Edward Alfano has been shooting with infrared film for over 25 years. He began his professional career as a commercial photographer and continues to shoot commercially. A Professor of Art at California State University, Northridge since 1989, and currently head of the photography area, he acknowledges that the magic of photography still resides in his own work and he cherishes that "moment" when his students become excited by their own revelations.

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Steve Anchell is internationally published with his fine art work exhibited in galleries and private collections. His work has been in forty-one exhibits, including nineteen solo exhibits.

He has been a contributing editor to Outdoor Photographer, Camera & Darkroom, and PhotoWork magazines. He has written columns, feature articles and interviews for View Camera, Camera Arts, PIC, Shutterbug, PhotoPro, and Rangefinder magazines.

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Christina is an assistant professor of photography at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana. Her specialties are experimental and alternative processes. She received her undergraduate degrees in French from the University of Minnesota, painting and photography from Montana State University, and an MFA in photography from Clemson University. She has written three books--The Experimental Photography Workbook, Tutti Nudi, Reflections on the Reemergence of the Nude during the Italian Renaissance, and Alternative Processes, Condensed: A Manual of Gum Dichromate and Other Contact Printing Processes.

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Donald R. Anderson earned his MFA in photography at Ohio University. After a stint in the Peace Corps in Venezuela, he became the first director of the Photographic Archives at the University of Louisville in Kentucky in 1967. In 1970, he joined Louisville's Fine Art Department where he taught photography until 1998. He is currently teaching at Monterey Peninsula College in Monterey.

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Bruce Barnbaum has been working in the photographic field for more that forty years, and is regarded and one of America's top master photographers and printers, in both black & white and color. His photography expands upon the dynamics he finds in both nature and the works of man, relating forces to the sweeping forms that dominate his vivid imagery. Long an advocate of both photography and environmentalism, Barnbaum has produced images which convey an intense love for the landscapes which have inspired him for decades, much in the same vein as the great Ansel Adams.

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Michelle Bates is one of the country's best known Holga photographers. She loves sharing her knowledge through workshops and lectures, and has done so at Maine Media Workshops, International Center of Photography, Julia Dean Workshops, SF Camerawork, Photographic Center Northwest, and many others. Her book, "Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity," was published in 2006 by Focal Press.

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Melody Bostick and Richard Sullivan are co-founders of Bostick & Sullivan, Inc. Formed in 1980, their company has specialized in supplies for the handcoated alternative photographic processes. Richard, a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, is a photographer and product development specialist. Melody is acting CEO for the company. They both get great satisfaction and enjoy working with creative photographers.

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Michelle Bates is one of the country's best known Holga photographers. She loves sharing her knowledge through workshops and lectures, and has done so at Maine Media Workshops, International Center of Photography, Julia Dean Workshops, SF Camerawork, Photographic Center Northwest, and many others. Her book, "Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity," was published in 2006 by Focal Press.

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The cameras I build are designed to be the sacred bridge of a communion offering between myself and the subject." Tuscon-based photographer/sculptor Wayne Martin Belger handcrafts crafts intricate cameras inset with semi-precious stones, human organs, relics and talismans, each designed for his specific studies in pinhole photography ranging from portraits of expectant mothers, members of the clergy and HIV+ positive people to underwater explorations and elaborate staged narratives reinterpreting traditional religion iconography.

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Susan Ruddick Bloom is known for her fine art photography. She uses alternative photographic processes and digital manipulation. Sue has been involved in making art on the computer for over twenty-seven years. She holds a BFA and a MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at McDaniel College, in Westminster, Maryland.

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Dan Burkholder is recognized as one of contemporary photography's pioneers, first exploiting digital technology in 1992 to make enlarged negatives for platinum/palladium printing. His award-winning book, Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing, is now a standard reference in the fine-art printmaking community.

Dan has taught at the International Center of Photography (New York), The Museum of Photographic Arts (San Diego), The School of the Chicago Art Institute, The Royal Photographic Society (Madrid, Spain), and with many other organizations.

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Jill Skupin Burkholder is a photographer working in the bromoil process, combining the old techniques with new digital approaches. She has taught bromoil's painterly brush-and-ink techniques in workshops for groups including the Texas Photographic Society, the Academia de Fotografia in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and Photographers' Formulary in Montana.

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David Burnett was born on September 7, 1946, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He launched his photographic career in 1967 as an intern at Time Magazine while still earning a degree in political science at Colorado College. He went to Vietnam as a freelance photographer in 1970. Time magazine regularly published his pictures. Following the death of photographer Larry Burrows in February, 1971, he became the last photographer hired by Life. The famed magazine ceased publication the following year. He then joined the French agency Gamma before co-founding Contact Press Images with Robert Pledge in New York in 1976.

