Photography Faculty

Cary Wolinsky - Program Director - Photography

Cary Wolinsky began working as a news and magazine photographer for the Boston Globe in 1968 while completing a degree in journalism at Boston University's School of Communications. By 1972, he was providing freelance photo stories to many national magazines, including Natural History, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Newsweek, and International Wildlife.
After becoming a contract photographer with National Geographic in the mid 1980s, Mr. Wolinsky came to specialize in historical and cultural assignments that require 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.
While working on the Kremlin story, Mr. Wolinsky negotiated a contract with the Soviet Ministry of Culture to bring the exhibition, Odyssey, Photography at National Geographic to Moscow; it was seen by nearly half a million visitors.

Mr. Wolinsky has taken a leading role in introducing quality photography in electronic publishing. He co-founded Picture Network International, an on-line, photography database system designed to serve established and emerging publishing markets. In 1997 PNI, was sold to Kodak and continues marketing photography on-line under the name PictureQuest.
Mr. Wolinsky’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.

Tom O'Brien (Associate Director) has over 17 years experience in high-end printing, pre-press, digital imaging, and color management environments. He is a specialist in color management systems and the integration of color systems in digital workflows. Tom served as Director of Marketing and Professional Services for Kodak Professional and launched a worldwide organization that focused on end-to-end digital workflow integration, software, and training services. He individually contributed to new color automation product introductions for Kodak's digital camera, monitor, and output software products including high-fidelity color management and large format printing solutions. Recently, he teamed up with Apple and provided technical expertise for their latest book, entitled Apple Pro Training Series: Color Management in Mac OS X.

Dave Henderson 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. Dave got his first real claim to fame while working as a freelance photo assistant, shooting a cover for the Boston Globe Magazine. Currently Dave specializes in photography of and for the home. He has had the pleasure of working with clients such as L.L. Bean, Sears, The Meredith Corporation, Fidelity, The Boston Globe Magazine, Boston Common Press, and WGBH. Dave has images in the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum the Puerto Rico Rain Forest Museum.

Lou Jones (Program Co-director) is one of Boston's most diverse photographers, specializing in photo illustration and location photography for corporate, advertising, and collateral projects. His clients include Nike, Federal Express, 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, the Museum of Afro-American History commissioned Lou to document women of success and influence. The resulting exhibition, "Sojourner's Daughters," was highly acclaimed by the fine art community. Lou’s images have been exhibited in galleries throughout the country, including the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York City, 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 U.S.

Alex McLean is a photographer and aviator who has flown his Cessna 182 over much of the continental United States and Hawaii documenting the landscape. With a strong visual understanding of regional land features, Alex’s work shows the changes forced upon the land by development. From wilderness views and seascapes, to farming patterns, housing developments, transit systems, and urban scenes, his powerful and descriptive images provide clues to understanding the relationship between the natural and constructed environments. In 1975, two years after receiving his Master of Architecture degree from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, he founded Landslides, a business specializing in illustrative aerial photography. Since then, his commercial client base has grown to include architects, engineers, environmental organizations, and urban planners. Over the years, he has amassed a body of work comprising more than 300,000 images. His photographic essays have appeared in numerous publications and he has contributed his images to a wide variety of printed media all over the world. Alex has published four books of his work.

Robert Caputo worked as a cine cameraman on location in Tanzania for TV series Jane Goodall and the World of Animal Behavior. During his residency in Kenya, from 1976-1979, he shot wildlife photography and worked as a photographic stringer for Time, Life, and other magazines. Since 1980 Robert has been a regular contributor to National Geographic Magazine, crafting text and photos for numerous stories in the U.S., Africa, Asia, and South America. He has won awards from NPPA (National Press Photographers Association) Pictures of the Year, Communications Arts, and the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation (The Lowell Thomas Award). His photographs have been displayed internationally in the exhibition "Odyssey: The Art of Photography at National Geographic." Robert’s solo shows include "The Horn of Africa," in Perpignan, France and "Recent Works" in Birmingham, Alabama.

Besides National Geographic, Robert’s photos have appeared in Geo, Natural History, Life, Time, Outside, Audubon, New York Times Sunday Magazine, Scientific American, and other magazines and books. Appeared in and wrote narration for National Geographic Explorer film Zaire River Journey. He has published two children's photographic books about wildlife, Hyena Day (1978) and More Than Just Pets (1980), and two photographic essay books, Journey Up The Nile (1988) and KenyaJournal (1992). Robert co-founded Aurora & Quanta Productions, a photo stock agency and new-media production house based in Portland Maine. He also wrote the story for and was associate producer of the TNT Original film Glory &Honor which premiered March 1, 1998. Robert is the co-author of The National Geographic Photographers' Field Guide, published in September, 1999 and wrote National Geographic Field Guides on Landscape and People & Portrait photography.

Emily Belz has worked for several non-profit arts organizations in the Boston area including the Cambridge Art Association, the Arsenal Center for the Arts, and SPNEA/Historic New England. Her writings on photography have been published in both artsMedia and Art New England magazines. Emily has a B.A. in photography and art history from Hampshire College and is a graduate of the Center for Digital Imaging Arts Professional Photography Certificate Program.