Susan Burnstine was born in Chicago and now lives in Los Angeles. 
she is one of the few photographers to use alternative processes to create an idiosyncratic and deeply personal visual landscape. 
She tried to recreate the appearance of her unconscious world using every type of known cameras: 35 mm, medium format, large format, as well as all alternative printing methods, but nothing worked. So she decided to create her first prototype camera in 2005, about a year after starting her project. 
Her creative process is extremely intuitive and unplanned using her camera to capture a subject conveying a symbol or metaphor of her dream, enabling her to reinterpret it on film.