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Mr. Robert K. Byers, of Carmel Valley, California, whose black-and-white images have always had an appreciative audience, was one of the first members of Ansel Adams' Friends of Photography and served as treasurer for that organization for many years. A business advisor, attorney, and friend to many of the great photographers, including Brett Weston, Bob continues to shoot and work in the darkroom. Mr Byers' work has been shown in numerous one man and group exhibitions throughout the U.S.,Europe and Japan. His images are in public and university museums, as well as corporate and private collections both here and abroad.

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Linda Connor has been making pictures since age 10. After studying under the masters, Aaron Siskin and Harry Callahan, Linda set out on a voyage that has taken her to exotic places all over the world.

Linda's photographs appear in more than 40 prominent collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), The San Francisco MOMA and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

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William Davis started photographing when he was in high school and continued on into the University of Arkansas, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1944. Davis taught at the University of Arkansas Graduate Center and has been artist in residence at the Monterey Peninsula College and had one-man and group shows all over the US.

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Randy Efros of Phoenix, Arizona is a passionate Fine Art photographer working with traditional film based black & white and color mediums. He worked extensively with Cole, Kim and Brett Weston and was honored to be Brett's last assistant in the early 90's. His life is devoted to the continual creation of new images. Randy also gives private tutorials and teaches at a variety of workshops including the annual Weston/Efros Workshops at Hospitalfield in Scotland. A prolific photographer, his photographs are in collections worldwide.

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Dave Eichinger is a photography professor at San Diego City College, teaching everything from B&W intro to advanced studio portraiture. His specialties (and the courses his students seem to enjoy the most) involve working with infrared film, toy cameras, pinhole cameras, and creating images he refers to as "pseudo-platinum" (soft, warm silver prints that have a look and 'feel' of platinum). Outside the classroom, he is passionate about melding photography with travel. He teaches an annual summer travel course to Europe (this year, northern Italy) followed-up with six weeks of portfolio production at San Diego City College.

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Jill Enfield, one of this country's most experienced and respected handcoloring artists, is a fine art, editorial and commercial photographer. She has taught handcoloring and non-silver techniques at Parsons School of Design, The New School, FIT, NYU and ICP in New York, as well as in workshops throughout the USA and Europe. Her work is in the collections of RJ Reynolds Co., Southeast Banking Corp., Museo de Arte Moderno de Mediellin in Colombia, The Boca Raton Museum of Art and Hotel Parisi in LaJolla.

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For over twenty years Dan Estabrook has been making contemporary art using a variety of 19th-century photographic techniques. Recently he has focused on the earliest paper photographs – calotype negatives and salted paper prints – as sources for hand manipulation with paint and pencil. He balances his interests in photography with forays into sculpture, painting, drawing and other works on paper. Dan has exhibited widely and has received several awards, including an Artist's Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts in 1994. He is also the subject of a recent documentary by Anthropy Arts. He is represented by the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York and Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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Kurt Edward Fishback, son of photographer Glen Fishback and name-sake of photographer Edward Weston, grew up as part of the photographic community in Northern California during the 1940's and 50's. Mentors and friends of the family included Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, and Edward Weston. Despite his immersion in the world of photography, Fishback began his artistic career studying ceramic sculpture at Sacramento City College, the San Francisco Art Institute and the University of California, Davis in the 60's.

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Mr. Stephen Francis of Anaheim, California, studied photography at Cypress College and the Newport School of Photography. During the past sixteen years, he has created his niche by producing photographic images reflecting an artistic flair for clients such as The County of Orange, and The Nature Conservancy. Stephen has had work published in Irvine Ranch, California Land and Legacy; The New York Times; The Orange County Register; The Orange County Business Journal and The Nature Conservancy Magazine. His prints reside in several private and public collections.

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Kit Frost, is the Photographer and Director of Chase the Light Photography based in Durango Colorado. Before moving to the Southwest, Kit taught photography for 20 years in New Jersey. Her business combines teaching and travel. Kit's passion is the landscape, particularly the quiet landscape, wilderness areas and endangered lands of the desert southwest. Her use of the Holga Plastic camera shows an amazing mix of classic landscape and multiple imagery.

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Jennifer Loomis is a pioneer in fine art maternity photography, best known for her groundbreaking work with the pregnant nude and for helping society redefine the image of the pregnant female form. Over the past 13 years, Jennifer has photographed more than 1,200 women and their families, from welfare mothers to the wives of celebrities. She is one of the only maternity photographers who has successfully combined a previous career in photojournalism with fine art photography.

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Ford Lowcock is a Professor of Photography at Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, California teaching everything from beginning 4x5 and studio lighting techniques, to advanced studio work using professional digital capture backs, to zone system, to portfolio development and business practices.

