Tom Rankin
Director, The Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
Tom Rankin is Director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and Associate Professor of the Practice of Art and Photography. A photographer, filmmaker, and folklorist, Rankin has been photographing and interpreting the American cultural landscape for over twenty years. Formerly Associate Professor of Art and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi and Chair of the Art Department at Delta State University, he was educated at Tufts University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Georgia State University. In 1991 he was awarded the Susan B. Herron fellowship in the visual arts from the Mississippi Arts Commission.
Widely exhibited and published, American Photography magazine named him on of the 100 most important people in photography. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (1993), which received the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Photography, Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre': Photographs of a River Life (1995), Faulkner's World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain (1997), and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (2000).
Widely exhibited and published, American Photography magazine named him on of the 100 most important people in photography. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (1993), which received the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Photography, Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre': Photographs of a River Life (1995), Faulkner's World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain (1997), and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (2000).
Honored Educator
Dr. Richard Zakia
Author, Professor Emeritus, Rochester Institute of Technology
Richard D. Zakia, Professor Emeritus at Rochester Institute of Technology, has taught in various areas of photography including graphic design, multimedia design and advertising. During his 34 years at R.I.T., he served as the chair of the Fine Art Photography Department and Graduate Program in Imaging Arts, and for six-years was Director of Instructional Development. Prior to joining R.I.T. he worked at Kodak as a photographic engineer. He is the recipient of the Eisenhart Outstanding Teaching Award and the author/co-author of 12 books on photography. The 2nd edition of his Perception and Imaging book has been translated into Korean and the 3rd edition, published in 2007, will be translated into Japanese.
Dr. Zakia will be available for book signing during the conference.
Joyce Tenneson
Photographer/Author
(sponsored by Canon, USA)
Tenneson is among the most respected photographers of our time, and has been described critically as "one of America's most interesting portrayers of the human character." Her work is a combination of portraiture and mythology-she is interested in discovering the archetypes of our being.
Tenneson's work has been shown in over 150 exhibitions worldwide, and is part of numerous private and museum collections. Her photographs have appeared on countless covers for magazines such as: Time, Life, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Premiere, Esquire and The New York Times Magazine. She is also a much sought-after portrait photographer with clients in Europe, Japan, and the United States.
Ms. Tenneson is the author of ten books, her latest, entitled Intimacy—the Sensual Essence of Flowers, was published by Barnes and Noble in 2004. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award, for best applied photography. In addition, she has been named "Photographer of the Year" by the international organization, Women in Photography. A recent poll conducted by American Photo Magazine voted Tenneson among the ten most influential women photographers in the history of photography. Joyce lives and works in New York City.
Ms. Tenneson will be available for book signing during the conference.
Johnny Horne
Astronomer/Photojournalist, The Fayetteville (NC) Observer
Dr. Richard Zakia
Author, Professor Emeritus, Rochester Institute of Technology
Richard D. Zakia, Professor Emeritus at Rochester Institute of Technology, has taught in various areas of photography including graphic design, multimedia design and advertising. During his 34 years at R.I.T., he served as the chair of the Fine Art Photography Department and Graduate Program in Imaging Arts, and for six-years was Director of Instructional Development. Prior to joining R.I.T. he worked at Kodak as a photographic engineer. He is the recipient of the Eisenhart Outstanding Teaching Award and the author/co-author of 12 books on photography. The 2nd edition of his Perception and Imaging book has been translated into Korean and the 3rd edition, published in 2007, will be translated into Japanese.
Dr. Zakia will be available for book signing during the conference.
Invited Presenter
Photographer/Author
(sponsored by Canon, USA)
Tenneson is among the most respected photographers of our time, and has been described critically as "one of America's most interesting portrayers of the human character." Her work is a combination of portraiture and mythology-she is interested in discovering the archetypes of our being.
Tenneson's work has been shown in over 150 exhibitions worldwide, and is part of numerous private and museum collections. Her photographs have appeared on countless covers for magazines such as: Time, Life, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Premiere, Esquire and The New York Times Magazine. She is also a much sought-after portrait photographer with clients in Europe, Japan, and the United States.
Ms. Tenneson is the author of ten books, her latest, entitled Intimacy—the Sensual Essence of Flowers, was published by Barnes and Noble in 2004. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award, for best applied photography. In addition, she has been named "Photographer of the Year" by the international organization, Women in Photography. A recent poll conducted by American Photo Magazine voted Tenneson among the ten most influential women photographers in the history of photography. Joyce lives and works in New York City.
Ms. Tenneson will be available for book signing during the conference.
Invited Presenter
Astronomer/Photojournalist, The Fayetteville (NC) Observer
Horne is the photography editor for the Fayetteville Observer, where he has worked for more than 30 years. Johnny has been an amateur astronomer since age 10 and has written the monthly "Backyard Universe" amateur astronomy column for the Observer since 1989. He is a contributing editor for Sky and Telescope magazine and has led astronomical expeditions to Mexico, Africa, the Caribbean and Iceland. In January 2004 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) recognized Johnny for his work with public outreach in astronomy by naming asteroid (11132) Horne in his honor.
Invited Presenter
Pam Crist
Photographer/Owner of Dalmatian Black & White Custom Lab
Crist is an award winning black and white photographer from Greensboro, NC, and is recognized as one of the areas top experts in black and white photography and printing. She is the owner of Dalmatian Black and White Custom Lab in Greensboro, which specializes in B&W custom printing, serving photographers, ad agencies and corporations nationwide. Her studies have been with leading black and white photographers, such as Morley Baer, John Sexton and Allen Matthews. Crist has spent time traveling to Italy photographing and studying at "The Cortona Center of Photography in Tuscany". Crist's work is collected extensively on both the corporate and private level. Recent awards include winning the North Carolina Fine Art Photographers Best of Competition, twice in the last three years. She has also won the prestigious $50,000 Best of the Best international award, presented by the Photo Marketing Association, in which she combined her photography and design background creating ads for Dalmatian.
Pam Crist
Photographer/Owner of Dalmatian Black & White Custom Lab
Crist is an award winning black and white photographer from Greensboro, NC, and is recognized as one of the areas top experts in black and white photography and printing. She is the owner of Dalmatian Black and White Custom Lab in Greensboro, which specializes in B&W custom printing, serving photographers, ad agencies and corporations nationwide. Her studies have been with leading black and white photographers, such as Morley Baer, John Sexton and Allen Matthews. Crist has spent time traveling to Italy photographing and studying at "The Cortona Center of Photography in Tuscany". Crist's work is collected extensively on both the corporate and private level. Recent awards include winning the North Carolina Fine Art Photographers Best of Competition, twice in the last three years. She has also won the prestigious $50,000 Best of the Best international award, presented by the Photo Marketing Association, in which she combined her photography and design background creating ads for Dalmatian.
