Suzanne Levine

"Spirit of Survival", b/w gelatin silver print (24" x 20"), 1993

San Francisco, CA - "When it comes to disability, I can't help but make the personal political."

Suzanne Levine, a visual artist who has dyslexia and other information processing disabilities, received her M.A. in anthropology and is a freelance photographer who uses a 35mm camera to capture her subjects.

Active not only in the art community of San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area, she is also involved in the disability community in a number of capacities. Levine was a researcher for the World Institute on Disability and attended the International Women's Conference in Beijing in 1995 as a member of a group of women with disabilities from the U.S.

Levine has displayed her photographs from her trip to Beijing in several Bay Area settings. In addition, her photographs have been published in numerous magazines such as New Mobility, Spinal Network, and Mainstream Magazine.