About SandpointPhoto.com

Marie-Dominique Verdier was born, raised, and educated in France, where she graduated with an MBA in 1989. At that time she moved to the United States, where she bought her first camera and started taking black and white pictures of local musicians in her adopted home, New Orleans. During the following years she worked in the music business and at the French Consulate, while developing her “eye,” learning about photography intuitively, and exploiting the opportunity to observe some of the most visually distinctive urban imagery in the country. Her series New Orleans Walls, the original version of which appeared in 1994, was her first exploration of color.

After moving to a small North Idaho town with her family in 2000, Verdier decided to devote herself primarily to photography. Both professionally and personally, she allowed her passion to guide her efforts, using its expressive potential to serve as a conduit for all of her experiences — from the most grueling to the most transcendent. Verdier has been published in regional and national magazines in France and the U.S., has released three books of her own, runs an art/photography gallery, First Light Gallerie & Studio in Sandpoint, ID, and continues to pursue her photographic arts. She and her husband reside in North Idaho with their two daughters.