ABOUT TEACHINGPHOTO.COM

TeachingPhoto.com is a Web site for and by photography teachers. It is published by Henry Horenstein (Rhode Island School of Design), author of Black & White Photography, Beyond Basic Photography, Color Photography, and coauthor (with Russell Hart) of Photography, as well as monographs CREATURES, ANIMALIA, AQUATICS, HONKY TONK, CLOSE RELATIONS, CANINE, and RACNG DAYS.

Webmaster: Dori Miller
Managing editor: Samantha Fields

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Contributing Writers

Mary Virginia Swanson is a leader in the marketing and licensing fields of fine art photography. After receiving an MFA in photography from Arizona State University in 1979 she served as education coordinator for The Friends of Photography, was the founding director of the American Photography Institute at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and headed Special Projects for Magnum Photos. It was during her tenure at Magnum that she recognized the opportunities for artists to develop second markets for their work, and in 1991 she founded SWANSTOCK, an innovative agency that managed licensing rights for fine art photographers. Swanson currently consults, lectures, and conducts workshops, and is committed to bringing photography and photographers to new markets.

Swanson is a contributing writer for www.teachingphoto.com and Photo District News and is a member of the Fujifilm Talent Team. She and Darius Himes coauthored a series of articles, entitled "The Role of Your Photography Book in Your Career" that is currently being published by the Photo Eye Booklist. The series is running through 2005. Swanson is a sought-after portfolio reviewer at international industry events such as Fotofest, Review Santa Fe, and the Rhubarb Festival of the Image. Educational institutions where she has recently lectured include Savannah College of Art and Design, New York University, School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, New England School of Photography, and the University of the Arts. She has also lectured at numerous chapters of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) and given annual presentations at the National Meeting of the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) and PhotoPlus Expo.

Swanson serves on the Board of Directors of the Santa Fe Center for Photography; the Board of Fellows of the Center for Creative Photography; the ASMP Foundation Board; the Boards of Advisors of the Center for Photographic Arts, PhotoAlliance, and the Texas Photographic Society; and the National Advisory Board of PhotoLucida.

Neal Rantoul's work encompasses many diverse interests but there are two primary threads. One is large format black and white (8 x 10) landscape-based with bodies of work from the American Southwest and Northwest, Italy and France, Georgia, Martha's Vineyard and his own backyard: New England. The other is Series Work, which entails interests in encroachment, housing developments, architecture, urban environments and even the infamous Big Dig in Boston. These narratives are groups of photographs hinged together by line, form and time and often entail making pictures over a brief period from an area or specific place. He has received many grants and awards for his work, including a Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation grant in the late nineties. He has shown extensively, with work included in exhibitions at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Panacopticon Gallery in Waltham, Harvard University, the Kunsthaus in Zurich, among others, as well as frequent shows at Northeastern University in Boston.