Daniel B. Anderson

Daniel is a photographer whose ongoing personal work is primarily dedicated to the landscape in its many forms. For years he has used an 8 x 10 view camera and recently has used high resolution digital capture to create photographs of exquisite artistry and sensitivity. He has photographed widely in Wisconsin’s Door County, the American West, England, Scotland, Ireland, Iceland and Italy. His work is primarily concerned with natural scenery, and his camera has captured both the high drama of storms and vast panoramas, as well as the delicacy of intimate details.

Barbara Brundege

Barbara A. Brundge’s work has been featured by The National Geographic Society, Equinox, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, National Audubon Society, Outdoor Photographer, View Camera, and Wilderness. She is a former Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology and has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has spoken about her work at the United Nations and for the National Park Service and has published articles in Outdoor Photographer, Equinox and Smithsonian.

Brundege has conducted over 300 photographic tours and workshops, teaching photographic skills related to nature photography in wilderness areas and state and national parks. Her travels have taken her throughout the United States, including Hawaii and Alaska, as well as to Europe, Indonesia, and Japan. While working as a photojournalist, she lived for extended periods with Baffin Island Eskimos and Navajos. Brundege works with large format cameras.

Dan Burkholder

Dan Burkholder has been teaching digital imaging workshops for 15 years at venues including The School of the Art Institute, Chicago; The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego; The Royal Photographic Society, Madrid, Spain; The International Center of Photography, New York; Santa Fe Workshops; Anderson Ranch and many others. His award-winning book, Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing, has become a standard resource in the fine-art photography community. His new book, The Color of Loss (University of Texas Press), documents the flooded interiors of post-Katrina New Orleans and is the first coffee table book done entirely with HDR photography. Photographs from The Color of Loss will be exhibited at the Preston Contemporary Art Center in April - June 2009.

Dan’s workshops are famous for their energy, information and humor.

Kathie & Lucas Cichon

For Kathie Cichon, a much loved family photograph of a small boy and his sister, hand painted in Chicago at the turn of the 19th century has turned into a journey of discovery and a passion for the nostalgic appeal of overlaying color in layers over a photograph. Holding degrees from the University of Milwaukee, MATC and Concordia College, she became one of the first hand-colorists to use traditional techniques on digital prints. Her award-winning work is exhibited throughout the United States and Europe.

Lucas Cichon’s photography appears in major publications and is displayed worldwide. His commercial clients have included Hilton Hotels, Office Depot, Sports Illustrated and the Milwaukee Art Museum. Degreed in business, computers and communications, he is also trained in photography, art and music. In addition to teaching workshops and seminars, his work has recently been featured in Professional Photographer and Studio Photography & Design magazines, as well as Taos and Santa Fe New Mexican’s Pasatiempo. He is also a columnist for RV Adventure and ThePhotoworks.com.

Since 2000, photographs by Kathie and Lucas Cichon have appeared in over 100 exhibitions and publications.

Ctein

Ctein is the first to admit that he is not the average photographer. His degrees in both English and physics from the California Institute of Technology have melded into a career as both an accomplished technical writer and a fine art photographer whose research and experimentation have earned him the reputation of one who can produce anything from Dye Transfer prints to the highest quality digital output. He has 30 years experience writing on such topics as photography, display and printer technologies, electro-optics, web-publishing and computer and hardware platforms. He is a Contributing Editor of Photo Techniques magazine and regular columnist for The Online Photographer. He has also written for Infoworld, High Technology, Photo Electronic Imaging, Camera & Darkroom and Photo Pro. His books include Post-Exposure - Advanced Techniques for the Photographic Printer and Digital Restoration from Start to Finish from Focal Press as well as numerous technical white papers for industry and online documentation. Ctein is also an artist whose credentials include a Kodak PPA Featured Photographer award and kudos as one of the best photographic printers around.

Mark Dubovoy

Dubovoy’s love of the technical aspects of photography is only exceeded by his passion to reveal and document the landscape, the extreme beauty of simple objects and the personalities of wildlife. He has focused primarily on the American landscape, but also completed a project photographing the animals of Africa. As a highly regarded technical expert in printing and photography, he is a regular contributor to Photo Techniques Magazine and the Luminous Landscape. His photographs are included in private and public collections, such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Monterey Art Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum, the modern Art Museum in Nanao, Japan and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City. Exhibitions include the University of California, Bank of America, Friends of Photography Ansel Adams Gallery, and the Colorado National Bank. Publications include the Best of Photography Annual, International Edition.

Sean Duggan

Sean Duggan is a fine art photographer and educator with extensive experience in both the traditional and the digital darkroom. Helping photographers master Photoshop and digital imaging techniques for over a decade, he consults with photographers across the United States and Europe on digital photography and digital workflow issues. He is co-author of The Creative Digital Darkroom (O’Reilly, 2007), Photo Artistry (New riders, 2006), and Real World Digital Photography, 2nd Edition (Peachpit Press, 2004). He is an Adobe Certified Photoshop Expert and a member of the Beta test group for new versions of Adobe Photoshop. In 2006 he was nominated for the Photoshop Hall of Fame.

Duggan teaches classes and photographic workshops at venues across the country, including Maine, Santa Fe, the University of Hawaii, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and in 2006, co-taught digital photography workshops in the Andes in Peru. His photographs have been exhibited at the Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel and at galleries and exhibitions throughout California. His images, technical tips and musings on photography, digital imaging and the creative process can be found on his blog at www.f1point4.com.

