Photography

Faculty
Consulting Director
Cary Wolinsky
Cary Wolinsky began as a news and magazine photographer for The Boston Globe in 1968 while completing a degree in journalism at Boston University’s College of Communication. By 1972 he was freelancing for Natural History, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Newsweek, and International Wildlife.

As a contract photographer with National Geographic in the mid-1980s, Cary specialized in historical and cultural assignments that required in-depth research and well-managed global coverage. His numerous stories published by National Geographic include Silk, The Queen of Textiles; Sichuan: Where China Changes Course; Inside the Kremlin; Sir Joseph Banks; The Greening of the Empire; The Quest for Color; The Power of Writing; Australia: A Harsh Awakening; New Eyes on the Oceans; Diamonds: The Real Story; and Dreamweavers, a high-tech look at high-tech textiles.

Cary has taken a leading role in introducing quality photography to electronic publishing. He co-founded Picture Network International, an on-line photography database system. In 1997 PNI was sold to Kodak and now markets photography under the name PictureQuest. Cary’s photographs have been licensed for advertising and editorial use in hundreds of publications throughout the world. His photographic prints have been exhibited and acquired by museums and private collections in the United States, Europe, Australia and Asia.

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Program Director:
Foundation
Rick Ashley
Rick Ashley graduated from Trinity College in 1976 and moved to the Boston area. To pursue his interest in photography, he enrolled in a professional school and worked as an assistant to many of Boston’s leading photographers. In 1979 Rick opened his studio, working primarily as a corporate/industrial photographer. His work soon expanded to include video production, shooting and producing sports marketing videos and television commercials. His work garnered several local advertising awards as well as a Golden Pencil from New York’s One Club. Clients included such diverse organizations as Women’s Olympic Cycling Team, IBM, and Ann and Hope Department stores.

Rick’s still photography clients included IBM, Digital Equipment Corp., Xerox Canada, Avatar Technologies, GM, Sperry, Video Express, Raleigh Bicycles, ISI Corporation, Franklin Sporting Goods, Dogz Togz, Boston University, Massachusetts Communications College, Moussy Beer, E. M. Parker Medical, GoodWives, Glass America, Coldwell Banker, and Town and Country magazine. In addition to commercial work, he has written and received several arts grants to pursue particular projects of interest.

While on an extended sabbatical in Italy, Rick explored digital image capture and manipulation, including its electronic and print distribution. During this period, Rick contributed to trade and textbooks on digital photography.

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Program Director: Commercial & Advertising
Rob Van Petten
Rob Van Petten shoots fashionable photographs for advertising. His current portfolio, Near Future, is a colorful collection of fantasy illustrations; cosmic comixs that tell a very short story of whimsical future fiction.

Rob grew up in a Navy family and began documenting his family’s travels in Japan at age 10. He received a degree in photojournalism from Boston University’s then-School of Public Communication and was photo editor of the BU News. He was introduced to the digital world while developing marketing images for Data General, Digital Equipment and NEC and helped build brand identities for Reebok, Timberland, Solomon Skis, Tommy Hilfiger, Etonic, Robert Mondavi, American Optical, RayBan, Rockport, Levis, Converse, Bose, Polaroid and Kodak.

Rob has shot fashion catalogs for Talbots, Carroll Reed, Johnny Appleseed, Bob’s Stores, Foot Locker and Federated. He has won numerous awards for his work and has been featured in Photo District News, American Photo, Petersen’s Photographic and Studio Photography and Design. He is a member of the Mentor Series for American Photo and Popular Photo magazines. His articles have appeared in Nikon World, Nikon Pro, Kodak Pro Pass and Popular Photo.

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Program Director:
Wedding & Portraits
Jennifer Hudson

Jennifer Hudson is the founder of Perry Aslyn Photography, now residing in Boston, MA. She is a rising star in the PPA ranks, achieving sufficient merits for her Masters and Craftsman in just three years, along with a host of trophies and awards in every category. She is in constant demand to teach her unique brand of Vintage and Haute Couture imagery. In 2007 she wowed with her innovative approach to Fine Art Portraiture at Texas School, West Coast School and Image Explorations in Victoria, Canada. Jennifer is the owner and principal photographer of Olive Avonlea Couture Photography.

