The Photo Center faculty has
At Its
Heart
professional fine art photographers who bring expertise and extensive teaching experience to the classroom.
To continually offer an exciting and diverse curriculum, Photo Center NW draws on professional photographers who teach in their particular area of expertise.
Instructors
Juan G. Aguilera
Juan G. Aguilera is an Industrial Designer from the University Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. With a pre-press specialty, he has been involved in digital publishing since the darkroom days. A self proclaimed color nut, he believes color is an independent language, with a specific grammar, spelling and intonation. Juan is a teacher at heart, having taught geometry and design with students ranging from middle school to adults, he currently teaches Photoshop, color correction, camera raw and digital photography workflow in the Northwest. He is a member of NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals) and has attended several Photoshop World events.
Brian Allen
Masters in Studio Art, New York University/International Center of Photography, 1989; AB, Cum Laude in General Studies, Harvard University, 1976. In addition to teaching at Photographic Center Northwest for many years, Brian Allen has taught at the International Center of Photography in New York, the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, the School of Art, University of Washington, and for the San Francisco Art Institute Summer MFA Program. He does documentary photography in Alaska and Seattle for architects, historians and artists, using both traditional and digital techniques.
Jahnavi Lisa Barnes, developinglight.com
BFA, University of Arizona in Tucson, home of the Center for Creative Photography. Studied at Savannah College of Art and Design and graduated with the Outstanding Student Award in Fine Art Photography from Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs. A master printer, she specializes in Traditional Silver B&W and photographs primarily with large format 4×5. In 1998, she attended a gallery opening for her work at Focal Point Gallery in New York. From that experience she was inspired to teach and began the Developing Light Fine Art Photography Workshops. Jahnavi’s photographic work is represented by Benham Fine Art, Seattle and Photography West Gallery in Carmel, California.
Michelle Bates, michellebates.net
Michelle Bates learned her way around a camera in 1991 at the Maine Photographic Workshops, where she first discovered the Holga. Since then, Michelle has shown work in solo exhibitions in the Pacific Northwest, Los Angeles and Israel, and in group shows in New York, Texas, California, and Italy. She has photographed for weekly newspapers, album covers, performers, artists, and many others. Michelle loves teaching, and has presented lectures and workshops on plastic and toy cameras around the US, including to the Society for Photographic Education, SF Camerawork, and the Creative Center for Photography. Her book, Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity, was published in 2006 by Focal Press. She also teaches at the Julia Dean Workshops in Los Angeles and at the International Center of Photography in New York. She is a member of Freestyle Photographic Supply’s Advisory Board of Photographic Professionals.
John Blalock, john-blalock.com
John Blalock has been exhibiting his photographs and working as a photographer in the Northwest for the last five years. His work often stretches the notions of what it takes to make a photograph, while drawing from traditional western art. Whether its unconventional pinhole cameras creating images reminiscent of watercolors or charcoal sketches–or pastiches of the painting masters set to contemporary themes. John teaches digital imaging courses, alternative practice, and professional studio courses at Photo Center NW.
Tracy Cilona
MFA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003. Tracy Cilona has been teaching at the university level since 2001 – B&W, Color, Conceptual, Sculpture, Installation and Digital Process – believing everything has photographic possibilities. She is currently the Art Gallery Coordinator for South Seattle Community College and bass player for low land high. Cilona is the co-founder of Damebuilder, a collective inspired by the interdisciplinary and collaborative ideas of the Feminist Art Movement that fused politics with the personal and art with intellect. She dreams about forming a feminist curatorial collective and getting her PH.D in Contemporary Feminist Art History from 1960 to 1990.
Carina A. del Rosario
Carina A. del Rosario earned her B.A. in Communication from Santa Clara University in 1991 where, to complement her journalism studies, she taught herself photography. She continues to develop her skills with the help of mentors like Seattle-based photographer and multi-media artist John D. Pai, and the instructors and staff at Photography Center Northwest. She also studied with National Geographic Traveler Photographer Raul Touzon and Eddie Soloway (both affiliated with the Santa Fe Workshops), as well as Magnum Photographer Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb. In addition to pursuing her own creative projects, she teaches photography, digital storytelling and media justice to youth. She freelances with non-profit and social justice organizations to provide them with a range of media services, including photography, writing, editing, training and consultation. She also founded the International District Engaged in Arts (IDEA) Odyssey Collective Gallery, which showcases visual art by emerging artists of color and those exploring culture and diversity in their work.
