Full-time freelance photo and videographer Jeff Ferguson was born in Pullman WA, raised in Spokane, WA where he currently resides. He has lived, worked and traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad. He is a Spokane Tribal member who holds an A.A.S. in Photography from Spokane Falls Community College, B.A. in Communications from Whitworth University and an M.B.A. from Gonzaga University. He finds much of his inspiration from both the urban and rural areas of the Inland Northwest and his Native heritage. He also finds inspiration from great photographers such as Gordon Parks, Edward Curtis, Lewis Hine, Richard Avedon, Mary Ellen Mark, Ansel Adams and Joel Grimes. Although most of his work is commercial, editorial, portraiture and sports photography, his true passions lie in documentary video, nature and landscape photography and cultural preservation.