Biography

Tiffany Sanchez grew up in Brownsville, Texas.   From a young age, her parents valued her curious spirit.  They encouraged her to read any book she could get her hands on, write as many short stories as she wished, and create and build using anything she could find outside their small home.  She was only discouraged when she began to harbour a colony of ants that she let in every night through her bedroom window.  Otherwise, she was taught to love and explore the natural world.  Her parents spent many nights with her and her younger sister watching the latest National Geographic televised production, and in this way, promised her the world.

She worked diligently through high school to maintain her status in the top ten percent of her class. However, if it was good fishing weather, she'd manage to skip class to cast out on the bay with her father.  She also spent much of her free in the media lab where she learned to edit everything from music videos of her friends’ metal band to football reels.

Tiffany has since become a dedicated photographer specializing in traditional black and white photography. She treasures her dusty old Pentax and loves rummaging about old wet labs, developing her own film, and producing her own prints.  Her camera is usually trained on natural elements like raindrops on leaves, burned bark, and the occasional open country landscape.  She is currently captivated with the possibilities to posed by using near-infrared film.

Tiffany is a developing artist preferring to work with new media and raw, natural, repurposed, and living materials. Her passions include digging her hands into the dirt and cultivating new plants, conducting experiments, and building things.  She has thus determined to pursue bio art as the main focus of her MFA in Visualization at Texas A&M University.

Tiffany still finds time to fish. She'll fish while the sun rises over the surf and when the sun sets over the bay.  And her father will be fishing right by her side, just like he did when she was little.

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