Walt Bistline
Photography

Landscape photographer Walt Bistline was born and raised in central Florida.  He attended Emory University in Atlanta on a National Merit Scholarship, where he received a BA in English in 1972 (and, more importantly, met and married classmate Rabun Huff).  Walt received a law degree from Boston University in 1975, and began a legal career on Wall Street.  Later, he joined a large firm in Dallas, and ultimately completed his 25 years of corporate law practice in Houston, where he was twice voted a "Texas Super Lawyer" in a statewide bar polls.

In 2001, at the age of 50, Walt changed careers, entering the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Houston.  When he graduated in 2004, he joined the faculty at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, where he is Artist in Residence.

Walt’s photos are included in the collections of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Indiana University East, Ivy Tech Community College, the Richmond Art Museum, Reid Hospital and over 150 private and corporate collections.  Since moving to Indiana, his photographs have won numerous awards in juried competitions at the Richmond Art Museum, the Whitewater Valley Exhibition, the Swope Museum in Terre Haute, The Art Museum of Greater Lafayette and the Minnetrista Cultural Center in Muncie.  During the same period, his work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Pendleton Art Center in Cincinnati, Gallery 308 in Muncie, Fleury Gallery in Houston and Earlham College.  In 2006, Indiana University East staged a 10-year retrospective of his photography.