Mr. Schaffer is a tall, spectacle-wearing gentleman of indeterminate ethnic heritage. He hails from Kansas City.

From 2005 to 2007 he gave an itty-bitty portion of his life to the Chinese people as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Signifiicant time was spent watching bootleg DVDs, going on aimless walks, and eating fruit smoothies as a subsitute for cooking a proper meal. For a while he worked in the Western city of Guiyang but after a near-miss with public security, he relocated further West to the steel town of Panzhihua where mangoes were in abundance and every week the same student wore a T-shirt with text that read, "My other pants are leather." This only paled in comparison to another volunteer's student named "Old Hat."

He can currently be found working as a lead teacher in the youth program of the Refugee Women's Alliance in Seattle. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he considers photography to be an important part of his life as his degrees from the University of Washington and Arizona State University will attest.

Special thanks to the photography program at the University of Washington for their ongiong support.

Technical Information:

Mamiya 7 w/65mm f/4 lens - Fuji 100 Reala and Kodak 160NC film
Contax G2 w/45mm f/2, 35mm f/2 lenses - Fuji Superia 400 film