Betty Sederquist has been publishing and exhibiting her photographic work for over 30 years. After taking painting and drawing classes in school, she became interested in photography during extensive international travel in the early 1970s, following graduation from the University of California, Davis. She moved to Alaska from California, working for several commercial photographers there. She also received extensive mentoring from National Geographic photographers on assignment there. During this time she began her writing and photography career, publishing several guidebooks and a book called The Alaska Catalog before working as a photographer and editor for Alaska magazine. She was instrumental in starting a photo agency, AlaskaPhoto, which later became a nationally known agency, Aperture, before its purchase by Tony Stone. After moving to Sacramento she became a staff photographer and then editor of Sacramento magazine. Since 1989 she has been an adjunct professor of photography at Folsom Lake College. She returns to Alaska often, leading small group wilderness photo tours specializing in up-close photography of bears, whales and landscapes. She has also led workshops to Mono Lake, the ghost town of Bodie, Yosemite and Ecuador (Galapagos/Amazon).