Image Alumni ’09 Education BFA in Photography Email Address pher.82@gmail.com Website paohher.com Social Media Instagram Current Career Freelance Photography Location Lino Lakes, MN Pao Houa Her was born somewhere in the northern jungles of Laos. She fled Laos with her family when she was a baby, crossed the Mekong on her mother’s back, was fed opium to keep from crying, lived in the refugee camps in Thailand, and landed in America on a silver metal bird in the mid-1980s. She is a visual artist in Minnesota who works within multiple genres of photography.