Marky'S Animal Alphabet Book

• Prize
  Silver in Book/Nature
• Photographer
  Marky Kauffmann
• Technical Info
  Digital Photographs
• Photo Date
  2023

There are very few children’s books illustrated with photographs. Why? Perhaps it is because fiction or “made up stories” demand fanciful, images to help young people’s imaginations flourish. But when a book is about real things, like animals, why not use photographs? In recent years, I have traveled to Kenya’s Masai Mara and Canada’s Cape Breton Island. In those extraordinary places, I have photographed the wildlife. When my granddaughter turned two years old, I decided to make a book for her using some of my animal images. Thus "Marky's Animal Alphabet" came to life!

Marky Kauffmann is a graduate of Boston University and the New England School of Photography. She has been working as a fine-art photographer and educator for thirty years. Kauffmann taught photography at the secondary level at independent and public schools. She spent two decades teaching photography to adults in the New England School of Photography’s Evening Program. Kauffmann has curated photography exhibits including Outspoken: Seven Women Photographers, which traveled throughout New England from 2014-2020. Kauffmann has served on the Board of Directors of Griffin Museum of Photography