About
Rick Albertson is a retired freelance documentary photographer and video producer. During the latter half of his career Rick photographed assignments in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Central and North America for major non-profit organizations. While traveling regularly overseas Rick served as a board member of Child Hope International, a small ministry serving abandoned children in Nepal and as a member of the management team of the Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Collaboration working with high school students in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. His promotional videos helped raise awareness to these issues and to grow both organizations.
Rick earned a BS in Radio and Television Production and a MS in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University. Prior to working as a photographer Rick was a small business owner and communications consultant and served as an adjunct professor in the Design, Art and Architecture
largest creative project of his life. He spent 18-months creating the home’s design, built around his collection of mid-century modern furniture and his many interests, drawing plans, and securing permits. The house was constructed in a unique way utilizing premium structural insulated panels (SIPS) with the help of a retired custom home contractor in 2014. Rick described this experience as “a monumental effort in pre-visualization over an 18-month period in which he’d go to bed and stare at the ceiling designing one small section of the house each night and then draw up plans the next day. The result is a spectacular, modern, very “green” residence unique to Southern California’s Inland Empire.
Rick relishes time away spent in retreat each spring and fall in his 1880s historic log cabin in Southern Indiana, where he reads, writes, ponders, photographs, pursues field recording, occasionally speaks, and plays bluegrass music.
Program at the University of Cincinnati.
Since retiring Rick has pursued creative personal projects and published several books including: Documentary Portraits—a coffee table book retrospective of favorite photos from assignments around the world; Baja Portraits—a collection of street photography in Mexico; There and Back—a book of portraits and stories collected during a cross-country motorcycle trip; Lost to Lewy: Nancy’s Nine Years—the day by day story of his wife’s progressive loss to Lewy Body Dementia; Brown County Folks: A Mingling of Rustics and Artists—profiling 35 or so residents in and around the tourist town of Nashville, Indiana.
In 2012, Rick relocated to the mountain village of Wrightwood, California, and designed his dream home, a modern house with a magnificent view over-looking the Swarthout Valley in the Angeles National Forest of the San
Gabriel Mountains, 75-miles northeast
of Los Angeles. Doing so was BY FAR the