Armstrong, Frank 22 Lynwood Lane, West Boylston, MA 01583

"I am a full-time photographer and house husband and house remodeler (only my own home). No commericial photo work, but done so in the past. Started career at the Utexas Austin as head of the Student Pubs and News Service photo groups. Taught 3.5 yrs J-dept fac, UT. 7 summers assist. To Oliver Gagliani, Virginia City Zone Wkshp. Founder of SouthWest Photographic Works (with Bill, Allen, Jay). Founding member Texas Photographic Soc. As hired hand: photojournalist and specialist in photographing rare books, manuscripts, and decorative arts for facsimile reproduction. Am and always been landscape and social landscape large format photo’er. 8X10/4X5. Mostly B&W. Paisano Fellow. Widely exhibited. (Bio from 1995)

Lynn Baldwin 7202 Selma, Apt. 23, Houston, Tx. 77030

Email: Lbald93653@aol.com

"I am a retired (from earning a living) from a career in biomedical, editorial photography and managing a department at several medical institutions, the last being M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. I am now trying my hand at "art" photography and trying to get it shown." (Bio from 1995)

Rita Bernstein 518 Pine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106

"Until about 1990, I lead a very left-brained life: civil right lawyer/litigator and part-time professor at the University of Pennsylvania. I had a bit of a mid-life crisis and gave up the former (but not the latter) and began to spend increasing amounts of time with my camera. I also had two young children to whom I was tethered, and I naturally began to photograph them as well as our many domestic dramas. In one form or another these themes have continued to interest me, and I explore them in the contexts of other families as well as my own. I have also developed a freelance photography business which helps to pay the bills (though not nearly as well as lawyering did!). I work mostly in black and white and with 35mm rangefinder cameras (I am a Leica nut). In the last couple of years I have begun to exhibit and publish my pictures and have really enjoyed getting so much feedback on my work." (Bio from 1996).

Dave Bethel 2001 E. Haven Drive, Santa Rosa, CA 95404

Email: dbethel@worldnet.att.net

"Old, tired, fired from my job last August, launched on new career selling chemicals in the wine country. Born in Milwaukee shortly after birth was discovered, raised in Detroit. University of Detroit, communication arts, US Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY. Too many years in industry, but enjoying what I’m doing now. Just need to find more of it to do." (Bio from 1995)

Chuck Bowman 595 Linda Vista Ave, Pasadena, Ca 91105

Phone: 626-792-7711

Email: ChuckB9994@aol.com

"Movie director but long love for photography. Have been taking some workshops in recent years with masters like Morley Baer. Most of work is on movie sets of magnificent people who help put films together. Gear includes Canham 4X5, 5X7, 4X10 combination, a Hassey package, the Mamiya MF6, a 35mm Canon with lenses up to 300 mm, plus an assortment of other cameras including two Fuji 6X9’s." (Bio from 1995). Update, 1997: "Been in Vancouver, BC, doing an NBC movie, and, for the past five years, son Rob has also been working in Vancouver. Past year Rob has been in LA doing the X-FILES feature film!"

Eleanor Brown 3747 Chevy Chase, Houston, Tx. 77019

Email: embrown@ibm.net; EllieBrown@aol.com

"I am a freelance photographer living in Houston, Tx and am delighted to be a member of the zoners! My experiences with photography have been very raried to say the least!! I have done stock photography, selling my chromes to organizations such as the National Audubon Society, the National Wildlife Federation, Telarc International (compact disc covers!) etc. I have phased out of this branch of photography and, among other things, now do individual jobs for various non-profit organizations. I have done lots of color work in both landscape and wildlife photography, and I also photograph children and adults with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses at various activities such as summer camping programs, primarily for public relations purposes. I do have an ongoing portfolio in black and white entitle "Children with Disabilities." My real love is black and white photography, which I find to be both challenging and expressive. I use all formats from 35 to 4X5 – each for different purposes…

I am married and my husband Dale is an Obstetrician-Gynecologist. Our son, Stephen, is a resident in general/orthopedic surgery. Our only daughter Christine died during her sophomore year in college due to complications with her disability. (Christine was born with spina bifida and developed epilepsy as a teen). My experience with my daughter fuels my passion in photographing children with illnesses and disabilities, with the hope that my photographs show a little something of what that child is all about."

