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Bio
Born in 1978, in Baltimore MD to a Puerto Rican father and Polish, English, Irish, German mother,
Alba Hollister-Ruiz grew up with one bare foot in the food co-op her parents ran and the other in E.B.L.O the non-profit organization for low-income hispanic families that her father started in 1980. Despite the passion she shared with her parents, she decided with their full support, that she would try to make a living as an artist.......gasp. A graduate of Baltimore School for the Arts and Maryland Institute College of Art, Alba followed her passion to New York to work as an art director for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia where she would remain for 7 years. After being laid off from her corporate job she decided to follow her dream to travel the world. Not knowing anyone else with as much time on their hands as she had, she went much of it alone. Always having a passion for photography she set off with a backpack and her camera. Alba traveled to Thailand, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, India, Nepal, Mt Everest Base Camp, and Tibet capturing life around her. Alba is currently a freelance designer/photographer who divides her time between New York and Vieques, PR.
Alba Hollister-Ruiz grew up with one bare foot in the food co-op her parents ran and the other in E.B.L.O the non-profit organization for low-income hispanic families that her father started in 1980. Despite the passion she shared with her parents, she decided with their full support, that she would try to make a living as an artist.......gasp. A graduate of Baltimore School for the Arts and Maryland Institute College of Art, Alba followed her passion to New York to work as an art director for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia where she would remain for 7 years. After being laid off from her corporate job she decided to follow her dream to travel the world. Not knowing anyone else with as much time on their hands as she had, she went much of it alone. Always having a passion for photography she set off with a backpack and her camera. Alba traveled to Thailand, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, India, Nepal, Mt Everest Base Camp, and Tibet capturing life around her. Alba is currently a freelance designer/photographer who divides her time between New York and Vieques, PR.