Born in Los Angeles, I studied photography from age

15, continuing through college at the University of Denver,

the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the Art Center

College of Design in Pasadena, California, where I received my BFA in 1984. I've worked from studios in Hollywood and New York, and I currently live and work in Malibu, California. My work has been shown in art galleries, on album covers, and in the fashion and entertainment worlds.

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I care deeply for the environment both inside and outside

ourselves. I donate my time and a percentage of the proceeds from my book, Beauty Before Me, toward peaceful people and a peaceful, sustainable planet. I have also been involved in the natural healing arts for many years.

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My influences range from Georgia O'Keefe, Cy Twombly, Tina Modotti, Paolo Roversi, and Annie Leibovitz—to Neil Young, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bill Evans, and Miles Davis. "Her series of flowers, waves, skies, and trees, as well as her portraits, including the coming of age portrait series of Danielle, each reveal a poetic journey and lessons in romantic soulfulness. Deborah embraces the true essence of nature as her muse, in her life as an artist and as a mother of two." 

To attain the beautiful prints, I work with the Fresson family, in Paris, who create gorgeous hand-made prints on cotton paper using a process begun in 1899.  Each layer of color—cyan, magenta, yellow, black, brown, etc—is exposed separately to the paper, which is coated with a mixture of light-sensitive gelatin, pigment, and bichromate compound. The non-exposed part of the print is removed with a mixture of sawdust and water. The entire process is chemical-free. It produces subtle pointillist tonalities in color that last forever.

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I also work with printers in New York and Los Angeles using digital pigment printing and traditional printing processes.

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Be brave, be fierce, be true, and be free.