Cira is an accomplished photographer, film producer, and mountaineer dedicated to combining passions for art, adventure, and awareness. An experienced teacher, speaker, and philanthropist, Cira has traveled the world sharing her knowledge and supporting women’s empowerment, the arts, and humanitarian causes. As an image maker, Cira is an exhibiting fine art photographer specializing in high altitude black and white photography, primarily across the Himalayas, where she has travelled, trekked two thousand miles, and summited five technical peaks over a decade.

She has also Executive Produced the international award-winning documentary film Dream Mountain, which has appeared in twenty-five top-tier international festivals, including seven Mountainfilm Alliance festivals and the esteemed Banff Mountain Film World Tour. Whether on the street or in extreme conditions, Cira approaches her photographs with a poetic, thoughtful eye, rendering deep meaning with technical detail.

Cira began taking pictures thirty years ago with a careworn Leicaflex SL2 film camera that once belonged to her grandfather. Cira is one of a few women permanently exhibited in the Leica USA corporate collection, with work recently selected for the “Leica 100.” Her photographs have been exhibited worldwide, with recent solo shows at Leica Gallery Los Angeles and Leica Store Miami. Each year, Cira takes time to share her passion for black and white photography while teaching “The Language of Black and White” close to home at Santa Fe Workshops.