photography at her alma-mater Shawnee Mission South (Overland Park, KS).
From 1998-2000, Lawrence, Kansas was the town called home as she worked as an advertising photographer for The Topeka Capital Journal, The Girard Press and Lawrence Journal World.
In 2000, she moved to the great city of Austin, Texas and currently resides with her husband Mike and her two dogs Sushi and Saki.
Classic Girl Photo
Austin, TX
Available for freelance print or digital photography. Contact me about affordable portrait session done with a photojournalist's eye. I'm all about a relaxed but artist take on the world.