Nichole DeMentnicholedement.com
The Evergreen State College, BA, 2002 — Photography and Art History major. Nichole DeMent is a photographic-based artist, educator, and curator. She co-owned Rock|DeMent visual art space in Pioneer Square with partner Stephen Rock from Feb. 2006-2012. She was also gallery director at ArtsWest for four years during that time. Nichole has taught fine art with a photographic focus at regional institutions such as Pacific Lutheran University and Photographic Center Northwest. Her personal artwork in traditional photographic mediums and avant-garde mixed media encaustic processes have been awarded, positively reviewed, and can be found in numerous collections including the Swedish Medical Center Art Collection. Her artwork is represented at SAM Gallery.
Doug Ethridge, douglasethridge.com
Douglas Ethridge is a fine art photographer, video producer and writer based in the Northwest. His modern pictorialist works have been exhibited widely in the U.S. and published in both COLOR and Black and White magazines in the U.S., as well as in several European and Chinese photographic publications. He is represented by Verve Fine Arts in Santa Fe and Frans van Hove Gallery in Leuven, Belgium.
Bill Finger, billfinger.net
MFA, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2005. Bill Finger is a fine art photographer whose work is a re-imagining of movie sets that he worked on during his career as an Assistant Cameraman. Bill’s credits include such movies as A River Runs Through It, Days of Thunder, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as well as the television series Bones and Dawson’s Creek. His photographs have been shown in both the US and Canada and are included in the permanent collection of the George Eastman House Museum of Photography, in Rochester, NY. Locally, his photographs can be found at Punch Gallery and the SAM Sales Gallery.
Tim Freccia, timfreccia.com
Tim Freccia’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Business Week, Al Jazeera, BBC, Global Post, Neue Züricher Zeitung, The Age, The National, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, AP, Stern Online, TIME Magazine and a variety of other print and broadcast outlets. Tim was born in Seattle and began his working career as an Alaska fisherman at age sixteen. After graduating from art school in 1989 he has covered crisis and conflict worldwide. In the 1990s Tim worked in Haiti for USAID, PBS and various print outlets, then in North and West Africa shooting stills and video. More recently, Tim has covered the Indian Ocean Tsunami response, worked in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo to create a series of ongoing dispatches on the war and humanitarian crisis there. He also documented Haiti’s 7.0 earthquake in 2010, and has worked in Mogadishu, Somalia. Recently he has worked in South Sudan with actors and activists George Clooney and Mia Farrow.
In addition to his documentary work, Tim co-founded three full-service communications agencies, acted as Creative Director for an IPTV (interactive television) platform with Deutsche Telekom, and has produced still photography and motion pictures for numerous NGOs including the UN, CARE, Human Rights Watch, World Vision and the German umbrella fund raising organization Aktion Deutschland Hilft, in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Claire Garoutte
Willamette University, BA 1984; University of Washington, MFA, 1990. Claire Garoutte’s photography has been exhibited internationally. Her work has appeared in anthologies published by Cassell Press and Midmarch Press as well as in Art in America . She was the principal photographer for glass artist Dale Chihuly from 1991-1996. Claire Garoutte wrote and illustrated the book ‘Matter of Trust’ published in Germany in 1996. Since 1994, she has worked extensively in Cuba researching her second book. She has taught at Photo Center NW since 1988.
Aaron Gustafson, aarongustafson.net
Aaron Gustafson was born in Washington State. He received the Dean’s Scholarship and earned an MFA from Parsons School of Design, New York. He was an artist in residence at the Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada. He gained international recognition for his projects “Bonus baby” and “Freefall 4×5,” and received a 1st place award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Gustafson’s work has been featured in GUP International Photography Magazine, Poncz Magazine, 10×15, DIGIFOTO Pro and i heart photograph. His pictures have been exhibited at the Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China, at Trace Gallery, Cornwall, UK, and at 25CPW, New York. He is a managing photo editor for Microsoft Corporation, and is a member of the band Post Harbor.
Howard Hsu, howardhsu.net
Howard Hsu is a documentary photographer and multimedia reporter based in Seattle, WA. He has photographed at the local level as well as internationally in countries such as Japan, Burma, Taiwan, and China. His work has been published in news outlets such as PBS Frontline/World, the Oakland Tribune, and the Associated Press. Howard holds a Master of Journalism in Documentary Photography from U.C. Berkeley.
