Laura Pickett Calfee is principally a self-taught photographer. She holds a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and has studied photography through workshops and community school programs since 1987. An award-winning photographer, she has won recognition in many prestigious juried competitions throughout the country since 1993. Her current project – photographing homes which have been in the same families for generations – has been awarded honorable mentions from the Santa Fe Workshops Project Competition in 1998 and 1999. Her work is held by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Photography Collection, the Samuel Dorsky Museum and various private collections. It has been published in the Newsletter for the Photographic Artist, The Photo Review, Heritage, Best of Photography Annual 1992 and 1994, and numerous catalogs. She is listed in Who’s Who in American Women.

Ms. Calfee is the co-author of Chicken Tawk, a dance/theater work that was presented at DIA Center for the Arts in New York in 1991. As part of a long-term, collaborative project to catalog, restore and exhibit 100 years of family photographs of Liberty, Texas, she received a grant from the Texas Historical Commission in 1992.

Ms. Calfee lives in Driftwood, Texas, with her husband, Gary. She is Assistant Vice Chancellor for Governmental Relations for the University of Houston System and the Executive Producer of Capitol Report, a weekly public affairs program produced by KUHT-TV and aired statewide.