meet CURT

Curt Guy was born in Washington DC to a military family, eventually

settling on the east coast of Florida at the age of seven. His father, though

a Colonel, dabbled in photography as an avocation, which ignited Curt’s

love of cameras, images and composition. Living on the coast of Florida,

Curt found many opportunities to capture the surrounding flora and fauna.

He received his BA in Cinema and Photography from Southern Illinois

University. While in Illinois, he had internships in Industrial Photography at

Grignon-Stadler Studio in Chicago, followed by an internship in Medical

Photography at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in

Springfield.

He was hired as the Medical Photographer for the Department of Plastic

Surgery, where he produced pre, intra and post-operative photographs, as

well as various marketing images. He also met his future wife, Roxanne, in

Springfield.

He travelled overseas several times as the Medical Photographer for

Operation Smile, a humanitarian organization providing reconstructive

surgery to underserved areas in Africa, the Philippines and elsewhere.

Curt returned to Florida with Roxanne to oversee the building and

management of her practice in Plastic Surgery and to provide the

photography for her patients. He photographed his other passion, road

cycling, both in Florida and on overseas bicycling trips in France, Italy and

Ireland.

He continued humanitarian trips to India as well as other African countries

and was fortunate on each trip to be able to take his own photographs of

the areas, people and wildlife. Trips in the US included McNeil River in

Alaska, where he photographed the brown bears during their yearly salmon

run.

The couple then moved to Idaho for retirement, close to many of the great

National Parks: Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Targhee, etc. It is here that

Curt has developed and expanded his Wildlife Photography portfolio, as

well as images of the amazing landscapes of the West.