Kristen Imig
Parsons School of Design, Paris, BFA, 2000 – Photography and Fine Art major. Kristen Imig is a professional freelance photographer specializing in portraits and documentary photography. Her photographs have appeared in over nine feature films as set decoration. In the 2004 film, A Lot Like Love, her images are attributed as being the work of a leading character. Kristen’s work has been exhibited at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in her hometown of Boulder, Colorado, and in Seattle at the Priceless Works Gallery, Globe Gallery, and in juried shows at the Frye Art Museum and Photographic Center Northwest. Awards include the Grand Prize in the 2002 National Geographic photo contest, and an Outstanding Portfolio award at the 2007 Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference. Kristen is a Teaching Artist at Seattle’s non-profit organization, Youth in Focus, where urban teens learn to express themselves through photography.
Eirik Johnson, eirikjohnson.com
Eirik Johnson is a photographic artist based in Seattle, WA. His work has been exhibited at spaces including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and the Aperture Foundation in New York. He has received awards including a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in 2009, the Santa Fe Prize in 2005, and a William J. Fulbright Grant to Peru in 2000. Johnson’s work is in the collections of institutions including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Seattle Art Museum, and the George Eastman House. Books by Johnson include Sawdust Mountain (Aperture, 2009), Borderlands (Twin Palms Press, 2005), and Snow Star (Cavallo Point Press, 2009). His editorial work has appeared in numerous magazines including Dwell, Metropolis, the New York Times T Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal.
Dave Kennedy, davekennedyimages.com
Dave Kennedy has a BS Visual Communication from Western Washington University and works as a production artist and director in Seattle. Over the last eighteen years Dave has collaborated with designers, art directors and creative directors for such distinguished clients as Adobe, ATT, Boeing, DDB, Hasbro, IBM, Microsoft, and the University of Washington. Alongside his professional career as an art director, Dave has continued his exploration of the visual arts earning a second degree in photography, and studying filmmaking, lighting, design and design production. Presently, Dave is working on an ongoing series of staged psychological dramas, the most recent of which is The Twelve, a depiction of reincarnated Apostles as urban messengers moving through the city to spread “good news”.
Molly Landreth, mollylandreth.com
Molly Landreth is a Seattle based artist who explores concepts of identity and community through intimate large-format film photography and multi-media collaboration. She is also a working photographer who creates fine art, lifestyle and portrait imagery for clients nation-wide. Landreth has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Time Magazineʼs Lens Blog and in The Advocate for her ongoing body of work, “Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America,” which she continues to exhibit and speak about internationally. Landreth holds an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts, New York; and a BA in Studio Art from Scripps College in California.
Nancy LeVine, browneyesgallery.com
New York University/International Center for Photography, MA 2000. Nancy LeVine is an award winning photographer who travels worldwide on a variety of assignments. Her client resume includes Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center , Starbucks, and Microsoft. Previously, she was based in New York City for over 15 years where her assignments were focused on fashion and personalities; her work has appeared in numerous publications such as L’Officiel de la Couture (Paris) and The New York Times. Her book called ‘A Dog’s Book of Truths’ is in it’s fourth printing. Her work has been selected to appear in American Photo, The Photo Review, and ASMP’S book ‘10,000 Eyes’ as well as in gallery shows in New York and Seattle.
Spike Mafford, spikemafford.com
Spike Mafford was born in 1963 in Mexico City. He holds a BA from Pomona College in Claremont, CA. Over the last two decades, Spike has traveled and photographed in many places, including Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Spain, China, Macao, Italy, Greece and Japan. He avoids touristic views of these places, stating: “I’ve navigated the fine lines between art and commercial / editorial / travel photography by using my artistic instincts as my ‘true north’. … I am constantly looking for a way to convey dynamic tension and imply a mystery or scenario that goes beyond the frame. Composition is more important to me than subject and thinking visually is essential.” Spike’s work has been exhibited in numerous shows in Washington, Oregon, California, and in Mexico and his work is held in the corporate and museum collections of the Microsoft Corporation, Safeco Insurance Corporation, Verizon Wireless, The University of Washington Medical Center, Davis Wright Tremaine, Donna Karan, The Tacoma Art Museum, The Seattle Art Museum, and 4Culture-King County among others.
Joshua S. MacCracken
Joshua S. MacCracken earned his MFA degree in Photomedia from the University of Washington and his BA in both Visual Art and Psychology from the University of Miami. Over the past decade he has worked as a corporate and freelance photographer while also working as a guide and adventure photographer for a non-profit organization in Thailand. He is currently a guest lecturer for the photo department at the University of Washington and also teaches for Seattle Public Schools. His photographic work often combines aspects of performance and installation and has been exhibited in numerous cities including Miami, New Orleans, Seattle, and Los Angeles.