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Program Director: Photography
-Foundation, Commercial & Advertising
Chris Alvanas
Chris is a digital photographer, Photoshop maven and a sought-after postproduction artist for high-end beauty retouching. As a photographer, Chris is known for his commercial quirky kids’ images. His fine art delves into the worlds of jazz and dance by illustrating the musician’s relationship with the instrument, as well as the motion of dance. Chris’s images have appeared in Nikon World, Popular Photography, Nikon Product Guide, the Nikon Pro website, and in the 2007 and 2008 Nikon calendars. His clients include Nikon, Kodak, Procter & Gamble, Safilo Eyewear-Italy, Armadani Jewelers, Bob’s Store, Samsonite, Newport International Polo, American Photo, Popular Photography, Rubberball and Getty Images. As a retoucher, Chris is a regular contributor to Layers Magazine and is included in the 2008 Layers Magazine best of the year compilation DVD. He is currently working with Katrin Eismann on the second edition of her book Compositing and Masking.

Chris is a member of the Nikon Mentor Series and has taught photo treks in New York City, Boston, Newport, Arches National Park and China (2008). He has presented at Photo Plus Expo, New York and PMA 2008 for Nikon.

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Associate Director Washington, DC Campus Morgan Howarth
During the past 25 years, Morgan has owned and operated a full service commercial photography studio specializing in state-of-the-art digital and film-based photography for the catalog, stock, editorial and advertising industries. The studio has expert status in all formats of film and digital photography, Photoshop and computer systems related to the photography industry.

Morgan recently moved to the Washington, DC, area to shoot the beautiful homes of DC, Maryland and Virginia; food from new restaurants; and portraits of movers and shakers in the city.

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Prodram Director:
Wedding & Portrait
Matt Mendelsohn
Matt has been a photographer for 21 years. After receiving a BA in English Literature from State University of New York – Binghamton, he began his career at the Binghamton Press and Sun-Bulletin. He quickly moved on to USA Today then United Press International as photo editor and photographer. While at UPI, Matt covered the White House, the Gulf War, the invasion of Panama and countless professional sporting events. He returned to DC after a brief stint in LA, becoming photo editor of the news section of USA Today and eventually director of photography for USA Weekend. Outside of the hard news business, Matt is known as one of the hardest working wedding and portrait photographers in the country. Photo District News included Matt in its “15 Hottest Wedding Portfolios in America” issue.

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Assistant Director of Education, Photography
Brian Tetrault
Brian started his freelance photography career in California working for high-end residential real estate agencies and corporate architectural firms. While in Los Angeles, he also co-founded a cooperative offering photography, web design and graphic design services to small business owners. In LA, he also received certified training in the Leaf Digital systems and software. In late 2005, Brian relocated to the Boston area to perform contract work for Jupiter Images Stock Corporation. Currently, he specializes in Photoshop postproduction work, photo illustration, stock imaging and multimedia for web marketing.

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Director,
Artist in Residence:
Lou Jones
Lou is one of Boston’s most diverse photographers. He specializes in photo illustration and location photography for corporate, advertising and collateral projects. His clients include Nike, FedEx, KLM, Met Life and Fortune magazine. He spent much time in the 1980s on CODELs (Congressional Delegations), photographing government, military and guerrilla leaders in Central America. The end of the decade brought a photo essay on Perestroika and the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 1990, Lou was commissioned by the Museum of Afro-American History to document women of success and influence. The resulting exhibition, Sojourner’s Daughters, was highly acclaimed by the fine art community. His images have been exhibited in galleries throughout the country, including the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York; and the Museum of Afro-American History in Boston. Among his personal photographic projects is a five-year odyssey documenting men and women on death row in the US.