Jerry and Jeanette Brown P.O. Box 37

Fayetteville, Texas, 78940-0037

409-378-2012

email: jbrownj@cvtv.net

Jeanette Brown: Jeanette Brown’s photography began as a means of documenting designs in nature to be incorporated in her weavings. She took gallery management, fiber art, and photography dardroom courses post baccalaureate. Her background in fiber arts includes commissioned pieces for private physicians and the Southwestern Bell Corporation. Her photography has been exhibited in various shows sponsored by the Houston Photography Society and has been sold to private collectors. After several years of borrowing her husband Jerry’s camera for special design shots, the process of documenting designs in nature became an end in itself. The favored shots mix texture, design, and mystery. Experiments are in process so that future works will include fiber and photography. Cameras of choice are Super Graphic 4X5, borrowing Jerry’s K1000, and newly purchased from Jan Finegold, wooden 5X7 for contact prints. Since retiring from real estate in July 1997, and completing renovations on a 100 year old house in May 1998, Jeanette plans for photography to occupy considerably more time and energy than was possible before. Jeanette now owns the Honeysuckle Gallery on the square of Fayetteville, Texas.

Jerry D. Brown: I am a retired Southwestern Bell Telephone Central Office Manager. A Pentax K1000, a Christmas gift, began my photographic life. I had dabbled in painting for a couple of years, and this gave me a background for composing. Joining the Houston Photographic Society was the catalyst for my desire to become a serious photographer. Becoming friends with other photographers who never hesitated to tell me what was good and bad about my photography gave me the desire to study photography at Houston Community College. Fifteen years as a photographer and I have not been able to narrow my vision into a series/project. I still find myself getting excited when light falls on an object, whether it be the side of a mountain, the face of a child, a dirty window, or my wife. I use a Mamiya 645, an old 4X5, and of course, the same old K 1000 I started with, loaded preferably with Tmax 100 film.

Rita deVecchis 1 Christian Street, #48, Philadelphia, Pa 19147

Email: RdeVecchis@aol.com

"Photographer/Gallery Owner/Wine Collector/Wife/Mother/Grandmother/Traveler/Former corporate manager; fluent in French and Italian; Darkroom work confined to B&W. Schooled by Self, Nikon, and University of Pennsylvania; Workshops: ICP & Maine Photographic. Using 35mm and medium format, my passion is people. Faces. Nudes. Scenes that "move"me in any direction. Prefer ambient light. Enjoy capturing motion. Largest body of work: "Jimmy’s World," a photographic essay on the isolation of the elderly in our society."

Stephen DiRado Visual and Performing Arts, Clark University

950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610

Email: ddirado@tiac.net; sdirado@aol.com

"I’m married, 40 years of age and a hopeless romantic. I’ve been making photographs for 24 years! I’m a photo professor at Clark University, teaching (students have been teaching me) for 14 years! I live a life that is passionately submerged and dictated by Art through the medium of Photography. Everything around me: friends, family, and environments are all consumed by my curiosity and questions, recorded by my camera. I’m an inept commercial photographer but make sales through galleries. Here are a listing of some of my past and present portfolios: Bell Pond, 1983 Photos of a poor inner city community. Galleria Series, 1984-86 Photos of mall habitat; Beach People and Dinner Table Series, 1987-present, photos, dynamics of interpersonal relationships. I also make images (on my days off) of just about everything around me – dead or alive. On an average year, I’ll shoot about 2000 8X10 sheets of B&W film and end of with 30 or so images that came close to what I see. Recent photo interlude! 35mm, 3200 TMAX photos of Comet Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp! These days I’m hanging around and photographing sanctuaries on Martha’s Vineyard. (Updated 1998).

Phil Fleming 180 Venetian Way

Birmingham, Alabama 35209 (phone: 205-290-8167)

"OB/GYN physician, serious photographer since 1988, my interests now center mostly on landscape and nature subjects. I did do a documentary in B&W on the community of Jolo, West Virginia (famed for religious snakehandlers). I utilize all formats from 35mm to 8X10, but my primary toll is a 4X5 view camera for both large and medium format. I have a modest amount of work sold commercially through two stock agencies, and my work has appeared regularly on numerous calendars –mostly Browntrout. My latest project: a series of Organ Mountain posters. I don’t have any formal photography training. I learned primarily through the Ansel Adams books, John Shaw’s writings, and with the liberal help of people like Frank Armstrong (technique) and Bob Lilly (equipment). Sandy and I have a well equipped darkroom, but with the exception of processing my chromes, I rarely do darkroom work since we began using computer based imaging techniques." (Bio from 1995).

