| KEVIN AMES is a recognized leader in the fast-evolving world of commercial digital photography. His book Photoshop CS: the Art of Photographing Women has been receiving rave reviews. Ames writes the “Digital Photographer’s Notebook” column for Photoshop User Magazine and his retouching techniques are shown in Scott Kelby’s books for digital photographers. His articles and reviews have appeared in Studio Photography & Design, Photo Electronic Imaging and Digital Output magazines. Kevin is much in demand as a teacher and speaker. He is a Photoshop World Dream Team instructor as well as author of their Basic and Advanced Fashion Photoshop training CDs. |
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ANTHONY BANNON is the seventh director of George Eastman House, the international museum of photography and film. Prior to his appointment in 1996, Bannon was Assistant VP of cultural affairs at the State University College of New York at Buffalo and director of its Burchfield-Penney Art Center. A critic, filmmaker and educator, he has written and taught in numerous settings in the US. His book, PhotoPictorialists of Buffalo, won the American Photographic Historical Society’s merit award and his writing on deafness won him the Gallaudet University Award. Bannon currently serves on the board of the NY Council for the Humanities, the Smithsonian Council, the High Falls Film Festival, and others.
CRAIG BLACKLOCK is one of the country’s premier landscape photographers. He specializes on Lake Superior, the subject of many of his 13 books. Images from his recent book, A Voice Within – The Lake Superior Nudes has been featured in many magazines, and the book won the best photography book of 2005 award from Independent Publishers. Russell Hart, Executive Editor at American Photo wrote, “Blacklock’s pictures are some of the most beautifully considered and sumptuously reproduced examples of the genre we’ve seen.” Blacklock switched from large format to a Canon digital camera three years ago and has produced an instructional video on photographing flowers with a digital SLR as well as a three-hour HD movie.
RICK BOETH is a 25-year veteran of photojournalism as magazine photo editor, book editor, and agency director. Based in New York, Rick worked for twenty years at Time Magazine, as Deputy Photo Editor in charge of National news coverage. In the past six years, he has explored the world of digital news agencies as Director of Global News for Corbis and News Director for World Picture News. At McGraw Hill, he was launch photo editor for Small Biz magazine. He has photo-edited three books, “Desert Diaries”, “ No Place for Children” by Steve Liss, and, his most recent project, “XL Forty Years of the Super Bowl.”
SUE BRISK was New York bureau chief for the award-winning, worldwide photo agency, SIPA Press USA, for more than 16 years until its sale. She developed story ideas and long-term photography projects from photojournalism to fine-art photography for editorial and advertising clients. Sue began her career as an editorial researcher for MAGNUM PHOTOS, moving on to become editorial bureau chief of Newsweek. She has returned to her roots at MAGNUM PHOTOS where she now serves as Editorial Director.
GORDON BROWN with a BS in Photographic Science from RIT, and a MA in Education, enjoyed a 33-year career at Eastman Kodak Co., where he taught workshops, worked in scientific photography, and coordinated black-and-white products.
 His claim to fame: He thought up the name “T-Max.” A Mensa member, Gordon is a consultant to Epson and Kodak for Digital photography and printing, holding six patents on professional photo equipment. He gives lectures and week-long workshops on Photoshop, digital printing and color management and is working on a book entitled "Photographic Digital Workshop in a Book" for doing in the “light room” with the computer, the things that he previously did in the darkroom.
NANCY BROWN, a former N. Y. model, is now based in Boca Raton, Florida, after working out of her N. Y. studio for thirty years. Specializing in beauty, lifestyle and stock photography, she travels the world for advertising agencies, magazines, design firms and pharmaceutical companies. A dynamic teacher of workshops around the world, she has authored three books: “Photographing People for Stock”, “Photographing People for Advertising”, and “Nude & Beauty Photography”. Nancy was made a Nikon Legend in 2002
DAN BURKHOLDER
is widely recognized as one of contemporary photography’s pioneers, exploiting digital technology as early as 1992 to make enlarged negatives for platinum/palladium contact printing from digital images. His award-winning book, Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing, is now a standard reference in the fine-art printmaking community and University of Texas Press is publishing his stunning series of post-Katrina New Orleans images in book form. He has taught at the I.C.P. (N.Y.), The Museum of Photographic Arts (San Diego), The School of the Chicago Art Institute, The Royal Photographic Society (Madrid), among others. Burkholder’s prints are included in private and museum collections internationally. |
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JAMES K COLTON, is currently the photography editor for Sports Illustrated. He began his career in 1972 as the color picture editor for the Associated Press. Five years later he joined Newsweek as a Senior Photo Editor for international news. In 1988, he became Executive Vice President and General Manager of Sipa Press in New York, before returning to Newsweek in 1992 as the Director of Photography. Colton has been acknowledged as one of the 100 most important people in photography by American Photo magazine and was presented the Golden Career Award in 2004 by the Palm Beach Photographic Centre.
JAY COLTON, is an Associate Photo Editor at TIME magazine as well as a talented photographer. He has served as a picture editor for many organizations, among them TIME On Line, ON magazine, Money magazine, The NY Times, Readers Digest Travel Holiday, Gamma-Liaison, Sygma Photo News Agency and the book Desert Storm. He has won major awards for his web site editing as well as his photography and was first to establish a QTVR site for a live event (1995 World Series). He has taught photography and editing at the International Center of Photography and the Eddie Adams Workshop among others.
