Heather Mull is a Pittsburgh-based freelance photographer. Since 1999, she has been staff photographer for the alternative press Pittsburgh City Paper, where she shoots news, features, portraits and food on a variety of compelling, and often funky, regional subjects. For the past three years, she has been the primary photographer for Table Magazine, a quarterly regional publication dedicated to celebrating food culture in Western Pennsylvania. Her freelance clients include: Carnegie Mellon University, UPMC, The H. John Heinz Regional History Center, BodyMedia, R.K. Mellon Foundation, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Zany Umbrella Circus, Quantum Theater, and lots of great, private clients. Her work has been published in numerous regional, national and international magazines and books. She has aspirations of worldliness and financial success, but still "will work for food." Literally. (Just ask any local chef and they'll vouch for having fed her.) She has a B.A. in English Literature with a minor in French from Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, and studied photography through Pittsburgh Filmmakers. She served on the board of directors of the Silver Eye Center for Photography, where many years ago -- at the beginning of her career -- she once worked as a part-time receptionist. Her photographic mentors are McKeesport-born Duane Michals, Henry Horenstein, David Graham and Arnold Newman. Andrew Wyeth is the favored painter at the moment. Heather currently has a photo in the exhibition "Digital To Daguerrotype: Photographs of People" at the Carnegie Museum of Art, on display through January 31, 2010. She lives in Hazelwood with her dog Monongahela Mabel and cats, Enid and Mr. Peanut. www.heathermullphoto.com