Sandy Fleming 180 Venetian Way

Birmingham, Alabama 35209 (phone: 205-290-8167)

"I have a BFA and MFA in photography, but I like to tell people that Philip read the books and then taught me, while Frank A. finetuned my printing techniques (via A. Graham Bell). I teach photography at the local community college and at the alternative high school. I have been known to push the motherhood thing a little by exploring the aspects of mother/child relationships through social issues. Now that that is out of my system, the children have raised me, one child is away at college and the other hoping to finish high school early and get away, I am working on some sepia-toned and black and white polaroid 4X5 portraits (reminiscent of JM Cameron), landscapes and 4X5 pinhold images. I shoot 35mm, 6X6, and 4X5. My door is usually open to wayward photographers (Frank A. and Allen R. will give me references) and have fed many a photographer a fine, green chili, cheese and chorizo burrito fresh from the kitchen." (Bio from 1995).

David Fokos 4328 Proctor Place, San Diego, CA 92116 Email: Beakman@netcom.com

(Bio pending)

Jan Goddard-Finegold 5002 Glenmeadow Drive, Houston, Tx. 77096

713-729-5496 (h); 713-770-3970 (w)

Email: JGFINEGOLD@aol.com

"I’m originally a Floridian who went to Penn in Phildelphia for college and medical school, then came to Houston for training in pediatrics and pediatric neurology at Baylor College of Medicine. Have stayed here since, on the faculty of the medical school, and married a widower, Milton J. Finegold, in 1982. Milt is head of the pathology department at the Texas Children’s Hospital and had three children who are now all grown. We now have two grandchildren in California (in fact, all three children have migrated to California!).

I’ve been experimenting with photography since I was a teen-ager, but really seriously in the past 8 years. We built a darkroom and art studio (one of our sons is an artist, and Milt does some watercolors) that also serves as a photo studio. I’ve been doing mainly black and white, but I also print color. I’m an eight year member of the Houston Photographic Society and several other photo organizations. I use 35mm, medium format (Mamiya 645), 6X7 and 4X5 (updated 1998).

Bob Grossman Grossman@bcm.tmc.edu

1821 South Blvd., Houston, Tx. 77098

(Bio pending)

Kenneth Hatch 8136 Ogden, Houston, Texas 77017

Phone: 713-641-5167 (home; this is also FAX)

Darkroom: 713-645-3410

Email: khatch1@swbell.net

"I grew up in West Texas, thought happiness was Odessa in my rear view mirror. Moved to Houston just out of high school and learned to fly. Taught flying in Houston then moved to Salt Lake City in the early ‘70’s. Ski-bummed, worked some as an instructor and charter pilot, and met Susan. Came back to Houston to work as a corporate pilot flying large turbo-props and small jets. I have been with the same firm for 17 years. I will retire if they ever discover I’m at the airport. My academic history was long and varied, ending at U of H in Eco. and PolSci. I have also spent some time in the art department at U of H taking painting and drawing, along with photography courses from George Krause and Bill Thomas. Frank calls himself a house husband. I’m more of a wife with some constructive skills. I design and build furniture, read, play with computers, cook, go to school and for the last few years I have tried to do serious photography. This is my second run at photography, I quit the first time to make a living. Most of my work is medium format or 4X5. I use an old TLR C330 for people and hand held. The P67 I use as a small view camera. The 4X5s are Toyo and Cambo mono-rails that I use in the field (Ihave a great pack frame from JanSport). I’m not really a landscape photographer, nor am I a people or street photographer. I can’t say that what I photograph always has an emotional meaning to me, but I want the print to have a mood or to work or more than one level. As Little Big Man said, "Some times the magiv works, some times it doesn’t." Most of the magic is in the darkroom. (Bio from 1997).

Simon James

Since giving up teaching in 1997 I have been based in London working as a

photographer and writer. With my photographic hat on I specialise in

portraiture for magazines and newspapers while the writing seems to be

gradually expanding from my original specialist subjects of photography,

education and haute cuisine. I’m also interested in history, both of

photography and general, and continue to work on more self-initiated series

of portraits, presently including one on great British chefs which is

provisionally titled "Knights in White Linen" and another on the changing

face of British politics.

