MDIW Photography Workshops

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	Our experienced professional instructors include industry leaders from across the nation, including photographic educators, writers, and widely published and exhibited photographers in every aspect of the medium. Class size is small, student to instructor ratio is 15:1, providing maximum interaction between participants and instructors. We offer aesthetic, technical and studio instruction in 2-4 day intensive, cost and time efficient workshop experiences.


	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 High Dynamic Range photoraphy. Dan's workshops are famous for their energy, information and humor.
	SEÁN DUGGAN Sean Duggan is a fine art photographer, author, educator and an Adobe Certified Photoshop Expert with extensive experience in both the traditional and digital darkroom. He is the co-author of The Creative Digital Darkroom (O’Reilly, 2008), Photoshop Artistry (New Riders, 2006), and Real World Digital Photography, 2nd Edition (Peachpit Press, 2004). He has been helping photographers master digital darkroom techniques for over 10 years. He teaches online Imaging for Photographers classes at San Francisco’s Academy of Art University, as well as offering personalized online consulting, and leading workshops at venues across the country. His portfolio/article on Pinhole photography is published in the July/Aug 2010 issue of photo technique.
	SANDRA MENDEZ Sandra Mendez has spend the last 15 years 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.
	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 imagin and art criticism. A technical writer, researcher and editor for photo technique magazine, he exhibits photography nationally, with works included in numerous public and private collections. He has conducted digitial 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.
	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.