McNeil, Larry | Sealaska Heritage Institute Archives

Larry McNeil, of Tlingit Native American Indian descent, was born in Southeast Alaska and grew up in Juneau and Anchorage. He graduated in 1978 from Brooks Institute, Santa Barbara, California with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Professional Photography and received his Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the University of New Mexico Albuquerque. As of 2009 he was an Associate Professor of Photography at Boise State University, Boise, Idaho teaching both film and digital-based photography. Over the past years, he has exhibited portions of his ‘fly by night’ project at venues including the International Center of Photography in New York City, the San Diego Museum of Art and The Barbican Gallery in London.

Source: Online biography from BSU, Nov. 2007.