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Artist in Residence
Arthur Rainville

Arthur has taught portraiture professionally on three continents, inspiring the budding or seasoned photographer for 25 years - he has launched many notable photographers of our time.

Sought after for Keynote presentations at national conventions, Arthur always offers his unique brand of success – from the Art and the Heart. His weeklong classes at Texas School, West Coast School, New England Institute and Image Explorations in Victoria, Canada are sellouts year after year.

The Professional Photographers of America has bestowed him with the degrees of Master of Photography, Photographic Craftsman, Board Certified and he is one of their esteemed Approved Photographic Instructors. He is a prolific author with three published books on the creative spirit and numerous articles yearly in national magazines. Arthur continues to spread the word that style matters. Besides being a noted touring lecturer he has Fine Art work being shown throughout the United States, South America and Europe. Having been called… ‘one of photography’s premier creative minds,’ he currently offers private consultations and enrichment workshops throughout the Americas and European destinations. His time is devoted and divided between personal portrait commissions, private consultancy and education and his on-going experiential art studies.

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Ron Aira

Ron is a commercial photographer specializing in advertising and editorial photography. Based in Washington, DC, his work has appeared in Essence, Glamour, Forbes and Washingtonian magazines. He divides his time between commercial work and personal photo projects using traditional photo techniques and digital photography. Ron has a BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology.

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Randall Armor
Randall began his pursuit of a career in photography in the mid-70s by memorizing all 17 volumes of the Time-Life Library of Photography by day and driving a subway train in Philadelphia by night. Over the next 30 years, his career developed along several tracks: shooting society weddings and high school senior portraits in Newport and servicing corporate and technology clients like Charrette, Fidelity Investments, Graphique de France and Lotus Development Corp. From 1995 until 2006, he shot for Filene’s Boston digital advertising studio. Randall has been teaching photography for over 20 years, starting at the Swinburne School and the Newport Art Museum, and most recently at New England School of Photography. His thought-provoking street and travel photographs are shown regularly in the Boston area, including solo exhibits at NESOP’s Gallery One, Out-Of-The-Blue Gallery in Cambridge and Harvard’s Holyoke Center.

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Michael Bennett Kress

Michael has been creating images professionally for over 25 years. He began his career as a commercial and advertising photographer but after numerous requests to photograph social events, the direction of his career became very clear.

Winner of the Washington, DC International Special Events Society (ISES) award for "Best Wedding Photography" seven of the last ten years, Michael has grown his business to now include five additional full-time photographers with a range of styles and price points. While he has embraced new technologies over the years to keep pace with his evolving industry, the creative eye behind the camera has never changed.

Michael’s work has been featured in numerous publications including BizBash, Capitol File, Engaged!, Grace Ormonde Wedding Style, Orient Express, Washington Home & Garden, Washingtonian, Washington Life, and Women’s Wear Daily. He is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology with a BS in Photographic Sciences and is a member of the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International and the International Special Events Society.

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Robert Caputo
Robert worked as a cine cameraman in Tanzania for the TV series Jane Goodall and the World of Animal Behavior. Living in Kenya from 1976–1979, he shot wildlife photography and worked as a stringer for Time, Life and other magazines. Since 1980 Robert has been a regular contributor to National Geographic. He has won awards from NPPA Pictures of the Year, Communications Arts and the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation. His photographs were displayed in the exhibition Odyssey: The Art of Photography at National Geographic. Solo shows include The Horn of Africa, in Perpignan, France, and Recent Works in Birmingham, AL.

Robert’s photos have appeared in Geo, Natural History, Life, Time, Outside, Audubon, New York Times Sunday Magazine, Scientific American and many other publications. He has published two children’s photographic books, Hyena Day (1978) and More Than Just Pets (1980), and two photographic essay books, Journey Up The Nile (1988) and Kenya Journal (1992). Robert co-founded Aurora & Quanta Productions, a photo stock agency and new-media production house based in Portland, ME. He wrote the story for and was associate producer of the TNT Original film Glory & Honor. Robert is co-author of The National Geographic Photographers’ Field Guide and wrote National Geographic field guides on landscape and people and portrait photography.

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Geoff Chesman

With over 15 years of experience in weddings and special event photography, Geoff consistently brings a fresh perspective to ordinary situations. This vision, combined with creative passion and great communication skills, ensures great results for his clients.

In 2001, he took a position with a large independent school portrait studio in Rockville, MD, serving as their director of photography, responsible for hiring, training, and scheduling a staff of twenty photographers. Then in 2004, he joined forces with Michael Bennett Kress and now directs a talented team of six photographers as well as production staff as the general manager of MBK & Associates and ImageLink Photography in Bethesda, MD.

Geoff has won numerous awards for his wedding and corporate photography, has had his work featured in various publications, and is an active member of the Professional Photographers of America, Wedding and Portrait Photographers International, and the International Special Events Society.

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Lynne Damianos
As principal of Damianos Photography, Lynne has been providing distinctive award-winning photography along with photographic and digital consulting services for over 30 years. Specialties include architectural, product and people photography for business. Lynne is an active educator, presenting a wide variety of photography seminars to professionals, students and companies. She is a faculty member of the Boston Architectural College and Keefe Tech in Framingham. In 2004 she was a photographer- in-residence at Holliston and Framingham High Schools as part of a grant project titled Capturing Architecture Past and Present.

Lynne earned her BS with Honors in Professional Photography from the College of Graphic Arts & Photography at Rochester Institute of Technology. She is a national board member of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), past president of the Commercial Industrial Photographers of New England (CIPNE), and a Corporate Affiliate Member of the Boston Society of Architects. Lynne has received numerous image awards from Kodak, Fujifilm, ASMP, PPA, PPANE and CIPNE.

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Judy Davis
As a partner of Hoachlander Davis Photo-graphy, Judy brings an award-winning eye to the architectural and design photography environment. For almost 20 years, she has mastered all camera format types, from 35mm to 4x5 view camera. Her extensive understanding of perspective, natural lighting and shadow-light play have brought her awards from prominent associations, competitions and magazines. Judy’s work has been published in Interior Design, Hearth & Home, Washingtonian, Washington Spaces, Custom Home, Waterfront Home & Design and Contract Magazine. As chairperson of the Washington, DC chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) from 2000–2004, Judy worked hard to advance the profile and professionalism of photographers. She also maintains membership in the professional organizations of ASMP, the National Building Museum, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) and American Institute of Architects (Affiliate Member).

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Paul Dube

Paul is a commercial photographer based on the north shore of Boston. As co-owner and founder of HOTSHOTS Advertising Photography, Inc. since 1980, he has completed numerous assignments for corporate clients in the Boston area including HASBRO, OSRAM Sylvania, Dunkin'Donuts, NEC and BD Biosciences, providing images for use on packaging, print ads, trade exhibits and websites. He has worked in the field for over thirty-five years and currently specializes in studio product photography and location commercial and architectural shoots. Paul graduated from the New England School of Photography in 1972 and has lectured at Salem State College and North Shore Community College for the past five years.

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Jon Feingersh
Jon is one of the world’s best-known and most successful stock photographers. With a studio and staff located in suburban Washington, DC, his work is distributed by numerous agencies including Getty, Blend, Corbis/Zefa, Iconica, Masterfile, Image Source and their sub-agents. Every business day, the license rights to more than 20 of his images are sold somewhere around the world. Jon has taught and given seminars about stock production for over 15 years. He is a past president of ASMP Mid-Atlantic Chapter and one of the founding members of Blend Images.

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Jim Fitts
Jim has had an award-winning career in advertising, design and corporate identity. He has been a fine arts photographer for over 30 years and has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Jim currently holds the position of Executive Director of the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University. Recently, he held the position of Creative Director at Euro RSCG 4D in Boston. Prior to that, he was Creative Director for Monster.com. Jim has received numerous regional and national advertising and design awards, including Hatch awards, Clios, One Show awards, ADDYs and New York Art Directors Club awards. His work has been featured in both Communication Arts and Art Direction magazines. He is also a recipient of the William Gunn Humanitarian Award and the Morton Godine Medal.