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Daniel Marlos, is a Los Angeles based artist whose primary media of expression are photography, film and installation. For nearly 25 years, he has turned his cameras toward the people and architecture of Los Angeles, constructing an intimate portrait of the city through its buildings and their denizens. His latest body of work is even closer to home, focusing on his house and yard, revealing beauty through the mundane and domestic situations that surround his daily life and routines. He is currently designing the MTA bus station at Woodman for the Orange Line of rapid busses through the San Fernando Valley.

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Thomas McGovern has been a photographer for over 25 years. His work is in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. He is the author of "Bearing Witness (to AIDS)" and "Alpha Teach Yourself Black and White Photography in 24 Hours" and his work has been in over 25 solo and 35 group exhibitions. He most recent work, "Hard Boys + Bad Girls" recently showed at the Griffin Museum of Photography. He is an assistant professor at California State University, San Bernardino.

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Mr. McQueen's career as a photographer began when he developed his first roll of film in his bathroom darkroom at the age of 12. He succeeded in various kinds of photography, including portraiture, but his love of the outdoors-- "lonely places" in his words-has been the inspiration for most of his award winning photographs. Stan works in both color and black and white. Much of his best work has been done in Infrared because that medium provides that extra haunting effect.

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For over thirty years Ray McSavaney has explored various aspects of photography within the bounds of traditional cameras and darkroom. His love of the natural environment has resulted in an ongoing project on the Western landscape. His previous career in urban planning resulted in projects in an abandoned tire factory and other industrial sites, urban renewal construction in downtown Los Angeles, portraits of people on Broadway and Melrose, and an extensive project involving ancient structures in the Southwest. Other projects include a series of botanical studies.

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Ann Mitchell received her BFA in Photography from Art Center College of Design and worked as an award-winning advertising and editorial photographer for over a decade. She then left commercial photography to pursue her own imagery, concentrating on urban landscapes and structures. In 1997 she completed her MFA from Claremont Graduate University and is currently Associate Professor of Art, and Photography Program Coordinator at Long Beach City College.

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Ms. Elizabeth Opalenik of Oakland, California has had her work shown at over 60 exhibitions internationally and in museum gallery and private collections throughout the world. A sought after figure, Ms. Opalenik leads figure and alternative process workshops in California, Provence, Tuscany, Mexico, barges in Burgundy and also conducts classes for some of the most popular institutions in the world, including the Maine Photographic Workshops and Santa Fe Workshops and The British Guild of Portrait Photographers. Her work has been profiled in most major photographic publications and most recently she was featured in Zoom Magazine's 30-year anniversary issue.

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Ted Orland lives in Santa Cruz, California, and pursues parallel careers in teaching, writing & photography. He served as Ansel Adams' Assistant in the 1970's, taught at Adams' annual Yosemite Workshop for fifteen years, and currently teaches photography at Cabrillo College.

Ted is co-author (with David Bayles) of the classic artists' survival guide, Art & Fear, and author of its recent companion piece, The View From The Studio Door. (He's also the creator of the delightfully subversive Photographic Truths poster.)

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Tom Persinger is a photographer, writer, curator, and the founder of F295. F295 is an international organization with more than 2,000 members that believes in the value of a heterogeneous photographic approach; one in which digital, analog, historic, and self-made methods are employed and combined in the creation of a new "21st Century Photography."

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Mr. Jan Pietrzak, of New Mexico, is a Photographer / Handcoated printmaker. He has taught photography at Glendale College in Southern California and the University of California at Santa Cruz. Mr. Pietrzak has trained under Ansel Adams, John Sexton, Henry Gilpin and many other fine photographers. Mr. Pietrzak's work is part of the permanent collection of the Polaroid Corporation, the Platypus Group Portfolios and many other collections.

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Lynn Radeka has traveled and photographed the American West and Southwest since the late 1960's. Early in his career he had the fortuitous opportunity to have his work critiqued and encouraged by several of his inspirations including Ansel Adams and Wynn Bullock.

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Dr. Tim Rudman is well known as an accomplished photographer, master printer and authority on darkroom techniques as well as a regular writer and lecturer. He has conducted workshops on printing and toning techniques in Britain, Spain, Australia and USA.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, The British Professional Photographer's Association and of The Royal Photographic Society in Great Britain, where he sits on the Society's Distinctions Panel for Visual Arts and is the Chairman of its Distinctions Panel for Photographic Printing.

