Luke Parsons was born in northern Arizona and moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico at the age of 9. He began taking film-based photography classes in seventh grade and started shooting landscape photographs while on trips through his high school’s outdoor program. As he attended more geology and photography classes in college, he continued to develop an interest in photographing geology-related subject matter. Luke now teaches in the Boston area and spends his free time traveling and backpacking in the western United States and Latin America.