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Photographic Arts Workshop Guest Instructors |
Jay Dusard, of Douglas, Arizona has photographed the quiet, subtle aspects of the landscape for thirty years, yet he is most well known for his portraits of cowboys. This is a direct result of his first book, The North American Cowboy: A Portrait, the product of a 1981 Guggenheim Fellowship. Following the publiction of that classic book, Jay published La Frontera, a collaboration with writer Alan Weisman about the U.S./Mexico border from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific. Following that, he published Beyond the Rangeland Conflict: Toward a West that Works, a collaboration with writer Dan Daggett, is proving to be a pivotal book in the history of land stewardship in the West, detailing examples of outstanding ranching practices designed to improve the land, the livestock and the wildlife. The book was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Open Country, published in 1994, features additional landscape studies. His latest book, Horses, is a small-format book praising those wonderful creatures that have been such an integral part of the West for centuries. He pursues photography—mostly ranching and cowboy themes again—when not busy doing ranching work or playing his cornet in jazz groups
Dusard's love of the land—particularly the sculpted landscape
of the West—his love of people, and his outrageous, contagious sense of
humor make him one of the finest photography instructors in the U.S.A.
He'll make your workshop very enjoyable.
Jack Dykinga, of Tucson, Arizona, is a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, and author of a host of color wilderness advocacy books, including Frog Mountain Blues, The Secret Forest, The Sierra Pinacate, The Sonoran Desert, Stone Canyons of the Colorado Plateau, and Desert: The Mojave and Death Valley. He authored and photographed Large Format Nature Photography, a "how to" guide to color landscape photography. Jack Dykinga's ARIZONA released in 2004 by Westcliffe Publishers, is a compellation of his best Arizona images along with his personal wilderness experiences. He is a regular contributor to Arizona Highways Magazine. Jack is an expert in both traditional and digital photographic processes, for his shoots with traditional color transparency film, scans them, manipulates them when necesary, and outputs his magnificent prints via ink-jet printing.
He has collaborated with Mexico's Agrupacion Sierra Madre to help produce their latest book on the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, printed in both Spanish and English.
Currently, he serves on the board of The Sonoran National Park Project in an effort to create a new Bi-National Park on the Arizona/Sonora, Mexico border. His continuing work along the U.S./Mexican border is currently focusing on the biological richness and diversity of the protected areas along the Rio Grande River corridor for the National Geographic.