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Jack Foley

Jack began his career in wedding and portrait photography over twenty-five years ago. His attention to detail, organizational skills and ability to relate to clients helped him establish a successful business, creating client referrals and relationships with top hotels and wedding venues. In 1985 he purchased and ran a film processing lab, which fit well with his wedding and portrait work, eventually adding editorial storytelling, corporate marketing and commercial advertising photography to his repertoire. Jack is knowledgeable in all aspects of production from concept to delivery, for print advertising or web usage, either in studio or on location.

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Patrice Gilbert
Patrice’s photography has taken her to many places and fascinating situations. She does editorial and corporate photography mostly on location, focusing on executive portraits and music and travel portraits. Her clients include The Wall Street Journal, NovoNordisk, Washington Lawyer Magazine, Washingtonian, Fleischman-Hillard, Greenfield Belser Ltd, Versar, Inc., National Journal, Government Executive, American Lawyer Media, Duke University, Human Rights Campaign and Washington, DC-area law firms. Patrice also teaches an Editorial Portrait class at the Smithsonian Residents Associates Program and is a member of ASMP.

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Kevin Goggin
Kevin is a photographer and retoucher with a BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He started his photography career in Boston as an assistant for some of the city’s leading photographers. At the same time Kevin was exploring digital imaging and began to teach courses and seminars in Photoshop. His knowledge of Photoshop led to a variety of retouching work from high fashion to automotive retouch, and he worked on more than a dozen car campaigns.

Kevin is now based in New York where he does fashion and editorial photography as well as retouching work. Kevin has traveled and taught photography in India, spending four months there in 2007 at the Light and Life Academy in Ooty.

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Dave Henderson

Dave has been a freelance photographer in Boston for the past 17 years, working primarily for national and regional editorial publications and shooting everything from food to fashion. He got his first real claim to fame while working as a freelance photo assistant shooting a cover for The Boston Globe Magazine. Dave currently specializes in photography of and for the home. He has worked with clients such as L.L. Bean, Sears, The Meredith Corp., Fidelity, The Boston Globe Magazine, Boston Common Press and WGBH. Dave has images in the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum and the Puerto Rico Rain Forest Museum.

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Rick Hornick

Rick graduated from the Newhouse School of Communication at Syracuse University in 1974, moved to Boston in the late-70s and started his freelance business shooting editorial and advertising assignments. Since creating Hornick/Rivlin Studio with his partner Sandy Rivlin in 1981, he has specialized in photographing for health and beauty, home and interiors, portrait and still life, as well numerous national women's apparel catalogues and ad campaigns. Published works have appeared in the Boston Globe Magazine, Boston Magazine, Boston Home, Cooking Light, Elegant Wedding, Fast Company and Natural Home and Garden, and several books published by Rockport and Ten Speed Press.

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Tim Lynch
Tim is a Boston-based photographer who has been shooting commercial assignments on location and in studio for over 20 years. His clients include Coca-Cola USA, Reebok, Boston Acoustics, Bose, Eastpak Backpacks, Cornell University, Gillette, Fidelity Investments, Index Stock and AgeFotostock. After graduating from the New England School of Photography, he gained invaluable experience as a photo assistant with great photographers including Clint Clemens and Nadav Kander. Tim’s work has taken him across the US and around the world to 27 countries. As a digital consultant, he has assisted clients in the design, build-out, staffing and implementation of digital studios and workflow. But his real passion is his art. Tim transforms his photographs through the process of Polaroid emulsion lifts: delicately removing images from their substrate and transferring them to other surfaces. He also brings his images to life as 40”x60” prints. A recent adventure took Tim to Cape Cod as a still photographer on the set of American Primitive.