PETE CROSS, is Assistant Managing Editor for photography at the Palm Beach Post. A former Miami Herald photographer The Post hired him in 1990 as Director of Photography. In 1992, The Post earned “Best Use Of Pictures” from the University of Missouri’s “Pictures Of the Year” competition (and earned the honor again in 1996 and 2005). The Post's photography staff are two-time Pulitzer finalists in Breaking News Photography -- in 1993 for coverage of Hurricane Andrew and 2005 for coverage of four major storms that ravaged Florida in 2004. In 2007 they were Pulitzer finalists again in Feature Photography. Eight times the Post has earned “Best Photography Staff” in the S.E. United States by the NPPA, including 2006 "Newspaper Staff of Year" from the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, and has an unprecedented eight wins for "Best Picture Editing" by the NPPA.
URI DAVIDOV, is a Principal in LANDOV MEDIA, the global online image agency based in New York. Uri began his career at Time Inc. in 1994 and left his post as Deputy Director of TimePix, the photo syndication division of Time Inc., in 2002 to co-found LANDOV MEDIA. Today, LANDOV is a leading source of digital photography and video, distributing over 4,000 images daily from major international wire services, television networks, newspapers and independent photographers to image buyers worldwide.
JACK DAVIS is best known as the coauthor of the award-winning guide to Photoshop, The Photoshop Wow! Book, as well as an award-winning designer, photographer, and contributing editor to numerous books and magazines. His latest book, “How to Wow: Photoshop for Photography,” was written with Ben Willmore. For over 20 years Jack has been an internationally recognized creative spokesperson on digital imagery. He routinely teaches as part of the “Dream Team” at the National Association of Photoshop Professional’s Photoshop World Conferences, where was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame for his life time contributions in the field of education and digital imagery.
GEORGE DeWOLFE
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has been a photographer since 1964. He studied with Ansel Adams and Minor White in the 1970’s and holds an MFA in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology. George has published widely, most notably At Home In The Wild, on New Hampshire’s White Mountains edited by David Brower and George DeWolfe’s Digital Photography Fine Print Workshop. He has had numerous one-man and group exhibitions, is in several permanent collections, is currently Senior Editor for Camera Arts, and consultant to Epson, Adobe, Hahnemühle and other companies.
He teaches The Digital Fine Print Workshop, Black and White Master Print and Contemplative Photography throughout the United States. George’s new book, Black and White Master Print, will be published in 2008.
DENNIS DIMICK is Executive Editor at National Geographic Magazine. Formerly Environment Editor, his picture-editing career began at The Louisville Courier-Journal. He has created magazine projects on energy, climate, endangered species, US public lands, and the American west. A 2004 project he led on global warming, Signs from Earth, was cited in 2005 by the Overseas Press Club for best environmental coverage, and by the Society of Environmental Journalists for explanatory reporting. Dimick has been on faculty of the Missouri Photo Workshop 11 times, and has twice won first place in Pictures of the Year for his magazine picture-editing portfolio.
PENELOPE A. DIXON began an independent appraisal firm specializing in fine art and documentary photography in 1981. She is currently a Senior Certified Member of both the Appraisers Association of America and the American Society of Appraisers,
where she was the first specialist to be certified in photography. She provides her clients – private collectors, museums, galleries, corporations, estates and archives – with appraisals for donation, insurance and estate purposes as well as marketing advice, cataloging services and collection management. For the past 22 years, Dixon
has appraised major museum and private collections and lectured and participated in panel discussions worldwide.
ARNOLD H DRAPKIN'S ten years as picture editor for TIME, won
the magazine over 200 awards for photographic excellence. He received the NPPA’s prestigious Sprague Lifetime Achievement Award, one of photojournalism’s highest honors, and the FOTOFusion Golden Career Award. Currently a photographic consultant Arnold was Director of Photography for the 1989 Bush inauguration and photographic consultant for the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush inaugurals. Director of The New School/Parsons School of Design International Photographic Workshop student exchange program for seven years, he was a photo manager for the 1996 Summer Olympics and has directed the FOTOFusion Festival since its inception.
DOUGLAS DUBLER is a fashion, beauty and fine art photographer who seamlessly joins craft and creativity to produce some of the most memorable images in editorial, advertising and fine art photography. His early mentors, the famed Japanese sculptor Isamu Noguchi and the renowned American photographer Ansel Adams, reflected his
appreciation for the duality of the creative process. From his work with Noguchi, Dubler received the Silver Seagull Award from Oriental Photo in Japan. His commercial successes have been recognized by the industry with awards from the Starch Report, Communication Arts, Art Directors Club and Clio.
SEAN DUGGAN is a photographer, author and educator who combines a traditional fine art photographic background with extensive digital imaging experience. He is the co-author of The Creative Digital Darkroom (O’Reilly Media, 2007), Photoshop Artistry (New Riders 2006) and Real World Digital Photography (Peachpit Press 2004). An Adobe Certified Photoshop expert, his Photoshop for Photographers tutorial column can be seen regularly in Layers magazine. In addition to teaching online Photoshop for Photographers classes at San Francisco’s Academy of Art University he also leads workshops at venues across the country. His web site is www.seanduggan.com
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JEFF DUNAS
has been a highly recognized member of the international photographic community for over two decades – as artist, commercial photographer, author and publisher. His publishing history includes portfolios, periodicals and photographic books featuring photography’s leading names. Exhibited in solo and group exhibitions worldwide, his work is the George Eastman House Museum, Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and major public collections in Europe. His recent books include State of the Blues, American Pictures, and Up Close & Personal. Two new books of his works will be published in 2007.
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