A NOTE ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER
David VanBuskirk has traveled and photographed in the Andean
region of South America over the last twenty years to document
the work of Andean weavers in Peru and in Bolivia. He and his
wife, Elizabeth VanBuskirk, helped to found the Center for Traditional
Textiles of Cusco, Peru which is a public charity incorporated
in Massachusetts which works to preserve Inca weaving traditions
before they are lost. He has exhibited
at the Fleming Museum and the Living and Learning Center Gallery
of the University of Vermont, San Francisco State University,
Franz Albert Associates in Oakland California, the Peabody
Museum in Andover, Massachusetts and elsewhere. His photographs
may also be seen at the website of the Center for Traditional
Textiles, Descendants of the Incas, at www.incas.org, in the
winter,2001 issue of Alpacas Magazine as well as the Cultural
Survival Quarterly.
VanBuskirk is a psychoanalyst and Emeritus Professor
who served as Director of Child Psychiatry in the Department
of Psychiatry of the University of Vermont and previously
at Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Photography
is his second career and he focuses his lens on children,
nature, and the weaving and textile artists of the Andean
Highlands of Peru.
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