2012 Biographies

This section contains boigraphies of FOTOfusion presenters that will be present this year.

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Charles Altschul

CHARLES ALTSCHUL is President of Maine Media Workshops and College in Rockport Maine. He holds a B.A. and M.F.A. from Yale where he was a faculty Senior Lecturer. His career as teacher and artist stems from contemporary and historical perspectives in both graphic design and photography. Creator of the nation’s first Multimedia BFA program at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, his photographs have been widely exhibited and published. He designed and published handcrafted books, most notably an illustrated folio signed by Nobel prizewinning author Samuel Beckett.

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Chris Alvanas

CHRIS ALVANAS, a digital artist and post-production retoucher for high-end beauty and fashion, is a popular speaker on post-production beauty retouching, HDR and fine art printing. He is Director of Photography at Boston University’s Center for Digital Imaging Arts in Washington DC. A new filmmaker, using a multi-genre approach: the photographer’s eye and the musician’s ear, he believes the addition of video and music offer exciting opportunities in cinematic storytelling. Chris’s work has been featured in Shutterbug, Nikon World, Popular Photography, and the Nikon Pro website.

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Dr. Anthony Bannon

Dr. ANTHONY BANNON, the seventh director of George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, has served longer than any previous director. During his tenure, the museum launched two word-renowned post-graduate photographic and film preservation schools and acquired important collections from photographers and filmmakers.  He has worked as a critic, filmmaker, and educator and was named CEO of the Year by the Public Relations Society of America’s Rochester Chapter, and Outstanding Arts Administrator of the Year by Buffalo’s Chamber of Commerce and Arts Council. In 2007 Bannon earned the Golden Career Award from the FOTOfusion Festival of Photography & Digital Imaging.

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Debbie Bondulic

DEBBIE BONDULIC is a principal in Sublime Management, a NY agency representing photographers. As nation photo editor at Newsweek she covered stories from the Olympics to presidential elections. At Life magazine, as associate picture editor, she edited and produced award-winning stories, including “Anorexia,” and “Sobriety High School.”  Each won top honors in Communication Arts’ Photography Annual. Moving to People magazine as a photo editor, she produced stories on the Vietnam War’s 25th anniversary, 9/11, the Iraq War, and Hurricane Katrina.

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David Bram

DAVID BRAM is a fine art photographer and editor, founder and curator of Fraction Magazine, an online venue dedicated to fine art and contemporary photography bringing together diverse bodies of work by established and emerging artists worldwide. Founded in 2008, Fraction is published monthly, and has shown portfolios from more than 160 photographers. A juror for Review Santa Fe in 2010, and a juror for Critical Mass in 2009, 2010 and 2011, he is co-founder of the Roundtable Review, and was the recipient of the Griffin Museum of Photography’s Rising Star Award In September 2010.

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Gordon Brown

GORDON BROWN, a photographer since he was 12, now works with digital photography, especially raw files. He has a BS in Photo Science from RIT, and an MS in Education. Working at Kodak, he coined the name “T-Max,” taught photo workshops, coordinated B/W products, and was the Kodak rep. at the Ansel Adams Workshops for many years. He has written four photo books: one on the Stop System, two for teenagers, and one for digital workshops. Gordon, a Mensa member, lectures, teaches workshops, and consults for NIK, Kodak, and Epson. “Photographs should communicate ideas and emotions to the viewer.”

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Dan Burkholder

DAN BURKHOLDER has a long history of looking over the photographic horizon to see, explore and teach the next great thing in imaging. Dan has taught digital imaging workshops for 16 years at venues including The Royal Photographic Society (Spain), The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (IL), and The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia). Dan’s new book, “iPhone Artistry” (Pixiq Press, 2011) is the definitive guide for creative iPhone photographers.

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James K. Colton

JAMES K. COLTON is the photography editor for Sports Illustrated.  Previously he was with Newsweek as its director of photography. He received the Palm Beach Photographic Centre’s “Golden Career Award” at FotoFusion 2004. He also received an International Photography Award “Lucie” for Picture Editor of the Year 2007 and he was named Magazine Picture Editor of the Year in 2008 by the NPPA. In 2010 he received a "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Griffin Museum of Photography. American Photo named him one of the 100 most important people in photography.

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Jack Davis

JACK DAVIS is best known as co-author of the award-winning, best-selling (over a million copies in 12 languages), guides to Photoshop, The Photoshop Wow! Book, and How to Wow: Photoshop for Photography. As an award-winning designer, photographer and contributing editor to many other books and magazines on digital tools and the creative process, for over 20 years, Jack has been an internationally recognized spokesperson on digital imagery, giving keynote address’ at conferences and universities worldwide and leading countless hands-on workshops. In 2003 he was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame for life time contributions in the field of education and digital imagery.

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Dennis Dimick

DENNIS DIMICK serves as executive editor for the environment at National Geographic Magazine. Formerly a newspaper photographer, his picture-editing career began at The Louisville Courier-Journal in Kentucky. A magazine picture editor since 1991, he has created projects on world population, freshwater, energy, climate change, endangered species, US public lands, agriculture, and the American west. Projects he has overseen on energy and climate change have been recognized by the Overseas Press Club and the Society of Environmental Journalists. Dimick has twice won first place in Pictures of the Year for his magazine picture-editing portfolio. You can follow him on Twitter @ddimick.

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