Thomas Kachadurian P.O. Box 3434, Traverse City, MI 49685

Kach@freeway.net

"Although I have an M. A. in English, for 7 years I was art director and only photographer for a regional magazine in Northern Michigan. In November of ’94 I left that position to take care of my daughter (4 years old July ‘98) and develop clients of my own. Professionally I shoot mostly interiors, travel/tourism related images, and landscapes. I was the photographer for History from the Hearth, published in 1997. My first book, Views from the Sleeping Bear will be released this fall. I shoot B&W mostly of people and color of the land. I use 35mm to 4X5 but have a rather unholy relationship with my Mamiya 6."

Kerik Kouklis 2791 Stone Lane, Placeville, CA 95667

I am 38 years old and live in Placerville,CA with my wife and 2 daughters, ages 4 and 8. For my day job, I am a geologist working on environmental projects concerning the restoration of contaminated groundwater. Not surprisingly (since I am here writing to you all), my guiding passion in my life is photography. Sepecifically, urban and natural landscape, some still life and an occasional portrait. Platinum printing has become my sole medium. After many years of doing color and silver gelatin work, I’ve now completely focused on the platinum process and teach workshops on a regular basis in this beautiful mode of expression. While the 7X17 has been my main "axe" for the last 5 years or so, the 12X20 was only a fleeting affair. I also use an 8X10 Masterview and am currenlty building my own 8X10 point and shoot camera…While David may consider schlepping a 7X17 camera masochistic, I know how much time he spends in front of Photoshop, which I find to be its own brand of self-torture <g>. My 7X17 has given me a window on the world that I now cannot imagine being without. Masochistic?? Not! Working for a living – now THERE’S masochism!

A few months ago I also began to explore the circular format. After contemplating it for nearly a year, I’ve become infatuated with shooting round images. I’ve been using a lens on my 8X10 that is not intended to cover the format. My intent is to use the full image circle projected by the lens, with the image vignetting to a thin, black circular border. The image that is currently on the opening page of my website was shot on my recent pilgrimage to Santa Fe to attend the platinum printers’ party held at Bostick and Sullivan’s house. I used a friend’s home-made 8X10 point and shoot. The camera is modeled after one shown in an article by Gordon marks in a recent issue of Shutterbug. I’m now about ½ way into building an 8X10 point and shoot of my own.. And yes, it can be hand-held down to ¼ or 1/8 of a second. It is hard to describe how freeing it is to shoot an 8X10 negative without the aid of a tripod. Three zone-focus settings controlled by lensboard spacers and a door-security-viewer thingy for a viewfinder. What a way to do large format!

I look forward to participating in this group, although the name "Zoners" had me a little worried at first <g>. If you’d like to see some of my images, the URL of my website is http://www.jps.net/kerik/

Aileen Maconi P.O. Box 2316, Worcester, MA 01613

508-754-1315; Fax: 508-757-3634

Email: Amaconi111@aol.com

"My educational background is: School of the Worcester Art Museum, CFA where I studied the foundations of art, including painting, drawing, e-d design, etc. Kansas City Art Institute, BFA, where I majored in photography. Although I have taught photography at various levels and programs, from grade school to college I have made my career outside of photography for past eleven years. I own a financial services agency. Currently I am back in college. I have used a multitude of formats and my portfolios go back and forth between straight photography and alternative processes. Currently my work is with the 35mm camera doing colour landscapes. Some of my portfolios include: City Topographics 1982-85; Worcester County Farms 1980-present; Victorian Collage Series 1989-92; Tourist Attractions, New England 1987; Tourist Attractions Europe, 1980; and Colour Landscape (4 portfolios), 1993-present." (Bio from 1996).

Lisa Martzke 121 Jefferson Avenue, Janesville, Wisconsin 53545

Email: LMARTZKE@jvlnet.com

"My bio’s not fascinating or worldly, but I love and appreciate photography. I had an eye-blink career as an art teacher, then stayed home with the kids while operating as estate sales business. Went back to work as a high school aide (low stress!) and have been teaching photography to kids in summer school. I really enjoy working with the kids and try hard to get them to open their eyes. I use a nIkon 8008S almost exclusively an dabble with a Yashica 124G and have just bought used Polaroids - SX70 and ProPack. I’m enjoying experimenting with them. My work usually involves sharp contrast or bold color and I’m drawn to detail. (Bio from 1996).