JD & Myriam Jarvis

JD Jarvis is an internationally exhibited digital artist, printmaker and writer. His MFA from Southern Illinois University (’75) emphasized video and mixed media. After a lengthy career that combined fine art and television production, he and his wife, artist Myriam Lozada-Jarvis, took a new path into digital art and printmaking. They are co-owners of their digital design and printing studio, Dunkingbird Productions. JD Jarvis’ digital honors include Grand Prize Winner, “Digital Creative Awards 2000,” Toray Industries, Japan. He is co-author of Going Digital: the Practice and Vision of Digital Artists (Thomson Course Technology, 2005). He is contributing editor for EFX Art and Design magazine; MOAC, Museum of Computer Art in Brooklyn, NY; and the Digital Fine Art website www.digitalfineart.com. He is also production manager for PBS affiliate KRWG-TV and instructs television production at New Mexico State University.

Myriam Lozada-Jarvis holds an MFA from Hunter College, New York, and BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York with emphasis on mixed media, 3-D design and painting. Today she explains that she and husband JD are traditionally trained artists who since 1994 have explored digital tools in the making of fine art.. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the southwest, New York and internationally in both solo and juried group exhibitions. She continues to experiment and expand the parameters of her artwork, having recently completed a body of work on a specially designed “satin” fabric. Lozada-Jarvis has taught art at the collegiate level in New York and New Mexico, most recently at Dona Ana Community College.

Allen Kuhlow

Allen Kuhlow is a veteran photography educator, having taught high school photography and at the University of California, Santa Cruz Extension. He is also a workshop leader for Summit Photographic Workshops and workshop instructor assisting Barbara Brundege. He has photographed the American environment for over 30 years, and his images have been published in Audubon and Mono Lake Committee calendars, by the University of California Press in Storm Over Mono, and in magazines including Pacific Discovery, American Health, Sierra Club, Sunset and Alaska Airlines.

Kuhlow has traveled extensively throughout the United States and photographs internationally, including Europe, Canada, Mexico and China. His recent photographs include those taken on travels to Japan in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Sandra Mendez

Sandra Mendez has spent the last 15years as a photography instructor in the Chicago region. She shares her passion for the art of photography with her students. Mendez specializes in fine art photography, and her work has evolved from assemblages created as still lives to the narrative montage work she is currently producing. Not only has her work become more sophisticated and provocative in content, she has also incorporated new technology to enhance her message of life’s continuum.

Mendez holds a MA from Governors State University, IL. She is Chairperson of the Prairie State College Photographic Studies Advisory Committee. Her work is exhibited across the country, including the Inaugural exhibition at the Preston Contemporary Art Center, July 2008.

Norman Phillips

Born in London, England, Norman Phillips has been a United States resident since 1982. He has presented seminars and workshops in this country and in the United Kingdom and has served as judge for national and international print competitions. He is a frequent contributor to magazines and newsletters, including Rangefinder, Professional Image Maker, Master Photographer and WPPI Monthly. He has created instructional videos, manuals, and eight books for Amherst Media: Lighting Techniques for High Key Portrait Photography, Lighting Techniques for Low Key Portrait Photography, Wedding and Portrait Photographers Legal Handbook, Professional Posing Techniques for Wedding and Portrait Photographers, Advanced Studio Lighting Techniques, Master Posing Guide for Children's Portrait Photography, Lighting and posing Techniques for Photographing Women and Lighting Techniques for Middle Key Portrait Photography.

Phillips’ photographic images have won numerous special awards, including Best of Show and First Awards in national and international competitions. He was named International Photographer of the Year by SWPP in 2001 and 2003 and has photographs in the World Council of Professional Photography Traveling Exhibit. He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from both WPPI and SWPP. Since 1983, he has owned and operated Norman Phillips of London Photography in Highland Park IL. He has served three terms as president of the Chicagoland Professional Photographers Association.

Paul Schranz

Paul Schranz is Professor of Art Emeritus, Governors State University, IL. He holds degrees in art (photography) from Ohio University and Northern Illinois University and spent 30 years teaching upper level and graduate studies in photography, digital imaging and art criticism. A technical writer, researcher and contributing editor for Photo Techniques magazine, he exhibits photography nationally, with works included in numerous public and private collections. He has conducted digital photography and conceptual development workshops for the Las Cruces Museum of Art and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is Director of Preston Contemporary Art Center and Mesilla Digital Imaging Workshops.

Uwe & Bettina Steinmueller

German photographers Uwe and Bettina Steinmueller came to live and work the United States a decade ago. As a creative team the couple produces photographs that earn worldwide recognition. Uwe is known for his expertise in photographic workflow, while Bettina offers insights into artistic expression. The hidden details of both urban and natural landscapes are the primary subjects of the works they create together.

Publishing in German, Uwe’s technical books have won awards. His articles are also published in photographic magazines, including Shutterbug and Photo Techniques. He says that the photographic result is of greatest importance; technical expertise is the way to get there. Together Uwe and Bettina produce Digital Outback Photo (www.outbackphoto.com), a premier digital fine art website.

Edda Taylor

Edda Taylor has earned a reputation as one of the most recognized names in photographic portraiture. Combining skillful use of light, texture, shadows and a gifted eye for color with techniques mastered in earlier studies at the Winona International School of Professional Photography, Forum du Maquillage in Paris, and Color Charisma Training Center in Atlanta, Georgia, she creates photographic works of incredible personal expression.

Taylor holds the degree of Master Photographer, Photographic Craftsman from the Professional Photographers of America, and is a certified color analyst. An international citizen, in addition to English, Edda is fluent in French, Italian, Greek and Turkish. Her singular style and photographic accomplishments have distinguished her both nationally and internationally as an honored recipient of both the Gerhard Bakker Memorial Award and the Kirt Lieber Gold Award. Edda is sought as a guest lecturer throughout the world and has recently taught photography across the United States, Europe and the Caribbean. She also leads workshops at Purdue University and Indiana University. Her studio, Edda Taylor Photographie, is in Crown Point, IN.