Ken Schuster spent more than three decades in Los Angeles as an advertising and editorial illustration photographer, while also serving as a Professor of Media Arts & Photography. In 2001, he stepped away from that world—selling his studio and much of his equipment—and retreated to a small cabin in the northern California redwoods. A year later, he moved to Newbury, NH, into a light-filled post-and-beam home surrounded by protected forestland. Though he believed his photographic life was behind him, the landscape had other ideas. Each window became a frame; each shift of light, an invitation. He returned to photography not as a profession, but as a response to place. That renewed engagement led painter and gallery owner Ron Brown to invite him to create and curate the photography floor at The Banks Gallery in New London, NH, a role he held for seven years. His work is held in private collections in the U.S. and abroad, and on permanent display at New London Hospital; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH; and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston.