I picked up my first camera, a Kodak Brownie, in 6th grade when I was eleven. I used my camera to explore and record my techno adventures. In the years since, I haven’t stopped. I continue to explore, record, discover and share images of the world
as I see it. 

I bring photography into whatever technical discipline I do even when on orbit. Photography has always found a way to be a part of my life.

Frontiers are all around us. There are frontiers under the stage of a microscope, through the eyepiece of a telescope, in the stratosphere, and at the bottom of the ocean. My frontier is space.

As an explorer, you are obligated to describe your experiences and discoveries to those who
didn’t have the opportunity to go along. Space
is no different. 

On Space Station, we had a variety of still and video cameras, and we were encouraged to take as many pictures as we could. Photographs are central to sharing our stories with everybody on our planet. 

Portraits of a Planet: Photographer in Space features 40 of my photographs selected from more than half a million taken on my 3 spaceflights. This exhibition also features 3 mural-scaled images giving the sense of wonder that I experienced while on orbit.