Background
Deborah Frances Baker was born in 1954 in Honiton, Devon, England, United Kingdom.
Deborah Frances Baker was born in 1954 in Honiton, Devon, England, United Kingdom.
Baker received a diploma in 1977 from Trent Polytechnic in Nottingham, England. She also attended the Maryland Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1976.
As of this date Baker is a lecturer at the City of London Polytechnic. In 1980 she was a fellow in photography at Sheffield City Polytechnic. In 1979 she was the director of the Photographic Gallery in Cardiff, Wales, and worked as a lecturer at West Nottingham College in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire in 1978. She also worked as an assistant to both Paul Hill of The Photographer's Place in Bradboume, Derbyshire (1978), and to Ralph Gibson in New York (1977-78).
The photographer defines her work as being “concerned with photography in its purest sense, translating the three-dimensional reality to a two-dimensional image."