Gene Parulis has been absorbed in photographing the world for more than sixty years. The two poles of his life have been teaching and traveling, and photography has occupied a central place in both passions. Currently retired as a teacher, he has taught in diverse places from a mountain village in Algeria to Kuwait University and the Yemen American Language Institute and community colleges in California and Vermont. He has exhibited in galleries in the USA and Europe, and his photos have appeared in a number of magazines, books, and websites. He has collaborated with writers particularly with regard to illustrating themes of spirituality and personal development. Among his collaborations include the books The Twelve Steps of Forgiveness and The Wisdom of the Self by Paul Ferrini, Teaching as a Spiritual Practice by Lauren Alderfer and The Meditative Gardener by Cheryl Wilfong. Working with the anthropologist Gordon Mathews in Guangzhou, China, he provided photographic illustrations for Mathews’s The World in Guangzhou. Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace. A Rhode Island Council of the Humanities grant recipient with Francis Leazes of Rhode Island College, Gene was on the production team of a PBS documentary film A Road to the Alamo. The Story of Albert Martin which aired on Providence RI PBS WSBE in the winter of 2017 about three generations of a Providence family, one member of which fell at the Alamo. Gene was awarded a fellowship by The Schoolhouse Foundation and spent the month of November 2014 as artist-in-residence in Mutianyu, China, under the Great Wall. Another residency brought him to Taos NM in 2022. In the last decade he has worked as a digital artist exploring mirrors, mandalas, and motion. His works can be found at Mitchell-Giddings Fine Art in Brattleboro and The Vault in Springfield, Vermont.