Rick Albertson is a retired freelance documentary photographer and video producer. During the latter half of his career Rick photographed assignments in Asia, Africa, and Central and North America for large non-profit organizations. He earned a BS in Radio and Television Production and a MS in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University. Prior to working as a photographer, Rick was a small business owner and communications consultant and for a short time served as an adjunct professor in the Design Art and Architecture Program at the University of Cincinnati.

While traveling regularly overseas Rick served as a board member of Child Hope International, a small ministry serving abandoned children in Nepal. In recent years he also served as a member of the management team of the Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Collaboration, working with high school students in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. His promotional videos helped raise awareness of these organizations.

Since retiring Rick has pursued creative personal projects including recent street photography in Baja California Sur,Mexico, and a solo motorcycle trip across America documented in his book, There and Back: portraits and stories along the way. His hardback coffee table book, Documentary Portraits: Retrospective highlights 50 photos from his work overseas and the story behind each image. More recently he has released several other books including: A Sign, Alone, Baja Portraits, Branches, Brown County Folks, Captured Motion, Circles of Confusion, Classic Cars, Eerie, I’m Still Here, Panoramic, Pueblo Mágica, Raw Verbosity, Square: Obversational Prose, Stoveside Surveys, Subject Matters, and Twins. After the death of Rick’s wife of 43 years, he wrote Lost to Lewy: Nancy’s Nine Years, an intimate account of Nancy’s struggle with Lewy Body Dementia (available on Amazon).

Rick and Nancy bought a cabin in Wrightwood in 2008, while living in Colorado, and later moved here full-time to be close to family and grandchildren. They then built a modern home that Rick designed, with a magnificent view overlooking the Swarthout Valley. Rick relishes time away spent in retreat each spring and fall at his 1880s historic cabin in Nashville, Indiana, where he reads, writes, photographs, plays bluegrass music, and ponders the magical land of wonder that is Brown County.