(Update from 1997): My work with Polaroid transfers has been fun and satisfying. I enjoy each step, making the image, the boiling and playing with the emulsion, working with the wrinkles an tears, and finally, extending the image with watercolors. I like the idea of a viewer having to decide what’s going on… is it real or not?"

Ann Weaver McDonald 4615 8^th Street, Lubbock, Tx. 79416-4721

806-795-5565; Fax 806-795-8670

Email: AnnMcDonald@compuserve.com

"Born and reared (West Texas term) in Lubbock; grad Lubbock High School, 1953; grad SMU 1957 w/BS in journalism; editor, First Family magazine for (now defunct) First National Bank in Dallas 2 ½ years; married Craig McDonald 1960; lived in Crosby county (Ralls) 35 years as farm wife, mother of 3, grandmother of 3, now a city dude again; photographer since 1958 when I had to do everything for FF; darkroom since 1970. I now work with black and white as well as color in 35 mm, 120, and spasmodically in 4X5. I look for isolated images in nature and architecture as well as floral abstracts. Actually, I photograph whatever pleases me, an ddream of more time in the darkroom. I was the founder of the West Texas Photographic Society of Lubbock several years ago. Our main purpose is to hold an annual open photography show and to promote photography as a creative and artistic medium. The zoners group has been very valuable to me for all of the comments on images and various processes.

Billie Mercer 6602 Blue Hills, Houston, Tx., 77069

"Business experience includes VP of division of Fortune 500 company and 10 years experience as management consultant. Currently doing less consulting and more B&W photography. For almost three years have been working on a series in Mexico called "Enduring Faith." This work has been shown in a number of galleries in Texas including one in Houston during FotoFest as well as a show in Abilene at the Contemporary Arts Center. Most work is in medium format but have old 5X7 and plan to try my hand at palladium printing soon." (Bio from 1995).

Daphne Mitchell 4308 Navajo Ave., Oceanside, CA 92056

"Texas expatriate in California. Computer imager, photographer (on hold till I can unpack boxes containing studio and darkroom and find a place to work). Single Mom of eleven year old daughter, Celeste. Still trying to get a toe hold in CA, but at least my car passed the smog exam…" (Bio from 1995).

St. Clair Newbern III 1701 River Run, #1000, Fort Worth, Tx. 76107

817-870-2647 (w); 817-923-2833 (h)

Email: stclairn@postoffice.worldnet.att.net

"Age 53, attorney (UT 1967). I shoot 35mm (Leica RF and Nikon AF), B&W (TRI-X and P3200), and color (Velvia, RDP100 and K200), mostly people on the street. I love to travel and have been to Israel, Hungary, Egypt, France, Mexico and Canada in the last 20 years (I am planning a trip to France in late April/early May), 1996. If anyone has suggestions, please let me know). I nearly always have a camera in my car or over my shoulder. I try to take the best picture that is available wherever I am." (Bio from 1995).

Michael Penney 80 Buffumsville Rd., #23, Somersworth NH 03878-3035

"I’ve been photographing one thing or another since the mid ‘70s. I studied with Neal Rantoul at The New England School of Photography in Boston MA 1976-77. I studied the History of Photography with Jim Dow at the Museum School of Fine Arts, also in Boston around ‘93-’94, I believe. I mostly photograph urban landscapes and things that have withstood the test of time. I work in color using an 8X10 view camera and color neg. film. I have two current projects: 1. "Down by the River" photographs which explore the relationship between the Nashua River and the city of Fitchburg, MA. 2. "Saratoga" Photographs of Saratoga Race Course, the oldest horse track in the country (1864)." (Bio from 1995).

Ellen Rogers 428 Hillside Street, Milton, MA 02186-5223

EBRPhoto@aol.com

"My full name is Ellen Bowditch Rogers. I’ve lived in Milton, MA for the last 4+ years in the house that my mother grew up in. Before I spent 4 years at RIT in Rochester, NY, and I grew up in Des Moines, IA (Hi, Lynn!).

I began taking pictures as soon as I got my folks to buy me a real camera (canon ae-1 program!) when I was 15. I got lucky that a high school teacher wanted to teach photo that year. I even got my first paying gig at 16; for the Salvation Army! It entailed getting up at 3 am to go with them on their morning food runs around the seedy neighborhoods of Des Moines (I know, seedy in DSM may SEEM like an oxymoron, but don’t believe everything you hear about how nice midwesterners are!). That experience made me realize I DIDN’T want to pursue photojournalism! The hours suck! But it also gave me the idea that maybe I could earn a living – little did I know!