Lance Mercer
Born and raised in Seattle, Lance Mercer started photographing the local music scene at the age of 13. He graduated from the Commercial Photography program at Seattle Central Community College in 1987, and became a full-time freelance photographer in 1991. Through his involvement with the local music scene, he was invited to tour with Pearl Jam in 1992-95 as their official photographer. Subsequently, this work enabled him to continue full-time as a photographer for many other well-known musical artists. Mercer has photographed album covers for clients including Epic Records, Columbia Records, Capitol, Warner Brothers, Geffen and A&M. His photos have been published in Rolling Stone, Spin, Time, Vanity Fair, and Alternative Press. Also a musician, Mercer extensively toured and produced 3 full-length records with his band The Briefs. In recent years, his focus has again returned to his photography, and in 2006, he published a book of Pearl Jam photographs entitled 5X1: Pearl Jam through the eye of Lance Mercer.
Janet Neuhauser
MFA, Photography, The Pratt Institute; BA, Classical Studies, University of Washington; BA Liberal Arts, The Evergreen State College. A fine art photographer with over 20 years of teaching experience, Neuhauser has taught everything from traditional black and white printing to digital imaging to a diverse range of students. After developing a successful career as a freelance editorial photographer in New York City, she began teaching at the International Center of Photography and discovered her love for the art and craft of teaching photography. Since then, she has led intensive workshops at community-based arts organizations and taught high school and college-level courses across the country. Neuhauser maintains a studio in Seattle; her most recent solo exhibition, Red Hook Photographs, was held in Brooklyn, NY and featured a series of images taken in the Red Hook waterfront neighborhood over the span of ten years.
Bridget Nowlin
Bridget Nowlin, M.A. has been teaching in the arts since 1991. She currently teaches art history and is Curator of Visual Resources at the Cornish College of the Arts and is also the Registrar of the Monsen Collection of Photography. She curated the photography exhibition Outta My Light! Picturing the Processes of Photography at the Henry Art Gallery. She was on the committee for the Frye Art Museum’s photography exhibition Celebrating Women in the Arts and has worked on staff for the Henry Art Gallery and the Museum of Photographic Arts. She received her Bachelors degree in Photography from the University of Nevada, Reno and her Masters degree from the University of Washington.
Rosanne Olson, rosanneolson.com and bodyimagebook.com
Rosanne Olson is a fine art and commercial photographer. She has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Oregon and has taught workshops on lighting, portraiture and creativity at Photo Center NW, Santa Fe Photographic workshops and in her Seattle studio. She recently authored a book about women and body image titled “This is Who I Am – our beauty in all shapes and sizes” (Artisan Books 2008). Rosanne’s diverse photography background ranges from newspaper and magazine photography to commercial jobs. She has won numerous awards from Communication Arts for her work. She is represented by Robin Rice Gallery in New York and Benham Gallery in Seattle. In-between making photographs and art, she is learning to play the blues harmonica.
Ron Reeder, ronreeder.com
PhD, MIT, 1969. Ron Reeder specializes in palladium printing using digital negatives. In 2006 he co-authored Digital Negatives: Using Photoshop to Create Digital Negatives for Silver and Alternative Process Printing (Focal Press). Ron has introduced use of the QuadTone RIP for ultimate control of the process. He prefers large format film cameras, scans the negatives, assembles the image in Photoshop and then outputs the final print in palladium. Ron finds reality in photography somewhat boring. His current subject matter is imaginary landscapes of the mind. Ron pursued a research career in molecular biology until retiring from Seattle’s Hutchinson Cancer Center in 2002 to pursue photography.
Richard Renaldi, renaldi.com
Richard Renaldi was born in Chicago in 1968. He received his BFA in photography from New York University in 1990. Exhibitions of his photographs have been mounted in galleries and museums throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe. In 2006 Renaldi’s first monograph, Figure and Ground, was published by the Aperture Foundation. His second monograph, Fall River Boys, was released in 2009. Richard Renaldi is the founder and publisher of Charles Lane Press.
