004 Cissy and David Spindler: Inspired & Inspiring Photography (Part 1)

Fotos, Fiddles, & Felines

Cissy Spindler began photographing seriously in 1980 on the streets of San Francisco with an old Rolleiflex. Since then her life has been dedicated to photography. That evolved to medium format work focusing on intimate landscapes.
Her work was first exhibited in a San Francisco gallery, Grapestake, in 1983 in a group show featuring emerging California photographers. From 1984 through 2005 she owned and operated Spindler Photographic Services, a custom black and white lab in San Francisco. This afforded her the opportunity to meet and work with some of the finest photographers in the USA.
She now lives on the central coast of California. She teaches photography at the Academy of Art University of San Francisco in the online program.
David Spindler has been practicing and teaching photography for quite some time. He has been with the Academy since 1997. His personal work has been in numerous group shows and publications throughout the years, including Black & White magazine.
The bulk of his life in photography has been spent helping other photographers realize their vision as a second pair of hands and eyes. He owned and operated Spindler Photographic Services in San Francisco from 1984-2005. There he had the good fortune to work with many of the most creative and exciting photographers during that time, both commercial and fine art based.
He says that his biggest asset as an instructor is his ability to help other photographers and students of photography develop and pursue their own creative paths by encouraging them to continue questioning and exploring the visual medium.