After school (which went well), I moved out here in June of 1994, and took the first job I could get – in a Lab, where else?!? That lasted 18 months (agony), and then I moved on to a contract with a portrait studio that does families, kids, and school/camp photography. I was first with the digital team doing ID pics with that Datacard system that a lot of states use for Drivers’ licenses now.

After that was up, I took a full time assisting position with a great guy in Boston, Eric Roth. He specializes in interior and garden photography, which, while not my main interest, was interesting. It was a great introduction to the commercial photo scene in Boston! I learned a lot and made many valuable connections.

After just over 2 years there, I craved more! So in April I officially went out on my own to do that earning a living thing that seemed so possible 10 years ago! I’m freelancing for the same studio I worked with when I first was here, and have an occasional portrait client or location scouting of my own. I still assist some, but haven’t pursued it actively. I have a busy school season, but after that I hope to hole up for the winter to pursue my artistic visions!

People fascinate me as a subject. I tend to objectify them and make them beautiful on my terms, rahter than find their "personality." I have lots in my head, and must allow myself the time to complete the translations, so everyone else can see them too. (26 years old; Class of ’94 RIT; Young Photographers at the Maine Photographic Workshops, 1989; I work mainly in 2 and ¼ Hasselblad and some 35 mm [Nikon]).

David Rosen 3426 Miller Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48103

Email: DavidRosen@compuserve.com

"I have been an active photographer for 25+ years, nearly exclusively B&W, and almost always people. For the past 15 years or so, I have had the greatest enthusiasm shooting children and teenagers, both known and unknown, posed and on the street. I am a complete amateur – and want to stay that way. That does not make me a dabbler, rather, I love making pictures too much to want to do it for a living. No fancy credentials, books, or exhibitions. I have been making and sending photo postcards for 20 or so years, and this is my usual strategy for disseminating my work. My postcard exchange list is long, and treasured. I’ve learned that it is at least as much fun to send as to receive. I also plead guilty to starting the flurry of postcard exchanges that has been happening on CIS. By day, I am a pediatrician and teenage medicine specialist, but I do not mix my business with pleasure." (Bio from 1995).

Mac Rowley 4702 19^th St., Lubbock, Tx. 79407-2304

Mac Rowley (everyone calls me Mac, but I am really Milton). I am a 58 year old plastic surgeon in private practice and teaching at Texas Tech med school. I have been doing photography since I was a teen, and that is my true passion. I work in 35, med format, 4X5 and 8X10. I have recently had some interest in the digital photography. I have attended more workshops than I can count with Ansel, Caponigro, David Alan Harvey, etc, etc, including Bill Wright and Frank Armstrong. I love to travel, take lots of pictures and am only about 10 years or so behind in my printing. I do all my own darkroom work. Most of my good work is in large format B&W but I keep plugging away with the color and the Leicas and Nikons. I hope to meet more of you zoners over the years.

Paul Ruby 1030 Green Ave.

Bellefonte, PA 16823

Email: paulruby@vicon.net

A short photo biography: Uses 8X10 view camera primarily (90%). Balance is small and medium formats. Education: Attended workshops: Ansel Adams Gallery, Zone VI Fred Picker; Paul Caponigro; Jerry Uelsmann. Also attended pastel painting and drawing classes. General: Began photography in 1975, college newspaper an dyear book. Began large format in 1979, influenced by books – The Negative, The Print, The American Avante Garde (A. Stieglitz); Carnegie Museum Exhibits. Exhibits: Single person exhibits = 5; Group Exhibits = 40. Instructor: have taught numerous workshop and classroom classes ranging from basic photography to fine art photography. See examples of photographs at: http//www.vicon.net/~paulruby

Thanks for having me and regards.

Mike Sherer 7952 S. 151^st Ave., Omaha, NE 68138

Awaiting Bio.

Chip Simone 892 Adair Ave, NE

Atlanta, GA 30306

csimone@mindspring.com

The American poet John Ciardi said, "A man is what he does with his attention." Photography is what I do with mine. Born and raised in Worcester, MA, where in 1955, I received a snapshot camera for Christmas. I took one look through the viewfinder and never looked back.