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Louise Michaud
Louise is the co-founder of Derby Studios Photography, Inc., specializing in wedding photography, including photojournalistic and classic styles. In recent years, she has moved the business from film and medium-format cameras to digital photography. Louise has received the Wedding and Portrait Photo-graphers International Photojournalism Award, two Kodak Gallery Awards, four Fuji Masterpiece Awards and many competition awards. Her work has been shown in many wedding publications, including Atlanta Bride, Boston Bride, Colorado Bride, Southern California Bride, Washington Bride, Elegant Wedding, Studio Photography & Design, Album 2001/2002 Award-Winning Wedding & Portrait Photography Professional Photographers of America Loan Collection, Volume 4, 2001 Professional Photographers of America, 1997. Louise received a BFA in Visual Design from Southeastern Mass-achusetts University. She was awarded the Master of Photography Degree in 2002 and the Photographic Craftsmen Degree in 2001, both from Professional Photographers of America. She became a Certified Professional Photographer in 2002.

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Douglas Plante
Doug is a picture/sound editor, broadcast designer and multimedia developer specializing in educational and documentary film. Experience as lead rep for Avid’s Nitris support team gave him a unique technical background in high-definition workflows, which has allowed him to educate and inform through video, interactive and museum exhibit projects. He has put these skills to use as online editor, colorist and consultant for over 50 programs for the Discovery HD Theater channel, an episode of NOVA (The Deadliest Plane Crash) and several prime-time History Channel specials (Bible Battle, Aftershock, and Last Stand of the 300). With fluency in Final Cut Pro HD, Douglas has spent the past few years at the Harvard-Smithsonian Science Media Group editing an award-winning educational television series for the Annenberg Channel and serving as lead multimedia developer for several exhibits at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

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Robert Rathe
After receiving a BFA from George Washington University, Robert jumped right into freelancing instead of grad school when, by chance, he was asked to photograph a presidential gala at the Wolftrap Performing Arts Center. With two years of performance/theatrical photography as additional education, he began focusing on corporate and advertising markets. He traveled extensively for clients including AT&T, Computer Sciences, Dell Computer, DynCorp, ExxonMobil, General Electric, GTE, IBM, NASDAQ, PEPCO, Unisys and Verizon. Robert has been active in the industry, serving on the boards of American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) and StockArtists Alliance (SAA). He is the co-author of the ASMP publication On Buying Photography and has spoken about both the creative and business aspects of photography at colleges, universities and trade shows.

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Doug Sanford
An award-winning ex-military/combat intelligence photographer, Doug’s work has been seen in Rolling Stone, People, Cosmopolitan and InStyle as well as in national ads for clients including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Coca-Cola, Hershey’s, and Discovery. An honors graduate of the Brooks Institute and recipient of numerous ADDY and Art Director awards for his work, Doug has recently completed a powerful piece entitled I.Hate.You. Letters to a Cheating Boyfriend.

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Robert Severi

Robert has more than 25 years experience shooting editorial, corporate and advertising assignments for a wide variety of clients including The Discovery Channel, IBM, PBS, United Airlines, Pepsi-Cola, US Marine Corps and Windham Hill Records. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as Washingtonian Magazine and Communication Arts Photography Annual.

After attending The American University in Washington, DC, and completing graduate work at The University of Missouri School of Journalism, Robert accepted an internship at a newspaper in Salem, OR, where he developed a passion for environmental portraiture. This interest has since evolved into conceptual portraits and photo illustration.

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David Sharpe

David is an innovative artist and, as a photographer, is always exploring new visual approaches and technical applications. He is known for turning abstract concepts into thought provoking images, and for making even the most mundane situations visually exciting. David is sought after by leading design firms, corporations and industries to make powerful images that reflect corporate identity and promote a cause, product or service. He works with photographer/stylist/producer Madeleine Harrell, who also has 25+ years experience in producing photographic images. Together, as Sharpe + Harrell Photography, their combined talents assure that attention is given to every detail..

David graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1971 with BA.

