Rick Holt
WEBSITE: Rick-Holt.com
Rick Holt, founder of Digital Darkroom Workshops and R W Holt Photography, has been a photographer for more than 35 years. As the first intern at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary at age 15, Rick's passion for photography was ignited while working with raptors and other birds.
Years of summer internships and yearbook duties enabled Rick to develop his craft. A lifetime of outdoor pursuits and a love of travel have enabled him to journey to remote corners of our globe.
Following a degree from the University of Washington and an MBA from Lehigh University, Rick founded Fiberoptic Medical Products. After the sale of that business in 1996, he realized his passion for photography had been re-ignited by the nascent digital revolution. His renewed interest led him to become an Adobe Certified Expert in 2002. In 2003, Rick created the Digital Darkroom Workshops while continuing to teach at Lehigh and travel the globe in pursuit of evocative imagery.
In one of life's interesting circuitous routes, Rick helped found the Art Wolfe Digital Photography Center in the spring of 2006 and continues to teach on a regular basis. In 1979, he was Art's very first student in the early days of a career that would have him become one of our most renowned photographers. Further, Rick will join Art for his 2007 Creative Sessions Tour. They will give a series of two-day intensives in the United States and in Europe. Rick will continue to teach at the McDonald Digital Institute in McClure, Pennsylvania, as well as offering courses in his studio in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and in other local institutions.
Jay Maisel
WEBSITE: www.JayMaisel.com
Photographer Jay Maisel's career spans 40 years. His name has become synonymous with vibrant color photography that uses light and gesture to create countless unforgettable images for advertising, editorial and corporate communications. In addition, his pictures appear in books and art collections. Included among his many awards for excellence are the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame, American Society of Media Photographers' Photographer of the Year Award and the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award. A graduate of Cooper Union and Yale University, Jay continues his education by teaching younger photographers at workshops, seminars and lectures around the world.
Tony Sweet
WEBSITE: www.TonySweet.com
After 20 years as a professional jazz artist, Tony changed careers and directed his creative juices towards nature photography. The improvisational, spontaneous, and abstract nature of jazz are also integral elements of nature photography.
Today, Tony's work is published on greeting cards, calendars, post cards, posters, annual reports, catalogs, and electronic mediums. He is represented by The Getty Picture Agency.
Tony conducts his "Visual Artistry" photography workshops throughout the continental United States. Tony's articles and photography are featured in Shutterbug and Rangefinder magazines, and as contributor to Nikonnet.com. He is a staff writer for Nikon World magazine.
He has authored three books on the art of photography: Fine Art Nature Photography, Fine Art Flower Photography, and Fine Art Nature Photography: Water, Ice, Fog (Jan. 2007). All are published by Stackpole Books.
He uses digital technology to produce fine art giclee' prints which are exhibited in private and corporate collections throughout the United States. He maintains an active speaking schedule on the subjects of nature and flower photography and marketing, addressing professional photography organizations, universities, seminars, and workshops.
In March, 2006, Tony was honored as a Nikon Legend Behind the Lens.
Jerry Courvoisier
WEBSITE: www.JerryCourvoisier.com
Jerry Courvoisier photographer, educator, digital artist, and internationally recognized imaging technology consultant, has directed the Santa Fe Workshops' digital program for 12 years, building it into one of the most respected digital educational programs in the world. A popular teacher of imaging application and printmaking workshops, he is the person others turn to for solid advice on digital imaging technologies.
Jerry's hands-on knowledge of digital imaging production was acquired through experimentation, research, and instruction. In addition to teaching, he works as an imaging workflow consultant and a beta tester for many software and hardware manufacturers. Jerry's current projects include digital camera capture and processing, ink-jet print-media output, digital portfolio development projects, evaluating image asset management systems, and digital fine-art printmaking.
