Lyla Emery White is a fine art & freelance photographer, born on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia and currently living in New York State. She has been photographing since she was nine years old. She moved to Pennsylvania in 1986 and studied photography at the Art Institute in Philadelphia. After graduating, she worked as a freelance photographer and assisted photographer Larry Fink for six years. Her work has been published in several magazines, newspapers, and books and on CD covers.