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LITA RAWDIN SINGER is a professor, psychologist, author, musician and a fine art photographer whose work has been exhibited, published and collected by art lovers. Her images are mystical, powerful, moving and intelligent and evoke powerful emotions within the viewer. Born in New York, she now lives in Southern California and has traveled extensively throughout the world, leading professional and academic exchanges in China, Tibet, Nepal, Africa, Russia, South America, Turkey, India, Indonesia, Bali, Thailand, Singapore, and throughout Europe. Her first career started on Wall Street as a stockbroker in the 50's, as one of the first women on Wall Street. She attended college and majored in Art and Music and has her Bachelor of Arts degree. She received her Masters and Doctorate in Psychology, and became a psychologist, and is in private practice. She is a tenured professor and has been teaching in a graduate school for the past 25 years. Art and music have always been the organizing principle of her life taking the form of, oil painting, ceramics, piano playing, and rug making. Photography became her passion in the early 80's as she started to travel the world. The Mamiya 645 Pro TL Meduim Format is her camera of choice. She has her own darkroom and began taking classes and educated herself in the technical aspects of photography from the many master classes with Michael Kenna, Ruth Bernhard, John Sexton, Bruce Barnbaum, Cole Weston and David Bayles. As a result of the observations in her clinical practice and the many women's groups that she has been involved in over the years, "A Woman's Journey Within...", retreat was created as an opportunity for a group of women to gather together and deepen their creative explorations. These retreats for women have been met with very positive feedback and much excitement. What sets them apart from other retreats is the focus of self as subject, self as exploration and self as expression. The exercises done prior to the retreat, the sharing, exercises done during the retreat, the photography, book art, journaling, meditation, and movement, facilitate one through this journey of self-discovery and creativity to self-expression. It takes courage to create, if you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being , you will have betrayed yourself. A chief characteristic of this courage is that it requires one to be centered within one's own being. That is why we must use our commitment in the center of our own being or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic. Check out the magazine, Petersen's PHOTOgraphic, October 2000 issue "The Doctor is in...the Darkroom"
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