I apprenticed with a local photographer while in high school, then went to The Rhode Island School of Design, where I studied with Harry Callahan. School mates included Jim Dow, Emmit Gowin, Linda Conner, Bill Burke, and John McWilliams. It was an intense time for me and an incredible time for photography in America. I exhibited for the first time in 1966 (Hallmark Gallery, NYC) and took my BFA in Photography in 1967. A lot has happened since.

I was Assistant Professor of Art at age 22; taught at four colleges and universities. 1973: founding member of NEXUS, a photographers Co-op gallery in Atlanta. 1978: six month Portrait project on the streets on Washington, D.C. (on 8X10); 1980: received an NEA grant to photograph the Italian community of Worcester (again on 8X10); 1982: NEA Photographers’ Fellowship. 1985: showed in three French cities, including the Sorbonne in Paris. Prints in collections including the MOMA, The Corcoran, the Worcester Historical Museum (92 prints), and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, where I serve as Chairman of the Board of the Photo Forum, the museum’s photography support organization. In 1996 I published my first book, ON COMMON GROUND, Photographs from the Crossroads of the New South, with an introduction by Andrew Young (85 stocastic tritones, The Mercer Press).

I am a street photographer dedicated to the pursuit of my vision. Most of my images are about people in urban settings because that is where I sense the clearest emotional resonance. In 1996 Harry Callahan, in his typical, minimal fashion, summed up his way of working…"You walk. You take pictures. It piles up." That works for me, too.

I am married to Kathy Egan, Executive Director of UNICEF, Atlanta.

Bob Trotter trotter@bitstreet.com

1410 Tanglewood, Abilene, Tx. 79604

I am a retired pathologist (No, not the Kevorkian type). I live across the street from Bill and Alice Wright and have known them since 1961…so you will understand the constant pressure on me to perform. Bill is a tough taskmaster!!!

Peggy and I have traveled A LOT with Bill and Alice, and he has tutored me in photography. I have done "art work" since a kid, and have a studio and darkroom in a little house behind my home. It is also here that my computer resides…and so, I may not be prompt with return messages. I have four children (who think they’re mature…just wait until arthritis sets in) and four grandchildren (these, of course, are just right).

I come from Denton, Texas, graduated from the University of North Texas (it was North Texas State College at the time); graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch, then had post-graduate training at Denver, back to Galveston, then the Air Force, and finished up at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. We have been in Abilene ever since.

I think that is about it. Personal Clinton-type information shall remain confidential!

Sadanand Warrier 404 Village Road East

Norwood, MA 02062; Phone: 781-255-5773

Email: swarrier@hotmail.com

I am currently working as an embedded systems engineer with a telecommunications company in Norwood, MA. I’m a graduate in Physics and Electronics Engineering from the University of Bombay. I started my career in nuclear research and then moved on to computer design and eventually wound up in embedded systems. I photographed rather sparingly till about 1991, and then I got married to a journalist/editor. Then I got friendly with her colleagues, the photo editor and a couple of the staff photographers, and became more interested in photography. I started off by accompanying my wife on some of her interviews and reporting sprees whenever I had the time. I shoot 35mm. Nothing specific, just on the street situations, anything that I like. I’ve not had any formal training or anything. Just reading and wasting a lot of film trying to make decent images.

We have one son who is five years old. I shall be in the USA for maybe two years, and after that it is back to India to help run the company that some friends and I started about a year ago.

Steve Williams 818 Boalsburg Pike, Boalsburg, PA 16827

"It is difficult to define who I am and what I do in a few words. The crossing of photography and my life is best viewed through this filter: No matter how hard I try to escape photography, I keep waking up somewhere with a camera next to me. Maybe there is a 12 step group.

I will endeavor to live up to Paul’s words and contribute what I can, but I always seem to end up with more than I ever give. At the moment I am quietly basking in the knowledge that I don’t have to make any more prints for class, the last color print is cooling, and I have a minute to examine what just happened during the past 12 weeks. And just to set the record straight, I am in graduate school part-time, and I am applying now for admission into the MFA program in Photography. Whether I am admitted is another question. But I did manage to enter this place; perhaps it is a good omen."

Bill Wright P.O. Box 810, Abilene, Texas 79604. 915-692-2828

Email: bwright@abilene.com

"Former gasoline marketer, real estate investor, documentary photographer, author of The Tigua (1994), The Kickapoo (1996), and published this year: Voices from the Desert: Personal Narratives of the Texas’ Big Bend (1997).