Greg Gorman
WEBSITE: www.GregGormanPhotography.com
Greg Gorman's work documents that peculiar obsession of the 20th century celebrity. His photography is timeless and not confined to has-beens, hot properties and wannabes. Each shot gives a picture of human nature in character. "For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions," says Gorman "and it leaves something to be desired."
Over two decades, Greg Gorman has continued to make the art of photography. From personality portraits and advertising campaigns to magazine layouts and fine art work, Greg has developed and showcased a discriminating and unique style in his profession. Born in 1949 in Kansas City, Missouri, Greg attended the Univeristy of Kansas from 1967-69 with a major in photojournalism. He completed his studies at the Univeristy of South California: graduating with a master of fine arts degree in cinematography in 1972.
He currently resides in Los Angeles and Mendocino, California
Robert Glenn Ketchum
WEBSITE: www.RobertGlennKetchum.com
For 38 years Robert Glenn Ketchum's imagery and books have helped to define contemporary color photography while at the same time addressing critical national environmental issues, and have made him one of the most successful artist/activists in American history.
Aside from his commitment to his art, Ketchum has had a lifelong dedication to public service founding Advocacy Arts Foundation and serving as board member or councilor to the Alaska Conservation Foundation, the American Land Conservancy, and the Alaska Wildlife Alliance. Previously, he was Curator of Photography for the National Park Foundation for 15 years, and was a member of the board, vice-president, and president of the formative Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies during the 1970's.
Patrick Donehue
WEBSITE: www.Corbis.com
Patrick Donehue is the VP/Chief Photographer for Corbis. Well-known as an industry expert, Donehue is a frequent lecturer on the creative and business aspects of photography.
Patrick is president of the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) and sits on the executive board of the Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS) and is a member of the President's Council at the International Center of Photography (ICP). He also sits on the Advisory Board for the Microsoft Icons Of Imaging program and is also on the faculty of The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops.
A professional photographer since 1977, Patrick's images have been used worldwide by clients such as General Electric, Motorola, Nissan and Chrysler.
Freeman Patterson
WEBSITE: www.FreemanPatterson.com
Freeman Patterson lives at Shamper's Bluff, New Brunswick, near his childhood home. He attended multi-grade (one-room) schools in Grey's Mills and Long Reach, and high school at Macdonald Consolidated School in Kingston. He graduated with a B.A. (Honours: Philosophy) from Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, in 1959. The subject of his honour's thesis was "The Form Of The Good" in Plato's Republic. In 1962 he received a Master of Divinity degree (M. Div.) from Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University, New York. His master's thesis was Still Photography As A Medium Of Religious Expression. While in New York, Freeman studied photography and visual design privately with Dr. Helen Manzer. From 1962 to 1965 Freeman was dean of religious studies at Alberta College, Edmonton, and began actively to work in photography. He moved to Toronto in 1966 to work for one year at Berkeley Studio, the United Church of Canada still photography and film production house. During this time and until the late 1970's, Freeman completed numerous assignments across Canada for the Still Photography Division of the National Film Board of Canada. He also developed a large roster of professional clients in the editorial and advertising fields. Freeman has always been a strong supporter of the amateur photography community, and is a life member and former president of The Toronto Guild for Colour Photography.
Freeman returned to New Brunswick in 1973 primarily in order to pursue his personal artistic interests and to establish a workshop of photography and visual design. Since then he has taught several week-long classes every year and, commencing in 1984, in southern Africa as well, where he co-founded the Namaqualand Photographic Workshops. He has given numerous workshops in the United States, Israel, New Zealand and Australia.