Beb C. Reynol, deltageographic.com
Beb C. Reynol (b.1966) is a documentary photographer and freelance photojournalist working for social change. His objectives are to work in favor of populations confronted by exclusion and censorship. He has concentrated his work in South and Central Asia, crossing borders that separate Pakistan from Afghanistan. While in Afghanistan (2003-2005), Beb worked alongside Afghan photojournalists for AINA Media, a French NGO working on contributing to the reconstruction of freedom of expression through education and independent media development. He trained, coordinated and assisted local photographers working with a UNICEF anti-child-labor photo project and divided his time between supervising the students’ post-production work and producing a documentary of his own called Forced Destiny. This photo documentary garnered international media attention, including a feature on a Canadian national broadcasting television program for Radio-Canada and has brought him several high-profile grants. Beb’s work is represented, in part, by the World Picture Network (WPN).
Keeara Rhoades, keeararhoades.com
Keeara Rhoades creates immersive video installations and digital interventions using photography, sculpture and sound. As a visual artist, drummer, and performer, her manifestations often hinge on subconscious action, desire, and the sometimes precarious state of human rationality. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently presenting a solo exhibition at Gallery 4Culture, titled Undercover Holidays; performing at the Seattle Art Museum’s fall Remix event (Take Me Out To Play); and drawing digital light onto a dancer in Susie J. Lee’s production, Swimming The List. Keeara holds an MFA from the University of Washington (2008), a BFA from Indiana University’s Herron School of Art, and a BA in Graphic Design and English Journalism. She teaches at various universities and centers for art around the Northwest. Originally from Wyoming, Rhoades has made Seattle home.
Jenny Riffle, jennyriffle.com
Jenny Riffle was born in Washington State in 1979. She received her BA in photography from Bard College in 2001, then her MFA at the School of Visual Arts in 2011. She was selected for inclusion in The Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography, published by the Humble Arts Foundation in 2009 and her work has been featured in the Photo Center Northwest’s annual photo book from 2007 through 2009, as well as numerous publications including The Stranger and Visionaire.
Patricia Ridenour
Patricia Ridenour’s photographs have been in Vogue, Mirabella, and Ornament magazines. She has worked with a variety of different fashion designers to produce innovative advertisements, including Seattle ‘s Darbury Stenderu. In her late teens and early twenties Ridenour was a fashion designer and was featured in the Seattle Designers Fashion Shows, and in many local newsmagazines and papers including the Seattle Times special fashion segments. She also was a professional fashion stylist for three years before choosing photography as a career.
Patricia Ridenour is an internationally published fine art and commercial photographer. Her client list includes Kodak, Thai Airways and Random House. Exhibits of her work have toured internationally. Patricia Ridenour also received a first place award for excellence in journalism from SPJ and first place award in the professional category from the International Photography Awards.
Leslie Saber, sabershots.com
With expertise in both film and digital photography, Leslie Saber has studied photography in Paris, France, Palm Springs, California and Seattle, Washington. Her fine art photography has been shown in galleries throughout Seattle and has won many awards–including first prize in the 2007 Kodak photography contest. Her work has been published in several different online and print magazines, including Sunset Magazine. An active volunteer and supporter of the arts in Seattle, Saber teaches photography at Photo Center NW in Seattle and Arts Now in Edmonds, Washington.
Gazelle Samizay, gazellesamizay.com
Gazelle Samizay received her Master’s in Fine Arts in photography at the University of Arizona and her BA from the University of Washington in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts and International Studies. She is a recipient of the Princess Grace Experimental Film Honoraria, the 1885 Graduate Fellowship in Arts and Humanities, and the Northern Trust Enrichment Award, among others. Samizay has taught photography courses at the University of Arizona (Tucson), Darat al Funun (Amman, Jordan) and at various institutions in Kabul and Herat, Afghanistan. Her photographs and videos have been exhibited across the US and internationally, and she is represented in the Middle East by Lawrie Shabibi Gallery (Dubai). In addition to her studio practice, her writing has been published in One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature.
Laurel Schultz, laurelschultz.com
Laurel Schultz received her MFA from the University of Washington in 2008, and graduated from the Photo Center Certificate program in 2004. Laurel lives and works in Seattle. She in interested in the natural world as a lens on human nature. She also works in bronze, iron and glass. She is greatly looking forward to her two month residency at the Pilchuck Glass School this autumn.
Hanita Schwartz
Hanita Schwartz’s work spans sculpture, photography and video. In her work, she explores varying points of her views of banal everyday objects, dwells on the potential to change their hereditary assumptions and meanings. Her work has been represented internationally and locally. She was born and raised in Tel-Aviv and moved to Seattle from Israel in 2000. Hanita got her B.ed degree in fine arts and art education from Hamidrasha College of fine arts in Israel, and her MFA from the University of Washington.
