Photographer, educator, and freelance technical consultant, Arlene specializes in documenting remote cultures and changing civilizations around the world. She currently teaches and leads international photography workshops, offers a master photography class in her New York City studio and is available for private consultation. Arlene studied with renowned photographers, including Lisette Model. She earned her MA in Media Studies from The New School and a MFA from Hunter College in New York City. She is on the faculty of Parsons School of Design and the Maine Media Workshops and for over 15 years she has taught at the International Center of Photography in New York City. Internationally she has lectured at The Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, ROSPHOTO the Russian State Photography Center in St. Petersburg, Russia, Jerusalem Out of Focus in Israel, The Burmese Photographers Association in Yangon, Myanmar and at the Istanbul Photography Center in Istanbul, Turkey. In New York City, she was a panelist on the Night Photography Seminar at Photo Plus, and has reviewed portfolios at Photo Plus, The New York Photo Festival and for the Society for Photographic Education. Arlene’s photographs have been published in The New York Times and World Press Review. In Holland, her Rodeo photographs were published in Amerika magazine and her Machu Picchu photographs were published in Hasselblad’s Forum magazine. Her Boxing photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of New York City and the Brooklyn Museum. Her photography advice was featured on cnn.com/travel, and her travel photography workshops have been featured on CNN/headlinenews/travel and in Travel and Leisure magazine. In 2008, Arlene curated ‘From Afar: Documenting Traditions, Witnessing Transitions’ at the International Center of Photography Education Gallery. She also curated ‘Heaven and Earth’ a 2007 group exhibition at Gallery Chateau in New York City, featuring photography from the participants of her Ladakh, India photography workshop. Arlene continues to travel, teaching workshops around the world in Turkey, Morocco, Mexico, Vietnam, Cambodia, Croatia, Bhutan, Cuba, India, China, Tibet, Laos, Burma, Mongolia, Togo, Benin, Mali, Russia and Papua New Guinea thus far.