Although Freeman does much of his photographic work at home, he travels widely to photograph and to teach. Since 1973 he has frequently presented half-day and all-day seminars to large groups (50 to 4000 persons) in the visual arts, music, education, and ecology across Canada, the United States, and in other countries. Since 1977 he has written and illustrated four instructional books on photography and visual design and has co-authored a fifth, four large cloth-edition books, and co-authored and illustrated two more. In 1996 he completed a CD-ROM entitled Creating Pictures: A Visual Design Workshop and a major retrospective book of text and photographs, entitled ShadowLight: A Photographer's Life for Harper Collins of Canada which was followed in 1998 by Odysseys: Meditations and Thoughts For A Life's Journey and in 2003 by The Garden. Freeman has written for various magazines, CBC radio, and been featured on CBC television's Man Alive, Sunday Arts And Entertainment, and Adrienne Clarkson Presents.
From 1973 to 1989, Freeman was an elected trustee of New Brunswick School District #19, served for eight years as vice-president and director of Masterfile (a major stock photography agency), two years on the board of Aids Saint John, and six years as a trustee of the Nature Conservancy of Canada. He has donated his property on Shamper's Bluff to the conservancy for an ecological reserve and education area. An avid motorcyclist, he is also a member of the Saint John Harley Owners' Group.
Mike Yamashita
WEBSITE: www.MichaelYamashita.com
Mike Yamashita has combined his dual passions of photography and travel for over 25 years as a shooter for The National Geographic and more recently, with his film production company, Saga Pictures. Specializing in Asia, he has covered Vietnam and the Mekong River, Marco Polo's journey to China, the Great Wall, the DMZ between North and South Korea, as well as almost every aspect of Japanese culture from samurai to fish markets. His most recent story, on Zheng He, the legendary Ming Dynasty admiral and explorer, first appeared in the July 2005 issue of The National Geographic, and was released as a documentary feature film in 2006. The film, The Ghost Fleet, won Best Historical Documentary at the 2006 New York International Film Festival. Yamashita's book on the subject, Zheng He, was published by White Star in September 2006. His most recent book, The Great Wall; From Beginning to End was just released in November 2007 by Sterling.
Yamashita's prior book, Marco Polo: A Photographer's Journey, sold over 200,000 copies worldwide in its initial printing and was re-released by Rizzoli in the fall of 2004. Marco Polo is also the subject of his award-winning National Geographic Channel documentary, Marco Polo: The China Mystery Revealed, in which Yamashita retraces the 13th-century Venetian's epic excursion to China. His other books include In the Japanese Garden, Mekong: Mother of Waters, and New York: Flying High, an aerial portrait of Manhattan.
A frequent lecturer and teacher at workshops around the world, Yamashita has received numerous industry awards, including those from the National Press Photographers Association Pictures of the Year, the New York Art Directors Club, and the Asian-American Journalists Association. Major exhibits of his work have opened throughout Asia, in Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore, as well as in Rome, Frankfurt, Los Angeles and Washington, DC. His images of Korea's DMZ were featured in an exhibit at the Visa Pour L'Images photojournalism festival at Perpignan, France.
When not traveling, Michael Yamashita lives with his family in rural NJ, where he maintains a studio and an extensive stock library, and is an active volunteer fireman.
Andrew Rodney
WEBSITE: www.DigitalDog.net
Andrew Rodney is the owner of The Digital Dog, a digital imaging training and consulting business located in Santa, Fe New Mexico. Andrew, aka the Digital Dog, has successfully provided services and training to photographers, designers, print shops, government agencies and Fortune 1000 companies since 1993. Andrew has written for PDN, Publish, Photoshop User, Digital Photo Pro, Electronic Publishing, Digital Output, MacWeek and Professional Photographer. He is the author of Color Management for Photographers: Hands on Techniques for Photoshop Users, published by Focal Press. Andrew lectures around the country on many aspects of digital imaging and color management. The Digital Dog is devoted to the understanding and adoption of color management.
Andrew has been a Beta tester for Adobe Photoshop since version 2.5 and is currently an Alpha tester for Adobe Systems. Andrew is one of the principle partners of Pixel Genius LLC, a company that created PhotoKit and PhotoKit-Sharpener. He was named a "Top 40 Photoshop Expert" by Wacom Technologies. In 2007, Andrew was inducted into the NAPP Photoshop Hall of Fame.
