Debra Baida is a photographer, visual literacy advocate, picture editor, and professional organizer based in San Francisco. Photography has been coursing through her veins since at least the ripe young age of four when she remembers sitting on a stool in her father's darkroom to watch images appear on paper floating in trays of liquid.

Her photographs have been exhibited nationally and published in The Adirondack Review, The Sun, divide: journal of literature, arts, and ideas, Steam Ticket, The Mountain Astrologer, The Noe Valley Voice, and in collaborations with Black Lawrence Press (Floating Holidays, 2007) and Tuber Creations. Her work is featured on Chemystry Set's CD, "Cobblestone Below My Feet."

Over the years, Deb has worked with photojournalist Ed Kashi, The New York Times Magazine, The Industry Standard, Natural History Magazine, Mother Jones, the International Center of Photography, the Labor Archives and Research Center, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, and the library of Mary Ellen Mark, among others. She is a volunteer with First Exposures, a photographic mentoring program sponsored by SF Camerawork.

Deb loves how marveling at the small things in life can make them bigger while making the bigger things smaller. Elephants are one exception. They are always big, and she always marvels at them.