June Jacobsen has been creating canvas wall portraits since the early 1980's. She won the honor of Top Portrait Photographer for four consecutive years in the Professional Photographers of Greater New York. Her images and articles on portraiture have been published worldwide and she teaches 'Classic Portraiture and Lighting in a Digital World'. Working towards the Master of Photography Degree, June earned numerous national awards for portrait and landscape images. A fascination with polar regions has taken June to the ends of the earth, but she visits her homeland, Norway, most often. She lives and works on Long Island and travels for portrait work as well as for leisure and photography.