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FacultyThe Photographic Center Northwest is dedicated to maintaining the highest teaching standards in all of its offerings. The faculty has at its heart professional fine art photographers who bring their expertise and extensive teaching experience into the classroom. To continually offer an exciting and diverse curriculum, the Photographic Center Northwest draws on professional photographers who teach in their particular area of expertise. InstructorsJuan 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.
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.
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. She specializes in B&W and photographs primarily with large format 4x5. In 1998, she attended a gallery opening for her work at Focal Point Gallery in New York and from that experience was inspired to begin the Developing Light Fine Art Photography Workshops. www.developinglight.com 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. For more information, visit www.michellebates.net
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. Cilona is also a practicing visual artist and a working "portrait" photographer working almost exclusively with children. She loves that you can't erase film and shoots with it daily. www.tracycilonaphotographic.net
The Evergreen State College, BA, 2002 — Photography and Art History major. Nichole DeMent's fine art photographs have been exhibited regionally and featured in publications. As co-director of Rock|DeMent visual art space in Pioneer Square , she concocts, curates, produces and exhibits monthly exhibitions of visual, performance and interactive artwork. She's worked within the ranks of the local art scene as Gallery Director for a large-format photographic gallery, photography assistant, and custom color and black and white printer. Presently, she teaches color and black and white photography at Pacific Lutheran University , is a freelance photographer, graphic designer and assists artists from all mediums with digital editing and printing at Rock's Studio. 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 PCNW since 1988. Tim Grey is a respected author and instructor on digital photography and imaging. He has authored or co-authored over a dozen books and hundreds of articles on topics related to digital photography, frequently speaks at major industry events, and is a member of the Photoshop World Instructor Dream Team. 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 SeattleÕs non-profit organization, Youth in Focus, where urban teens learn to express themselves through photography. Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington; BA, Documentary Photography, University of Washington. Dan Lamont is an internationally published multimedia photojournalist whose coverage of social and environmental issues has appeared regularly in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Audubon, Der Speigel, GEO, LeMonde and many other publications. His commercial clients include Microsoft, Costco, The University of Washington, The Ford Foundation and The Howard Hughes Medical Foundation. Lamont has served on the boards of both the Blue Earth Alliance and the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), is a past-President of the ASMP Foundation, and currently serves on the board of the University of Washington Communications Alumni. He has taught classes and workshops at the University of Washington and the Art Institute of Seattle as well as at the Photographic Center Northwest. www.danlamont.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 . www.browneyesgallery.com Born and raised in Seattle, Lance Mercer started photographing the local music scene at the age of 13. He graduated from Seattle Central Community CollegeÕs commercial photography program 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. Charles Needle is an award-winning, Seattle-based fine art nature photographer, author and workshop leader with a unique eye for design and artistic interpretation. His popular "Art of Nature" creative macro workshops and "Garden and Flower Photography" workshops have attracted students nationwide. He is the author of a new eBook entitled, Creative Macro Photography: Professional Tips & Techniques. A FujiFilm USA Talent Team member and North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) Showcase Award winner, Charles teaches over a dozen location workshops per year, including international destinations such as Giverny, France with private access to Monet's Garden. Charles' photographs have been published in Nature's Best and Outdoor Photographer magazines and are in private and public collections nationwide and abroad. www.charlesneedlephoto.com
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, 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 currently 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 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 PCNW, 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.
Vesna Pavlovic is a Serbian-born artist based in the United States. In 2007, she obtained her MFA in Visual Arts degree from Columbia University. She has exhibited widely, with solo shows at the Museum of History of Yugoslavia in Belgrade and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. She has been featured in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Tennis Palace Art Museum in Helsinki, PhotographersÕ Gallery in London, and FRAC in Dunkerque, France. Her published work includes Office Taste (2005), and An Idyll on the Beach (2001). Issues of taste, desire and expectation, the friction of performance, set in different contexts, are prevailing themes in her work. She was a visiting lecturer at the UW School of Art in the fall of 2008, and continues to be a visiting critic in 2009. She is a member of SOIL Art Collective, and currently teaches two classes at the Osher Institute at the UW.
