Charlee Brodsky, a fine art/documentary photographer and emeritus professor of photography at Carnegie Mellon University, describes her work as dealing with social issues and beauty. A selection of her awards includes the Tillie Olsen Award with writer Jim Daniels for their book, Street; an Emmy with the film team that created the documentary, Stephanie, which is based on her friend’s life with breast cancer; two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowships; an Honored Educator award given by the Society for Photographic Education, Mid-Atlantic Region. Among the books she’s authored are Knowing Stephanie and I Thought I Could Fly. Ms. Brodsky’s most recent work, The Audacity of the Mundane, is a series of still lifes and was exhibited at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in 2021 and in 2024 it was exhibited at The Pittsburgh Botanic Garden, Sunnyhill Unitarian/ Universalist Church in Mt. Lebanon, PA, and BE Galleries in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh. In 2025 the work will be exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art. You can see more of the Still Life series at charleebrodskyphotography.com. BE Galleries handles her work.