Teaching Photography and Art Online – A VASA Forum

Starting tomorrow I will be moderating a Vasa sponsored discussion that will explore and investigate the technical challenges to teaching photography online and the strategies and best practices (methodology) for teaching basic and advanced photography/art courses in the online environment. I am looking for both educators that are already teaching online and those who may [...]

Challenges for Photo Faculty 2011 and Beyond

I’ve seen so many changes in photography over the past 30+ years. In many ways teaching photography used to be easier and less complex and demanding than it is today. We taught and worked with the analog (wet) process in the darkroom and used something called film in our cameras. Sure…there are still lots of [...]

My Awesome Photography Students!!

I’m getting ready to submit final grades for my 2011 graduating photography students. My last class who have been with me for the past 5 semesters did a stellar job and went above and beyond my expectations. We started with about 25 students and these are the ones that were persistent and didn’t quite when [...]

URBANAUTICA Interview…..

Check out this interview ECU Photography Professor Daniel Kariko did on my photographic/education career for his web journal URBANAUTICA. Click Here!!!

From Teacher to Student

Its a beautiful Saturday morning here on the coast of North Carolina. The Spring semester is quickly coming to a close and I’m in the middle of evaluating final exams, online discussions, photography and art projects and extra credit submissions. I gave my Art Appreciation and History students an opportunity to pick up 5 extra [...]

Photo / Art Education 2011

Please check out my latest essay concerning how art and photo education have changed (evolved) over the past 20 years. I posted it on Vasa Blog where I am a regular contributor. CLICK HERE!

On Teaching…

I got an e-mail the other day from my old High School buddy Gordon who let me know my 40th High School reunion was next month. I about freaked! I couldn’t believe it had been 40 years since graduating Holy Family Catholic High School on Long Island. I was a lousy student and the nuns [...]

Digital Photography Workshop – After Thoughts

I presented another Digital Photography Workshop in Jacksonville NC yesterday. This time I gave a more advanced presentation to a small group of local photographers. It was a nice surprise to see one of my former Photography graduates Dean Remington show up for my talk. He sure has come a long way with his photography. [...]