About

Shari

Growing up in Flo­renceville, New Brunswick, the daugh­ter of a nurse and a high school teacher, Shari (Chapman) Tucker never dreamed she would someday own her own busi­ness. Ten years after pho­tograph­ing her first wedding she’s still going strong.

Shari grad­u­ated with honours from Nova Scotia Com­mu­nity College for Pho­tog­ra­phy and Digital Imaging in 2005, two years after that first wedding. She was known for wedding and por­trait pho­tog­ra­phy in those early days, but now focuses on business-to-business pho­tog­ra­phy, specif­i­cally cap­tur­ing the story of a busi­ness by pho­tograph­ing the skills and talents of their workforce.

In 2008 Shari embarked on a per­sonal journey cre­at­ing a project of art from the heart called Young & Fear­less. By June 2010 she had hosted three suc­cess­ful social aware­ness art shows and pub­lished her first pho­tog­ra­phy book called Young & Fear­less – Inspi­ra­tion of Cancer Sur­vivors. The book is a com­pi­la­tion of beau­ti­ful pho­tographs and stories of 30 cancer sur­vivors who are all 30 years and younger.

Shari’s pho­tog­ra­phy is also fea­tured in Photosensitive’s TIEd Together and Fuel of Life exhibits and books. In 2009–2010 10 of Shari’s photos trav­elled the country as part of the Cancer Con­nec­tions national trav­el­ing exhibit and were also included in the Cancer Con­nec­tions book in 2011.

Several of Shari’s life-defining moments are the direct result of travel. In Decem­ber 1997, on her flight home from Grand Prairie, Alberta, her plane crashed near the airport in Fred­er­ic­ton, NB. At 19 years old, having sur­vived a plane crash, life began to look a little different.

After several years of staying close to home, in 2006 Shari drove to Boston to take a cruise to Bermuda. The travel bug took hold and Shari began to think about the cul­tures, food, beauty and the stories of people from other coun­tries that she had been missing out on. In 2008, 11 years after her plane crash, she con­fronted her fear of flying with a nice, short flight to Bermuda.

Shari now has a new passion for travel. Since 2007 she has been to many coun­tries includ­ing: St. Pierre & Miquelon (France), Varadero (Cuba), Mayan Riveria (Mexico), Berlin (Germany), Poland, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ecuador & the Gala­pa­gos Islands, Peru, Domini­can Repub­lic and New Orleans (USA).

With a passion for pho­tog­ra­phy, travel and people’s stories, Shari is now leading unfor­get­table photo tour expe­ri­ences for amateur pho­tog­ra­phers. The first one was a great success in early 2012. Peru Through the Lens brought together nine photo enthu­si­asts who spent 12 days trav­el­ing Peru, having unfor­get­table expe­ri­ences and prac­tic­ing many new photo skills.

Shari is cur­rently based in Halifax, Nova Scotia–until her next adventure.