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John Spaulding
John has loved photography since he was a teenager. He worked as an assistant at age 16 and has been working around beautiful images ever since. He spent some time on the client side, working in the art department of the Chronicle of Higher Education and running promotional photography for Discovery Communications. In 2003 he left Discovery to focus on his freelance business. His clients include Mid-Atlantic Homebuilders, KSI, Toll Brothers Homebuilders, Chesapeake Life Magazine, Vectronix and Getty Images.

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John Still
John has worked for 22 years as a freelance photographer/illustrator/graphics and motion designer. He began his career as a commercial still-life photographer in Boston’s Chinatown, where he developed a highly textural and layered multiple media approach to image making. This approach has enabled him to assimilate and integrate digital imaging tools. Since the early 1990s, his work, though still informed by traditional photography, has been assembled and processed using digital image capture, 2D and 3D CG, video and motion graphics tools. His projects require flexible, dynamic imagery and designs that must be multipurposed from web to print to video applications.

John’s clients include 3M, AT&T, Advance PCS/CareMark, AutoDesk, Ball Corp, Bank of America, Canon, Geotel/Cisco, CitiBank, Dean Witter, Fidelity Investments, SC Johnson Wax, IBM, Intel, MIT MediaLab and Time. Awards include AR100, Adobe Digital Video Sampler Reels, Print’s Regional Design Annual, HOW magazine, Art Direction/Creativity, ADCB Design Show, Connecticut AD Show, Hatch Awards and ASMP Big Picture Show.

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Lauren Stockbower
After graduating with a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Missouri, Lauren worked for a decade both as a staff newspaper photographer and freelancer throughout Asia. For 20 years she has worked as a picture editor for various publications, such as The New York Times, Forbes, BusinessWeek, and US News & World Report. She now freelances as a picture editor for clients such as National Geographic Traveler and USA Today.

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Matt Teuten
Matt is a Boston-based photographer with extensive experience in event and documentary photography, newspapers and commercial projects. Some of his event and documentary clients include Diesel Clothing, the Boston Red Sox Foundation, Rafanelli Events, the Democratic National Committee, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Boston Globe, The Patriot Ledger, Boston Phoenix, Tivoli (Henry Kloss) Audio and First Act Musical Instruments. He has also photographed hundreds of live music performances by many of the music industry’s leading acts, ranging from BB King to Aerosmith. Matt has also received Alternative Press’ Music Photos of the Year award.

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Alan Thornton
Alan has been an editorial, advertising and fine art photographer for eight years, working with a variety of clients such as John Deere, Land Rover, Nike, Hewlett Packard, Santa Fe Reporter, Apple, TV Guide and the North Carolina Department of Tourism. His professional work revolves around editorial portraiture and portrait illustrations in the studio but focuses on photographing on location. In his recent fine art and travel documentary work, Alan has been exploring the mountainous regions bordering Iran and Iraq, making large-format black-and-white portraits of the Kurdish nomads there.

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Sharon White
Sharon has been a photographer in Boston for 20 years. Along with Bob Packert, she formed the commercial photography business White/Packert and has had the opportunity to work for many advertising agencies and companies including Bose, Canon, Boston Magazine, Citibank/Mastercard, Cole Haan, Sinar Bron, Putnam Investments, Boston Globe Magazine, Reebok, Shure Microphones, TDK Electronics, and Fidelity Investments. Sharon’s stock photography is represented by Getty Images. Her work has been highlighted in PDN and View Camera magazines and has won awards from the NY Art Directors Club, Studio Magazine (Toronto), CA Design Annual, PDN Digital, One Show and Graphis Photography Annual. Sharon has always been interested in the intersection of two- and three-dimensional planes and incorporated layering into the photographic process before the digital era and continues to do so today.

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Evan Wilder
Evan earned his master’s degree in photojournalism at the University of Missouri– Columbia. In 2003–04 he was a co-coordinator of the College Photographer of the Year and Pictures of the Year International photography competitions where he jumped into the world of high volume photo management. In 2004 Evan interned in the photo editing division of National Geographic magazine where he helped setup a system for digital photography submissions to the magazine. He continues to work on the conversion from film to digital photography at the National Geographic Society in Washington, DC.

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