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Gene Nocon is considered one of photography's finest master printers. His experience includes 15 years in London printing for Europe's top photographers. Gene has won the title of ILFORD printer of the Year, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS), founded the RPS Distinction Panel for Photographic Printers, and served as its first Chairman. He is also the inventor of the NOCON Photographic Timer, and the author of the books "Photographic Printing" and "Nocon on Photography".

His vita also includes advisor to HRH Prince Andrew Duke of York and to Linda McCartney. His printing expertise has also been sought after by Cecil Beaton, C. S. Bull, George Hurrell, Norman Parkinson, Barry Lategan, Terry O'Neill, Terence Donovan, Jean Luc Sieff, John Kobal (the Kobal Hollywood Collection), Paul Tanqueray, and Howard Coster. He has his own television series in England called "Nocon on Photography", and he has shown his work in a number of photographic exhibitions in London and Scotland including "Personal Points of View", and "The Photographic Print". Mr. Nocon has written for a number of periodicals in the United Kingdom and currently has a regular column in the U.S. periodical "Darkroom Photography".

Mr. Nocon is considered the first to popularize the principal of using f/stop increments, not seconds, for determining print exposure. By using a logarithmic measurement the photographer duplicates the way images are captured on film. The Nocon Timer, now out of production, worked on this principal.

Mr. Nocon's work has also appeared on British postage stamps.

Mr. Nocon currently resides in San Diego, California where he continues his activities in black and white but has added an interest in digital photography. He is currently preparing for a one-person exhibition called "A Body of Work" and is working on a book of the same name.