"Living the City, Madrid 2004"

Photographs by award winning Rochester, NY, photographer, Monika Ueffinger, are on display in the Edward G. Miner Library, University of Rochester Medical Center, from June 5 through August 31.

Monika’s freelance fine art photography has been shown in several group and individual exhibitions in Rochester. Twice she has won first prize in the Kodak Spring Salon. Two of Monika’s pictures were published in "Best of Photography Annual 2001" and "….2002".

Monika moved from Germany to the USA in 2000, with her husband, a veteran Kodak employee. She has been taking classes at RIT and the Genesee Center for Arts and Education Community Darkroom continuously since discovering photography for herself on a hiking tour of the Canyonlands. In addition, she has traveled across Canada, gone on a backpacking tour in Wyoming, paddled through the everglades, visited Scotland, and discovered parts of Hawaii. In between, she spent time with her family in California, Maine, Cape Cod, and Germany. Her favorite subject is nature - not only the "big" picture but the details…texture, geometry, patterns and abstraction.

She went to Madrid in September 2004. “For the first time, I also pointed my lens on people,” said Ueffinger. “I felt that they really live in symbiosis with their city. The images are about the people who are really there – in this giant, beautiful, loud, dusty and very alive city.”

Monika received her B.S. in Pediatric Nursing in Germany in 1972. Since 2000, she has served countless hours as a volunteer photography instructor at the Community Darkroom, implementing and teaching youth programs for Corpus Christi School, James Madison School of Excellence Photo Club, and Right-on School.

Contact the artist at: ueffinger@frontiernet.net