Mary Dowdle

Mary Dowdle grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. She learned photography from her mother, who chronicled her father’s professional baseball career. Mary studied English literature and photography at Indiana University. In 1995 she moved to NYC and worked with of some of the top advertising/fashion photographers at Stockland Martel. She has spent the last twelve years as a freelance photographer specializing in photographing children, and she collaborated with author Lise Friedman on Break a Leg! The Kids’ Guide to Acting and Stagecraft (a Children’s Book-of-the-Month Club selection), as well as the book Becoming a Ballerina. Mary lives in Boston with her husband and three children.