James Barbee, M.D., has been an avid photographer since the age of twenty-one. A psychiatrist by training, he became Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Neuroscience before entering private practice in 2009 and is currently Professor of Pharmacology and Neuroscience at the LSU Behavioral Science Center in New Orleans, where he was named the George C. Dunn Professor of Psychiatry in 2001. Barbee has lived in Miami, St. Louis, and San Diego before finally settling in New Orleans, and he credits the lessons learned from each of the places he has lived, as well as the experiences in his personal life and work with patients over many years, as being powerful formative influences upon him and a source of boundless inspiration for his creative work. His photographs have been displayed in juried exhibitions, and his previously published book is Sin Sombras/Without Shadows: A Search for the Meaning of life if There is one, in the California Desert in Photographs and Stories (George F. Thompson Publishing, 2018).