Graham Gordon Ramsay is a freelance commercial and fine art photographer. His photographic work centers on portraiture, creating images that display a distinctly narrative quality. His portfolio favors these depictions of people, exploring the subtle and complex relationship between self-image and cultural perception. His commercial images have been published extensively throughout the United States and Europe in such publications as The Atlantic Monthly, Science, Time Magazine, and Figaro Magazine.  He has photographed such diverse luminaries as the Dalai Lama, Judah Folkman, and Olivier Messiaen. He is deeply committed to making a safe, open environment in which he and his sitters can collaborate in the process of making the photograph together. For more information about Mr. Ramsay’s work, visit http://www.grahamramsay.com.   Mr. Ramsay is the Program Coordinator and Lecturer at the Experimental Study Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has taught at MIT since 1994, including courses on traditional media processing, portraiture, landscape, figure photography, photo composition, and a variety of archaic fine art process. He is the co-developer of the MIT undergraduate seminar, “Composing Your Life: An Exploration of Self Through Photography, Art, and Writing.” He is co-author of a book based on this subject with psychologist Dr. Holly Sweet, forthcoming from Jessica Kingsley Publishers in 2008.  In addition to his work in photography and education, Mr. Ramsay is an award-winning composer. His recent work The Nightingale, a composition for narrator, flute, organ, and percussion, was recently broadcast world-wide through the Boston PBS radio station WGBH. He has been commissioned to compose new works for such organizations as The Seraphim Singers, The Burgett Ensemble, American Classics, Boston University, and King’s Chapel, Boston.