Cameron Neilson Photographer
About Cameron Neilson Photographer
In 1995 I graduated from Willamette University of Salem, OR and moved to Jackson Hole, WY. Here I concentrated on landscape and wildlife photography, skiing whenever I could, and working a day job as an associate store manager for the Gap. After a few small gallery shows I switched day jobs and became the Director of Development for the Art Association. My charge was to run the year round art fairs for visiting artists and exhibitors. After a major coup of relocating the summer art fair to the heart of downtown, I entered my first art fair selling fine-art prints. This was very fun, but I still had ambitions in the commercial world. It was during my tenure at the Art Association that I began photographing architecture for local architects and took small commercial product shoots. Intermittent trips to Europe to photograph fashion and architecture kept me inspired. Before long I was too busy with after hours lab work in my home darkroom to do much of anything fun outside of photography. A photographic trip to Kenya and Tanzania in 1999 pushed me to the brink: I quit my day job and opened a commercial photography studio specializing in architecture, interior, and product photography.
