Tobin Fraley

Born in 1951, Tobin Fraley spent his first ten years in Seattle, Washington, growing up in and around his grandfather’s amusement park.  Endless free rides on the park’s bumper cars have had a profound and somewhat curious effect on Fraley’s personality.  Since Seattle he has lived in Berkeley, California, New York City, Kansas City, Missouri and currently resides in Long Grove, Illinois, where he and his wife Rachel own Woodland Grove Gallery.  He is the author of three books on the history of Carousels along with a holiday children’s story titled, A Humbug Christmas.  Fraley currently teaches photography at the Chicago Botanic Garden and the Morton Arboretum and would someday like to open a restaurant that serves amazing breakfasts, but he knows that this is a crazy idea.