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Anna Zuckerman-Vdovenko graduated from Princeton University and then went on to study Graphic Art and Illustration at Art Center College of Design in Pasendena. She worked for tourist companies as a photographer and visited many remote places where she was challenged to capture images that represented Nature in its most pristine moments. In 1985, Anna formed Eye on the World Photography, a collection of her work together with other colleagues that traveled together over a period of ten years to places as diverse as Antarctica, the Geographic North Pole, Amazon, South Pacific, Africa, Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, Greenland, the Russian Arctic, etc. Recently, Anna's interest in the Polar Regions of the world took her to Cambridge, England, where she received her Master's Degree in Polar Studies. Her dissertation was on Wrangel Island, a remote island in the Russian Arctic which is the largest denning ground in the world for polar bears. Anna prefers to shoot in natural light and avoids studio work in lieu of capturing wildlife, scenics and traditional peoples. Anna's brothers introduced her to photography, as they too are professional photographers who specialize in museum archival work for preservation, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Anna uses Nikon F-4s but cautions that batteries need to be ready for quick recharge in the cold of the polar regions. She often prefers to research and study her subject carefully with attentiveness before shooting it on film. Anna has been to the North Pole via icebreaker 12 times and will be visiting once again this summer. She appreciates being in the wilderness of the sea-ice and feels that each voyage into the Arctic Sea is unique because of the endless, colorful shapes of the ice and the unusual polar lighting at the far ends of the earth.