Edie Freedman is a designer, photographer, writer, editor, and artist living in West Gloucester, Massachusetts. She has been making images since high school, and has gone from shooting Tri-X and Recording Film to non-silver processes and printmaking to color printing and now, digital photography and printing.

Edie studied photography, printmaking, and film at Harvard College, and went on to earn two Masters' degrees in Fine Art Photography and Communication Design at Rochester Institute of Technology. She spent a few years teaching photography and design at RIT and Penn State University, and then left academia for the corporate world.

For the past 16 years, Edie has worked at O'Reilly Media, a publishing company specializing in bringing the work of innovators in computer technologies and digital media to a wider audience. As the Creative Director at O'Reilly, Edie created one of the most successful brands in the computer publishing industry. In 2004, Edie left her position as Creative Director, took five months off, and returned to O'Reilly as an editor of books on digital photography, Photoshop, and graphic design topics. She recently edited, designed, and produced Adobe Evangelist Julieanne Kost's Window Seat: The Art of Digital Photography and Creative Thinking (O'Reilly Media, 2006).

Edie is currently shooting photographs, writing, and designing her own book about the turning of the seasons along the New England coast.