A graduate of Coronado High School, SDSU, and UCLA, Priscilla holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Her twenty-six-year career as a federal historian in the Washington, D.C., area included tenure as the first chief historian of the Department of Homeland Security and several positions with the Air Force history program, including director of histories and studies, Air Force Historical Studies Office.
Water is essential to life on Earth. Its unique characteristics make it an endlessly compelling photographic subject. Its nature is ever-changing—always beautiful but often dangerous, sometimes tranquil but eternally unpredictable, immensely powerful but tragically fragile.
My images capture a fleeting moment in time, a brief second of existence, an impermanent shape, a changing pattern, a chance combination, a perishable form that no longer exists and can never be reconstructed. They are a reminder of the imperative to respect, protect, and preserve our oceans and seas, lakes and streams, in the face of marine degradation across the globe.