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Ryuijie was born in Otaru, Japan in 1950. As a young child he moved with his family to the US and subsequently lived in many places; from Hawaii to New Hampshire, and again in Japan, until his father retired from the military. Throughout his childhood, Ryuijie showed a serious inclination to the arts. This interest began to materialize during his military service. While stationed in Guam, Ryuijie learned underwater photography while pursuing his long time interest in scuba diving. After his tour, he came back to the Monterey Peninsula, in California, where he attended college and began a successful career in lithography.

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Stephen Schafer, "Schaf" founded his photographic studio, Schaf Photo, in 1990. Specializing in film photography in both color and black & white, he has also mastered infrared photography techniques. Schaf's photography projects have allowed him to travel the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia; photographing, producing slide presentations, and teaching photography around the world. Schaf received his technical education from the renowned Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara. For his personal work, he started shooting black and white infrared film in 1987 and has been creating documentary and artistic exhibits in this medium ever since.

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Mark Osterman and France Scully Osterman established Scully & Osterman in 1991. Through extensive primary research and practical application, the Ostermans have evolved as historians, teachers and modern masters of historic photographic processes. They are especially known for their work with the wet-plate collodion process as artists and teachers.

Located in Rochester, NY, Mark is Photographic Process Historian for the Center for teh Legacy of Photography at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film; France works and teaches in their skylight studio. Both are represented by Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC and Tilt Gallery, Phoenix, AZ.

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Mr. John Sexton of Carmel Valley, California is a respected photographer, master printmaker and workshop instructor. He is best known for his luminous, quiet, black and white photographs of the natural environment and he has recently been exploring the aesthetics of humankind's technology.

His photographs are included in permanent collections, exhibitions, and publications throughout the world. His work has been featured on the CBS "Sunday Morning" show with Charles Kuralt, and on the MacNeil Lehrer News Hour.

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Ms. Norma C. Smith is both an artist and an educator who has been working in the field of photography for over 30 years. She has also written many articles on various aspects of photography including a treatise on platinum/palladium printing and a column for Petersen's Photographic on darkroom basics. As an educator, she teaches workshops in darkroom techniques, platinum/palladium printing, handcoloring of black and white photographs and basic photography.

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Harvey Stein is a professional photographer, teacher, lecturer, author and curator based in New York City. He currently teaches at the International Center of Photography. Stein is a frequent lecturer on photography both in the United States and abroad. He is the Director of Photography at Umbrella Arts Gallery, located in the East Village of Manhattan. He has also been a member of the faculty of the School of Visual Arts, New School University, Drew University, Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Bridgeport.

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Mary Virginia Swanson makes it her goal to help photographers find the strengths in their work and identify appreciative audiences for their prints, exhibitions, editorial and licensing placement. Swanson has a diverse professional background, having coordinated educational, publication and exhibitions programs for a wide range of institutions and businesses in our field and is considered an expert in the area of marketing and licensing fine art.

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Marc Valesella started taking pictures in 1975 after meeting Guy Bourdin. He learned black and white printing from 1977-1979 under the guidance of Jeanloup Sief while living in France. Marc moved to Los Angeles in 1986 and started to work with large format cameras. From 1995 to present, he completed extensive research on high definition printing with small and medium format cameras using highly customized enlarging systems. Marc currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

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Kim Weston is an accomplished Fine Art, Black and White photographer and the son of Cole Weston. Kim and his wife Gina live in his grandfather Edward Weston's original home at Wildcat Hill in Carmel, CA, built in 1938. Kim learned photography by watching his father, Cole, printing Edward Weston's negatives. He was also fortunate enough to work with his uncle Brett for 15 years as an assistant, learning about all aspects of photography and darkroom construction.

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Born in England, and raised in South Africa, Maggi Weston initially came to the United States to perform on the New York stage. It was through this early love of theater that she first met Cole Weston, the son of Edward. The two were married and had a son, Matthew. After twelve years, they divorced, and shortly afterward, she took the bold step of opening a gallery in Carmel. Maggi's close friendship with Ansel Adams placed her in a unique position as his exclusive dealer, a circumstance which was of great help in establishing the gallery which is still known today as a leader in the field.

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Mr. Huntington Witherill, of Monterey, California, is a fine art photographer/printer who in recent years has forged important links between chemical based and digital photography. He has studied under such notables as Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Steve Crouch and Al Weber. He was the recipient of the Artist of the Year award, presented by the Center for Photographic Art. Mr. Witherill has continued to teach photography for a variety of institutions and workshop programs throughout the US, including the University of California, The Friends of Photography, and The Ansel Adams Gallery.

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Brent Wood graduated from Brooks Institute of Photography in 1977. He majored in portraiture with a minor in color theory. He started my photographic career in 1978 as the chief photographer and studio manager for O'Connor Photography located in Santa Barbara California. While there, he managed the studio and performed as the chief photographer; my photographic duties included weddings, studio portraiture and school photography.

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