Born in Saigon in 1968, Star Rush emigrated with her family to the U.S. in 1972. She is a documentary and street photographer, writer, and educator, and an advocate of mobile photography. She’s an artist member of IDEA Odyssey Artist Cooperative & Gallery in Seattle, and a  founding member of Mobile Photo Group, an international collective of photographers creating images on mobile devices.  She’s a freelance writer and often contributes to  iPhoneography.com and other content providers. She teaches composition and rhetoric at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Her work explores mythical and mundane notions of America as she tries to understand herself  and the threads and stories that weave place and identity–symbols and images of belonging, leaving, arriving, erosion of certainties and corruptions of absolutes among images of people, landscapes, and objects. She says, “How can images tell stories which situate past and present as moments of simultaneity? My mobile photography pursues the idea of pulling the past forward into lyrical, narrative images that transgress boundaries of “old” and “new,” using a utilitarian appliance, the everyday “eye” of a cell phone camera.” Rush’s photography has been exhibited in the United States, as well as London and Rome. Most recently a selection of photographs was included in a group exhibit in Seattle as part  of “States,” at IDEA Odyssey Gallery, October 2011. In 2012, her photoblog became syndicated on Photoverse, a handheld application developed by Kolekse.com