Anthea Appel

@antheaappel

About

Anthea Appel was born in Kentucky. She grew up in Ohio, Missouri,and New York City. She attended the High School of Art & Design inManhattan, and majored in photography. She also attended Queens Collegein Flushing NY, and NYU, where she studied film. Anthea freelanced as aphotographer in her early twenties, but made a sudden career change in1982, and joined the NYPD. She worked patrol in North and South Queens.In 2002, after twenty-year service, she retired from the policedepartment.

"The First Responders" is Anthea's first book. But, it won't be her last.