Fred Trease’s education has been as a biologist and a sociologist. The majority of his career has been spent in the practice of environmental public health.

Whether he was making double exposures with a Brownie as a boy, photographing chromosomes and cells in college or documenting environmental conditions as an adult professional, photography has always been a part of his life. He says that he has come to understand the world through the lens of a camera. In 2006 he began exploring the medium as an artistic outlet.

In 2013 he began using a tablet to make digital drawings based on his science background. This daily practice is an exploration of everything from the subatomic and microscopic to the sociological and cosmological. New ways to look at familiar things. Essentially that’s what his work is about. Using the camera and other digital devices in different ways to shift the paradigm of daily life. His work has been shown in a variety of local, regional and national exhibitions and is in numerous collections in the US .