Megan Snook was born on the plains of southwestern Kansas. She received her first camera on her fifth birthday, and has been making photographs ever since. Raised in a military family, she traveled extensively during her youth. Having lived all over America and Africa, Megan became inspired to document the complexities of the human experience at an early age. As a result, she began her documentary photography career at the age of seventeen. Megan studied journalism and anthropology at Indiana University. She currently operates wet plate collodion photography studios in both Bloomington, Indiana, and Evergreen, Colorado.
