Diane Walker is a contemplative photographer with an extensive background in journalism, religion and marketing. She has served as the Communications Director for the Episcopal Diocese of Western Washington and on the faculty of the Diocesan School of Theology, and is currently the volunteer exhibitions director of ECVA, a national artists registry with online exhibition space.
Walker has been photographing professionally for almost 20 years; her photographs have appeared on book covers, in newspapers and magazines and have been used for advertising and promotion and real estate sales. She displays and sells her photographs through numerous local galleries, offices, medical centers and restaurants; she has also designed and sold calendars and notecards.
Walker has participated in juried exhibitions at The Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado, the Minneapolis Photo Center, the Vermont PhotoPlace Gallery, the Bainbridge Arts and Crafts Gallery and the Collective Visions Gallery in Bremerton, Washington as well as in the Edmonds Art Festival, the Puyallup Fair, several galleries in the San Juan Islands and the San Juan County Fair. Her work has been published multiple times in Shutterbug Magazine, The Bainbridge Islander (including numerous covers), The Kitsap Sun, and Exhibition Magazine, and has also appeared on the cover of the Bainbridge Island phonebook.
Walker creates two daily blogs of photographs and meditations (contemplativepoetry.com and contemplativephotography.com) as well as an ongoing collaboration with Lynn Bauman, developing contemplative icons in response to Lynn's translations of the Psalms and other sacred poetry. She is the author of three books of photographic meditations: Illuminating the Mystery: Photographic Reflections on the Gospel of Thomas; From Loss to Love; and A Contemplative Photographer’s Alphabet, the last of which began as a traveling exhibit and has been displayed in a variety of locations across the US. She also provided the photographic illustrations for a new book, just released by Morehouse Publications, entitled Strength for the Journey: A Guide to Spiritual Practice, by Renee Miller, and has lectured on Contemplative Photography as a Spiritual Practice at Seattle University’s Pacific Northwest Spirituality Book Festival. To watch that slide presentation, click the video link at the top of this page.
Walker has been photographing professionally for almost 20 years; her photographs have appeared on book covers, in newspapers and magazines and have been used for advertising and promotion and real estate sales. She displays and sells her photographs through numerous local galleries, offices, medical centers and restaurants; she has also designed and sold calendars and notecards.
Walker has participated in juried exhibitions at The Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado, the Minneapolis Photo Center, the Vermont PhotoPlace Gallery, the Bainbridge Arts and Crafts Gallery and the Collective Visions Gallery in Bremerton, Washington as well as in the Edmonds Art Festival, the Puyallup Fair, several galleries in the San Juan Islands and the San Juan County Fair. Her work has been published multiple times in Shutterbug Magazine, The Bainbridge Islander (including numerous covers), The Kitsap Sun, and Exhibition Magazine, and has also appeared on the cover of the Bainbridge Island phonebook.
Walker creates two daily blogs of photographs and meditations (contemplativepoetry.com and contemplativephotography.com) as well as an ongoing collaboration with Lynn Bauman, developing contemplative icons in response to Lynn's translations of the Psalms and other sacred poetry. She is the author of three books of photographic meditations: Illuminating the Mystery: Photographic Reflections on the Gospel of Thomas; From Loss to Love; and A Contemplative Photographer’s Alphabet, the last of which began as a traveling exhibit and has been displayed in a variety of locations across the US. She also provided the photographic illustrations for a new book, just released by Morehouse Publications, entitled Strength for the Journey: A Guide to Spiritual Practice, by Renee Miller, and has lectured on Contemplative Photography as a Spiritual Practice at Seattle University’s Pacific Northwest Spirituality Book Festival. To watch that slide presentation, click the video link at the top of this page.
To contact Diane, email her at contemplativephotographer@gmail.com
