Zoe Nauman was born in LA. and raised in New Mexico, surrounded by artists and the art world. As a teenager, she gave up the 110 instamatic and disc cameras for her dad’s old Miranda Sensorex II 35 mm. In 1991, she moved to San Francisco to attend the San Francisco Art Institute. While occasionally pursuing other endeavors, she has managed to keep the camera at her side, shooting mostly with a Pentax K1000. She currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.