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 Walker Pickering was born in 1980 in Odessa, Texas. He studied photography at Texas State University in San Marcos before moving to Austin to work at the Texas House of Representatives as a photographer. As darkroom printer for Austin photographer and screenwriter, Bill Wittliff, he produced prints for the 2007 University of Texas Press book, A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove. In 2006 Walker relocated to Atlanta, Georgia for graduate school at Savannah College of Art & Design-Atlanta, where he earned his MFA in photography in 2008.
Professionally, Walker participates in a group known as PhotoAwesome, a collective located in Atlanta. As part of the group, Walker produces both video and audio podcasts dealing with not only the local contemporary art scene in Atlanta, but the larger art world as well.
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