About - Cira Crowell

Santa Fe and Los Angeles based Cira Crowell, founder of InLightWorks Productions, is a fine art photographer, mountaineer, philanthropist, and executive producer whose initial film Dream Mountain won “Best Mountainfilm” at the London Mountainfilm Festival and has appeared in 14 top-tier international festivals including seven Mountainfilm Alliance festivals, in Nepal, Italy, France, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Nepal and Poland. Dream Mountain has also been chosen for the esteemed Banff Mountainfilm Festival World Tour reaching audiences in 40 countries over the next three years. Three of Cira’s Dream Mountain prints were recently purchased for the Leica Camera USA corporate collection and reside in their new corporate offices.

Cira began taking pictures 30 years ago with a Leicaflex SL2 film camera that once belonged to her grandfather. Her passion for photography and Leica has continued as she travels internationally photographing some of the world’s most engaging natural and urban landscapes. She has spent much of her career working at very high altitude, including trekking nearly 2,000 miles in Nepal and summiting four technical Himalayan peaks over 20,000 feet (6,000m+). Most recently, she summited India’s highest mountain, the otherworldly 8,586m /28,269ft Kangchenjunga, the subject of her latest body of work. Cira’s photographs have been exhibited worldwide, most recently at the Leica Gallery in Los Angeles.

Cira earned her M.A. from SCAD and enjoys teaching advanced black and white photography annually at Santa Fe Photographic Workshops. Her work has been exhibited Leica Gallery Los Angeles, the Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, California, Mountainfilm on Tour Savannah, Nepal Tourism Board and Tibet House: US, New York, among others. She has also published four books of her photographs, with Beautiful Resilience: The Enduring Spirit of Upper Gorkha Nepal, Envisioning Ecstasy, and 108 Visions: Ladakh During the Kalachakra created to raise awareness and support humanitarian projects including Nomads Clinic, Tibet House US, Little Suns and GearsForGirls. As a fine artist Cira creates new media drawings and projected animations. This work has been exhibited across the United States.

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Image: On the summit of Imja Tse, by Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita, 2022
Image: Crossing Renjo-La with Cholatse, by Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita, 2019