Gerry's father gave her microscope when she was six years old. She remembers looking through the lens at the life forms in a drop of pond water and thinking that she would never again see anything as beautiful. Many years later, with degrees in biology and studio arts, she began to photograph the things she loved, including children and close up work of the natural and man made environment. Gerry works in a 35 mm format using available light, and shoots exclusively in black and white. Her work graces the walls of homes throughout California, Montana, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Illinois, and the British Virgin Islands.

In her words: “The camera and the people and other things of beauty I photograph offer me a way to record fleeting moments, life forms and images that represent the tenuous magical bonds that exist between all of us and the world we inhabit.

David Whyte in his poem 'What to Remember When Waking' says:

To become human
is to become visible
while carrying
what is hidden
as a gift to others.

Perhaps that is what I am trying, in my own way, to do. As such, it is my pleasure to share my work with you.”