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 refers 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’s pursued a research career in molecular biology until retiring from Seattle’s Hutchinson Cancer Center in 2002 to pursue photography. www.ronreeder.com
BEB C. REYNOL is a documentary photographer based in Seattle and Europe. For the past few years, he concentrated his documentary work in Central and south Asia, specifically in Afghanistan and Pakistan. His work has been exhibited with Forced Destiny in Seattle and Vancouver, Canada. He was awarded a GAP Grant from the Seattle Artist Trust in 2005 and was an Artist in Residence at the Photographic Center Northwest in 2004-05. During the same period he trained local photojournalists in Kabul, Afghanistan with AINA, a non-governmental organization. The project was created to rebuild the Afghan's freedom of expression through journalism. In 2006, he accepted an assignment to document a small community in the Guangdong province, in southern China, whose resources depends on the bamboo industry. This work can be viewed through his website: www.deltageographic.com Keeara Rhoades creates immersive video installations and digital interventions using photography, sculpture and sound. Her personal work explores the authenticity of human experience using diverse media to juxtapose artificial and real elements. She holds an MFA from the University of Washington, BFA from Indiana University's Herron School of Art, and a BA in Graphic Design and English Journalism. Rhoades is involved in collaborative works with the Free Sheep Foundation, recently creating an installation for the Moore Theatre, Inside Out event; mshe is a Digital Drawer for artist Susie J. Lee's production, For these Unclosings; and she plays drums in a local band, Prints of China. Rhoades teaches Photography and Digital Imaging as a visiting lecturer and adjunct professor at various universities, academies and centers for art around the Northwest. www.keeararhoades.com
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. Teaching credential for K-12 art, 1997; BA in Studio Art from California State University, Humboldt, 1993. Erin Shafkind has taught full time in Seattle Public Schools for the last 9 years. Working mainly with middle school students, Erin has also taught teens through the Gage Academy of Art since 1998. She has been in several juried shows at the PCNW, had a photograph in the Contemporary Northwest Women in Photography Exhibit at the Frye Art Museum in 2003 and placed 3 rd in the 2005 Camera Club of New York's national juried show. For more information, visit www.mustardworksstudio.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. LauraÕs work has been shown in galleries throughout the West. Laura is an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop. For more information visit www.laurashoe.com 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. www.eidophusikon.net
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. For more information, visit www.seththompson.com and www.nelsonhancockgallery.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. www.xstinetran.com MA, Media Arts, University of Arizona, 1998; BA, Photography and Literature, State University of New York at Purchase, 1990. Marisa Vitiello is a Seattle-based artist originally from Brooklyn. She works with photographic media, collage, and fiber arts. She has been teaching media arts for more than 14 years and is currently teaching for Lake Washington Technical College and International Academy of Design and Technology. She is also a Media Mentor for Adobe Youth Voices and Reel Grrls. Her artwork is the result of experimenting with many different materials and media, created in response to daily experience. Marisa revels in the experience of artmaking itself, and, as a teacher, shares the joy of experimentation and technical knowledge with her students. www.marisavitiello.com
Alex Webb, a member of Magnum since 1976, has published 7 books, including Hot Light/Half Made Worlds, Under a Grudging Sun and his most recent book, Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names (Aperture 2006). Alex has photographed for many of the world’s major magazines, including National Geographic, Life, New York Times Magazine and GEO. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Hasselblad Foundation Grant, and the Leica Medal of Excellence. Alex is represented by NYC’s HastedHunt Gallery and his work is exhibited widely in the U.S. and Europe at such locations as the International Center for Photography, the High Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and San Diego’s Museum of Contemporary Art. For more information, visit www.magnumphotos.com
Rebecca Norris Webb, originally a poet and journalist, had her first solo exhibition at the Ricco Maresca Gallery in 2006, the same year her first book, The Glass Between Us was published. That series, which explores the relationship of people and animals in cities, was also shown at the George Eastman House Museum of Photography and was awarded sponsorship by Seattle’s Blue Earth Alliance. Rebecca edited Alex’s 2 most recent books and teaches photography workshops with him worldwide. For more information, visit www.theglassbetweenus.com. Adam L. Weintraub will also be an instructor and guide for each of the 3 workshops in Peru. Adam is a widely-published, widely-collected Seattle-based photographer. He is coordinating the creation of a permanent archive of the work of famed Peruvian photographer, Martin Chambi. Adam has also been the president of the Blue Earth Alliance since 2004. His PhotoExperience.net coordinates the series of workshops in Peru. For more information, visit www.adamw.com
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 PCNW. 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 the Photographic Center Northwest and Studio Siena in Pioneer Square. 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. You can read about his most recent project Fragments of Nature here. http://www.zachai.com/ |
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