Jim Clark
WEBSITE: www.JimClarkPhotography.com
For the past thirty-two years, Jim has been an award-winning and nationally renowned nature photographer, writer, motivational speaker, and instructor. A contributing editor for Outdoor Photographer Magazine, Jim's articles and images have also appeared in magazines such as Nature's Best, Defenders, Wildlife Refuge, Wonderful West Virginia, Birders World, Country, Photo Media, and Wild Bird. Other clients have included Nikon, National Wildlife Federation, Nature Conservancy, and FujiFilm.
Jim is the author and photographer of three books: West Virginia: The Allegheny Highlands (Westcliffe Publishers), Mountain Memories: An Appalachian Sense of Place (WVU Press) and The Land Between Ocean & Bay: A Natural Celebration of the Eastern Shore (Mountain Trail Press), which is scheduled for release in fall 2008.
Jim is Past President of the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) and continues to be a frequent speaker and instructor for many NANPA events around the country. In 2000, Jim received NANPA's Outstanding Recognition Award. Jim also serves on the advisory board for Nature's Best Magazine and since 2000, he has been a member of the Fujifilm Talent Team.
The documentary film, "Mountain Memories," profiles Jim's life and career as a nature photographer. The film, which aired on PBS in August 2003, was also shown at the prestigious 2005 American Conservation Film Festival.
Jim conducts nature photography workshops, tours, programs, and seminars across the country. Jim loves to share with others his passion for nature, photography, and life.
Keron Psillas
WEBSITE: www.tanatyva.com
Keron is the Director of the Art Wolfe Digital Photography Center and Art's assistant on Travel Photo Workshops. She has had two calendars and three books published and is currently involved in two new book projects, due out in 2009. Keron's teaching focuses on igniting the creative fire in her students. Through imparting a philosophy of how she has taught herself to see, photographically, students are encouraged to think beyond photography to expand creatively. Composition, light, gesture, pattern, texture, color, and emotion are the topics that help to structure the lectures. Keron's work is represented by Corbis and the Danita Delimont Agency.
Arthur Meyerson
WEBSITE: www.ArthurMeyerson.com
A native Texan, Meyerson travels extensively throughout the world photographing for corporate, advertising and editorial assignments. He is included in "The World's Top Ten Annual Report Photographers" listing by Communication World and has been named Adweek's Southwest Photographer of the Year on three separate occasions. American Photo Magazine named him as one of the top photographers in advertising.
Besides a listing in Who's Who, his awards include gold medals from the New York Art Directors Club, the Art Directors Club of Houston, the Dallas Society of Visual Communications, Photo/Design Magazine and the prestigious Stephen Kelly Award for his work on the Nike advertising campaign. He was also was named by Nikon to their list of "Legends Behind the Lens." He was honored by the Houston Advertising Federation as the first recipient of the "Only In Houston" award for individuals "whose creativity and passion for his art have brought recognition to the city of Houston".
Meyerson's photographs have been exhibited internationally and he has been featured in many publications including Communication Arts, Photo Pro, Photo Design, Zoom (France), Rangefinder, Portfolio, Idea (Japan), Novum (Germany), Photoworld (China), Graphis (USA), Digital Photo Pro (USA) and Fotodigital (Portugal).
A photographer with a strong commitment to his profession, Meyerson teaches photography workshops and participates in speaking engagements throughout the U.S. and abroad. He is a member of the Advisory Council for the Santa Fe Center for Photography as well as serving on the Board of Advisors for the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops.
Partial client list includes: Coca-Cola, Disney, Nike, Apple, National Geographic, Lanai (Hawaii) Tourism, NFL, Compaq, Russell Athletic, United Airlines, Alfred Dunhill, Shell, Transamerica, Conde Nast, Texas Tourism, Norfolk Southern, American Express, Nikon, Eastman Kodak, Bank of America, Levis and Motorola.