Mr. Schaffer is a tall, spectacle-wearing gentleman of indeterminate ethnic heritage. He hails from Kansas City.

From 2005 to 2007 he worked in China as Peace Corps Volunteer. Signifiicant time was spent watching bootleg DVDs, going on aimless walks, and eating fruit smoothies as a subsitute for cooking a proper meal. He taught in the city of Guiyang but after a near-miss with public security, he relocated further West to the steel town of Panzhihua where mangoes were in abundance and every week the same student wore a T-shirt with the text, "My other pants are leather." This only paled in comparison to another volunteer's student named "Old Hat." Learn more about the experience here.

Most recently he managed the the youth program of the Refugee Women's Alliance in Seattle. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he considers photography to be an important part of his life as his degrees from the University of Washington and Arizona State University will attest.

After a photographic dry-spell, in 2009 he returned to the demonic beast that is photography.  He is working on a body of work about Seattle as microcosm for the United States.  It is an ever-growing, pulsating miasma of ideas that is consuming his mind in fits and starts. 

Special thanks to the photography program at the University of Washington for their ongoing support.

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Technical Information:

Mamiya 7 w/65mm, 80mm f/4 lenses - Fuji 100 Reala, Fuji 160s, Kodak 160NC
Contax G2 w/45mm f/2 lens - Fuji Superia 400
Canon S90