Photography

Cary Wolinsky
Consulting Director

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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Rick Ashley
Program Co-Director

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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Rob Van Petten
Program Co-Director

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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Tom O'Brien
Associate Director

Tom O'Brien has over twenty years experience in digital imaging, color management, high-end printing and pre-press environments. He is a specialist in color management systems and the integration of color systems in digital photographic workflows. Tom served as Director of Marketing and Professional Services for Kodak Professional's Systems & Solutions group 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.

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Morgan Howarth
Associate Director

During the last 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 graduated from Southern Illinois University with a degree in cinema and photography and opened a very successful commercial photography studio in Chicago shooting for all the major advertising agencies in addition to Sears, Lands End and Montgomery Ward. After 14 years in Chicago he relocated to Portland, ME, shooting advertising, catalogs, editorial and fashion photography for clients such as Timex, Cole Haan, CBS, Timberland and Reebok. Morgan was also one of the founders and principals of the Maine Photo Co-op, a non-profit educational organization offering walk-in rental color and black/white darkrooms, film and print processing labs, lighting studio, lecture series and various courses and workshops.

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

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Brian Tetrault
Assistant Director of Education, Photography

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 post-production work, photo illustration, stock imaging and multimedia for web marketing.

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Lou Jones
Director, Artist in Residence

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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Chris Alvanas

Chris is a digital photographer and photoshop maven, a sought after post-production 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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Randall Armor

Randall began his pursuit of a career in photography in the mid 1970s 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 to servicing corporate and technology clients like Charrette, Fidelity Investments, Graphique de France and Lotus Development Corporation. From 1995 until 2006, he shot for Filenes’ 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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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 & portrait photography.

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Judy Davis

As a partner of Hoachlander Davis Photography, 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, has brought her work awards from the most 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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Jon Feingersh

Jon is one of the world’s best-known and 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 the recipient of the William Gunn Humanitarian Award and the Morton Godine Medal.

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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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Jennifer Hudson

Founder of Perry Aslyn Photography and now residing in Boston, MA, Jennifer 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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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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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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Louise Michaud

Louise is the co-founder of Derby Studios Photography, Inc., a studio 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 Photographers International Photojournalism Award, two Kodak Gallery Awards, four Fuji Masterpiece Awards and many competition awards. Her work has been shown in numerous 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 Massachusetts 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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Robert Rathe

After receiving a BA in Fine Arts from The 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. Over the next twenty-five years, 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 body of personal work entitled I.Hate.You. Letters to a Cheating Boyfriend.

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John Spaulding

John has loved photography since he was a teenager. He started working as an assistant when he was 16 and has been working around beautiful images ever since. He spent some time on the client side as well, 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 & 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, AdvancePCS/CareMark, AutoDesk, Ball Corp, Bank of America, Canon, Geotel/Cisco, CitiBank, Dean Witter, Fidelity Investments, S.C. 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, including The New York Times, Forbes, BusinessWeek, and U.S. 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, 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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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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Yari Wolinsky

Yari is a freelance editor and filmmaker. His editing experience includes work on feature narratives, television documentaries, corporate videos and numerous shorts. Recent long-form work includes editing for the feature The Aristocrat, as well as assisting on two WGBH documentaries, Ape Intelligence and American Eagle. Other clients include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AARP, Aurora Photos, Life is Good and National Geographic.

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