About Lennie Duensing 

My Photo Journey

In 1956, my parents gave me a Brownie Holiday camera for my eighth birthday, and I’ve been taking pictures ever since. During the late 60s, while still in college, I set up a darkroom in my New York City apartment and worked as a portrait and dance photographer. After graduation, I was employed as the full-time photographer for a New Jersey community college, and during the 70s and early 80s, I worked as a photojournalist, primarily covering arts and entertainment stories for two New Jersey newspapers.

In the years that followed, while working as the education program manager and producer at New York City’s PBS station, directing two art museums and a national medical organization, I continued documenting my personal journey through photographs. A few years ago, after retiring, I began photographing those things in life that had always given me the most pleasure: circus, musicians, and the natural world.

Today, as a full-time photographer, my goal with each photograph is to create a work of art. My aim is to reach into the internal beauty—the essence—of each of my subjects.