Susan Urmy is a 26-year-old artist, born in New York but raised in Nashville, Tennessee. During a fine arts course in high school, she discovered photography. She received her formal training at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts and The New England School of Photography in Boston.
Susan has studied and worked with professional photographers both in New England and the South including Tom Petit, Stephen Sheffield, Nick Johnson and Tracy Powell. Her most recent position was that of staff photographer for the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee which has given her experience in both photojournalism and documentary work. Her photos can be found in several University publications including The weekly Vanderbilt Reporter, as well as House Organ, Nurse Magazine, EQ, and On Their Way. She has also been a contributing photographer for a children's book, Nathan's Special Heart produced by the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt.
Not content with only the commercial-corporate genre, Susan puts her talents to work in other genres, including portraiture, travel, formal studio work, fine art and photojournalism. She brings her love for the arts and people together through photographic storytelling that brings the observers eye to rest on the abstract, unseen and forgotten beauty in life. Through her abstract work she explores both the conscious and the unconscious aspect of life.
Susan has a deep passion for living a joyful and integrity filled life and this comes through in her artistic journey.