Heather C. Markham-Creasman, is an engineer, assistive technology professional, educator, ADA architectural barriers specialist, golfer, competitive ParaSurfer, public speaker, and award-winning international photographer. With her background in Electronic Warfare and Assistive Technologies, she has honed her skills and an eye for otherwise unseen details. She specializes in seeing what others rush right past, and her power wheelchair provides a steady surface from which to photograph it. She doesn’t let anything stop her from pursuing her interests, despite being diagnosed with a progressive neuromuscular disorder in 2002. Heather believes in a world where businesses make accessibility and compliance to Americans with Disabilities Act Standards a priority. Her personal mission is to show 1 businesses how to make their physical spaces and websites warm, welcoming, and accessible to the more than 1 billion persons with a disability. She expresses herself creatively through her memoir Rough Waters: From Surviving to Thriving with a Progressive Muscular Dystrophy and fine art photography. She resides with her husband, a deaf but super-snuggly part Maine Coon cat, and a deaf but happy little old dog near Cottonwood, Arizona.
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Workshop: WTF? (What’s The Focus?) Photographing the Unseen with a Progressive Disease
