Evan Butterfield finds himself holding up a multigenerational interest in photography. His grandfather operated a photography studio in a small Illinois town where he specialized in hand-tinted portraits of Gladious Festival queens. In retirement, his father discovered a new career as a photographer for a local newspaper in a Chicago suburb. While he was never a professional photographer, Evan's interest in photography began with nature, and then his interest in control moved him into the studio. Evan's photography has evolved over the years from elaborate Steampunk characters to a more strange and unique style that defies strict genre classification. Combining the erotic with dark fantasy and the absurd, the natural with the artificial, Evan uses antique, unexpected, and found objects to create the unusual and intriguing masks, headpieces, and eyewear that define his odd and slightly disturbing world. Throughout his career, Evan has been a publishing professional. Evan received his MA in English from the University of Illinois-Urbana, and his JD from DePaul University in Chicago. At Kaplan Professional Publishing in Chicago, Evan was Publisher and VP of Product Development. While there, he published articles and gave regular formal presentations about copyright law to industry audiences of real estate agents, educators, and regulators. At the IEEE Computer Society in Los Angeles, Evan was Director of Products & Services, overseeing more than thirty magazines, scholarly journals and books on computer science, plus dozens of international conferences. At IEEE, Evan continued to speak on copyright issues at conferences in the US and abroad, and helped lead the development of licensing and open access models for the organization. More recently, Evan developed and taught copyright and trademark classes for the Art Institute of Las Vegas, and created an online course on criminal intellectual property law for Arizona State University. Evan also contributed a continuing education course for the international craft association Nest, and wrote several blog posts for the Craft Industry Alliance. He is the author of "Copyright for Creatives: A Practical Guide to Copyright Law for Creative People Who Make Stuff," now in its second edition. Evan lives on the western edge of Las Vegas, Nevada with his husband and cat, and has been creating, publishing and displaying his own odd photography for many years.