Photographer, educator, and freelance technical consultant, Arlene specializes in documentary and commercial photography. She currently leads international photography workshops around the world, 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, the International Center of Photography and teaches summer workshops at the Maine Media Workshops. Internationally she has lectured at The Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, 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 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 photographs of Boxers are in the permanent collections of the Museum of New York City and the Brooklyn Museum. Her photography advice can be found at 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, India, China, Tibet, Laos, Myanmar, Mongolia and Papua New Guinea thus far.