About

Marydorsey Wanless is a fine art photographer and educator living in Topeka, Kansas. She is an Associate Professor Emerita of Photography in the Washburn University Art Department in Topeka, KS, where she taught black/white darkroom photography, alternative processes, and advanced digital photography for 16 years.
She received a Bachelors of Science in Art Education with teaching certification in 1971, and a Masters of Arts in Interior Design in 1972, both from University of Missouri at Columbia. She completed a Masters of Fine Arts in Photography from Kansas State University in 2009.
Her work incorporates personal experiences combined with alternative photographic processes. She has exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally; and has received many awards, including the grand prize in the SoHo Gallery’s alternative photography show, The Krappy Kamera Exhibit 2009. Her work has been published in numerous magazines and photographic text books.