Erin Shafkind, erinshafkind.com
Erin Shafkind holds a BA in Studio Art from California State University Humboldt, and an MFA in visual art through the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. She has been in shows locally, nationally and internationally. She mainly uses the medium of photography, but is involved with performance, video and other experimental and relational forms of art. Currently, she resides in Seattle, WA where she teaches art in Seattle Public Schools and has written for Seattle City Arts magazine and their blog. Erin has taught with the Photo Center Northwest for their youth programs and also at Gage Academy of Art.
Laura Shoe, laurashoe.com
Summer Intensive and Digital Intensive, Rocky Mountain School of Photography, 2004; Masters in Business Administration, University of Chicago; BS in Economics, Santa Clara University. Laura teaches Photoshop and digital photography. She worked for almost 20 years in the corporate world before pursuing her passion as a photographer. She is a fine art photographer, and has a particular interest in abstract images and in compositing such images to convey complex themes. Laura’s work has been shown in galleries throughout the West. Laura is an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop.
Robin Stein, eidophusikon.net
Robin Stein is a photographer and interactive media designer. After receiving a degree in photography from Parsons School of Design, he has worked extensively with artists, arts organizations, and museums to develop interactive content for websites and exhibitions. As an artist he has shown work nationally, most recently working on a project tracing post-colonial migration routes through The Appalachians and Ohio River valley.
Seth Thompson, seththompson.com
MFA, Painting, 1987; MA, English and Film Criticism, 1976; BA, English, University of Oregon , Phi Beta Kappa . Seth Thompson has exhibited nationally and in Mexico and is represented by the Nelson Hancock Gallery in New York . His work as a color photographer is enriched by his experience as a painter.
Christine Tran, xstinetran.com
MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, 2008; BA, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, 2005. A recent graduate, images from Christine Tran’s thesis work, Homesick, have been nationally shown, as well as appearing in notable forums such as: American Photography and Lost at E Minor. Currently, she is back in the northwest and continuing to develop her body of work.
Peggy Washburn, peggywashburn.com
Peggy’s work has been acquired by major collections including The Bibliotheque Nationale de France, The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, The Ralph Lauren collection and Seattle University. Along with numerous gallery shows, both nationally and internationally her work has been exhibited at the Whatcom Museum of History and Art, The Fry Art Museum, and Museo di Fotografia in Brescia, Italy. Peggy’s work is represented by the Ricco Maresca Gallery in New York.
Adam L. Weintraub, adamw.com
Adam L. Weintraub is an advocate and promoter of the arts as well as a freelance photographer based in Seattle. His artwork is collected and published internationally and he is the author of Vista Andina. As founder and director of Photoexperience.net photo workshops in Peru, he has created bridges between the educational photographic communities in the US and Peru. His collaboration with the Martín Chambi Archives has helped to create an accessible archive and permanent facility for the outreach and education of Chambi’s photographic work. Adam is a former president of Blue Earth Alliance and member of the American Society of Media Photographers. He also serves on an advisory board for Photo Center NW.
Gina White
Gina White has been a photographer for over ten years, working as a freelance entertainment photographer, fine art photographer and as a teaching assistant at Photo Center NW. Her work has been published in Men’s Health magazine, The Seattle Times and The Stranger. Gina recently was the teaching assistant in master printer Dr. Tim Rudman’s 5-day lith printing workshop. She has exhibited at Photo Center NW and Studio Siena in Pioneer Square.
Matthew Williams, matthewwilliamsphotography.com
Matthew Williams, a graduate of Brooks Institute of Photography, is a freelance photographer currently based in Seattle, Washington. His work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, The Washington Post, MSNBC.com, The FADER, ESPN.com, Doubletruck Magazine, and zReportage.com. In addition he is an alumni of the Eddie Adams Workshop as well as the recipient of several national awards for his work on the AIDS situation in Thailand.
Mateo Zapata Zachai, zachai.com
MFA, Photography, Yale University, 1999; BFA, Interdisciplinary Studies, San Francisco Art Institute, 1997. Mateo Zachai has been a Production Assistant for Moving Images Productions in Oregon, and responsible for video and audio edits for such clients as Microsoft, Sony and NPR. He has been a teaching assistant in photography at Yale School of Art and an instructor for the Art-Zones photography program at Bellevue Community College. Mateo Zachai recently exhibited his work at Martin-Zambito Fine Art in Seattle, and his photography is included in the Prentice and Paul Sack Collection.
