Lynne Warberg

Lynne Warberg is an American photographer and writer focusing on culture, spiritualism, religion, social issues, and mental health.

Lynne received numerous Polaroid scholarships to study photography with Ansel
Adams, Ruth Bernard, Mary Ellen Mark and Duane Michals. Lynne is a New York
Foundation of the Arts Fellow, Discipline, Photography and an Arizona Commission on
the Arts grant recipient for "Possession: Haiti's Vodou culture ". Her work has been
collected by numerous institutions and private collectors.

Lynne produced documentaries and a feature film with Academy Award nominee,
Sparky Greene, and worked in the film industry as a still and "special" photographer for
almost two decades. Her film credits can be found on IMBD.com/keyword/Lynne
Warberg.

Lynne continues to work in the style of photographic New Journalism writing and
shooting editorial projects.

Long term photo projects include the social documentary, “Para Los Ninos”, depicting
“latch key” children of illegal aliens residing in run-down hotel rooms in downtown Los
Angeles's Skid Row.
"Reaganomics: The Homeless of Venice Beach, CA", a series of B/W portraits and
quotes from the mentally disabled homeless population forced into the streets after the
closure of mental health facilities during the early 1980s.
“Possession: Haiti’s Vodou Culture” developed into a long term personal assignment to
embrace Haitian culture after first visiting Haiti with Wes Craven's film crew making "The
Serpent and the Rainbow" the year Baby Doc fled the country.
"My Brain is on Fire", the photographer, now a Mother, navigates an ongoing journey of
27 years to find a diagnosis and treatment for her son suffering from rapid cycling mood
disturbances since early childhood.
"Blond Voodoo", a mixed/media collage/graphic novel revealing a uniquely personal and human perspective of the author's sole journeys.The photographer intuitively finds her way in a tortured but magical place. Haiti allows time to heal, to reflect and turn her aching heart into art.