'''Peyton Richmond Russo''' (Saint Paul, Virginia) is the creator of Chemography, an art medium in which the artist brushes development chemicals onto sensitized photographic paper in a dark room. Russo was born in Southwest Virginia. She studied photography at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, and journalism at American University in Washington, D.C. She worked for several years as a reporter-photographer for the Roanoke WorldNews and the Bristol Herald-Courier. Source: "Peyton Richmond Russo." Retrieved February 15, 2006. {{artist-stub}}