The fine-art photographs of Lorran Meares have been selected for numerous exhibitions across the country, including the Art Institute of Chicago; MIT Creative Photography Gallery; Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York; Memphis Academy of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art and Shwayder Art Gallery, Denver. Published widely in photographic textbooks and journals as well as in popular magazines and calendars, Meares’ images have been added to the collections of the Witkin Gallery, New York; Polaroid Corporation; Toyota Motors USA; and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History, New York. Meares has created photographs for — among others — the American Museum of Natural History, the National Park Service and the Sierra Club. For over two decades, he has been pushing the boundaries of light-painting photography to create mythical, mystical and often archetypal images. Developing fresh approaches to these techniques earned him international recognition and inclusion in the Macmillan Biographical Encyclopedia of Photographic Artists and Innovators. Teacher, lecturer, workshop presenter, and a frequent recipient of fellowships, grants and awards, Meares is an outspoken advocate for the environment and for the protection of Native American cultural heritage and sacred sites. For the past decade, he has worked in cooperation with the Department of the Interior, state parks, the Bureau of Land Management, the Sierra Club and tribal groups on special projects documenting endangered sites. In 1993 the Sierra Club and its publisher, Random House, commissioned Meares to create light-painted images for the entire Special Edition Calendar, Sacred Places: Native American Sites.  Nationally published articles and his appearance on NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw underscore Meares’ commitment to create fine-art photographs that speak for the need to protect Sacred Places. He and his wife, Charlotte, are working on a book exploring this subject.