Dan Burkholder has been teaching digital imaging workshops for 14 years at venues including The School of the Art Institute, Chicago; The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego; The Royal Photographic Society, Madrid, Spain; The International Center of Photography, New York; Santa Fe Workshops; Anderson Ranch and many others. His award-winning book, Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing, has become a standard resource in the fine-art photography community. His new book, The Color of Loss (University of Texas Press), documents the flooded interiors of post-Katrina New Orleans using HDR photography.

Dan's workshops are famous for their energy, information and humor.

Gabriel Biderman is a travel and self-taught fine art photographer for over 15 years. He states proudly, "I love the process of creating the image. Classic cameras, Pinholes, and Plastic Cameras help push the visions along - I'm a big fan of choosing a specific camera to get me into a certain mindset. I try to spend some quality time in my Darkroom every week - though, thanks to Lensbabies, the digital darkroom is piquing my interest in pixels!"

Gabe's work has been featured in photography exhibits in San Francisco, New York, London, and Hawaii as well as being published in print and on the internet. Currently Gabriel works as the trade show Marketing Manager at B&H Photo Video and Pro-Audio. Visit Gabriel's website and blog at ruinism.com.

Henrieke I. Strecker was born in Freiburg, Germany at the foot of the Black Forest. Her interest on photography began by experimenting making photograms with simple photo paper and light. Almost two decades ago, she had built her own pinhole cameras.

Strecker reveals the essence of her subjects and of time itself with this method, more completely than can be done in an isolated moment of short exposure time. She also blurs the distinction that separates photography and painting, by combining the two in her evocative work. In so doing, Strecker's work opens more questions than answers.

Throughout my life, my interest has been to go deeper - unearthing, layer by layer, the fields of vision hidden beneath the surface.

http://pinhole-photography.de/

Bidaut was born in Texas in 1965. As a youth she backpacked in Europe with an older sister. Bidaut photographed the markets and the animaleries (pet stores) of Europe. This 1982 trip led to many returns, with Bidaut seeing Greece, Holland, Italy, France and North Africa. In the mid-1980's Bidaut studied art and photography at Texas Christian University on a scholarship. In 1996 at a Connecticut fleamarket, Bidaut met a man selling butterflies, and she bought her first insect. The vender was a passionate entomologist who had collected specimens since childhood. She visited his home and was stunned by his collections. She began collecting with him as her principal source.

As Bidaut photographed her insects, she searched for the photographic medium that would best express her intentions. She determined modern chemistries wouldn't do. Finally she chose the tintype.

Fixing the specimens in a 'quiet space' seemed to require older, more painstaking techniques. She choose ferrotype (also called tintype) in which 'The Dark - felt beautiful' for the dusky shadings of the process impart to everything captured an aura of perpetual twilight.

Jill Skupin Burkholder is a photographer working in the bromoil process, combining the old techniques with new digital approaches. She has taught bromoil's painterly brush-and-ink techniques in workshops for groups including the Texas Photographic Society, the Academia de Fotografia in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and Photographers' Formulary in Montana.

Jill began working with photography in 1985 studying both traditional and digital photography and experimenting with various alternative photography techniques. She learned the bromoil process from Gene Laughter, a photographer who researched the technique by studying historical writings and interviewing members of The Bromoil Circle of Great Britain. She is a member of the International Society of Bromoilists, a small group of artists working in this elusive medium.

Her images have been published in recent publications, Black and White Camera Craft by William Cheung and Art Business News, "Reborn Victorians." Her bromoils have been exhibited throughout the U.S and can be found in private and public collections.

www.jillskupinburkholder.com/

Lothar Osterburg is active as artist, teacher and master printer in photogravure and etching. He completed art school in Germany before moving to the United States in 1987. After first living in San Francisco, he settled in New York City in 1993. His work has been shown internationally from Germany to Japan, and is exhibited regularly in the United States. Exhibitions include solo shows at Lesley Heller Gallery in 2009, Moeller Fine Art in 2003 and 2004, both in New York, the Fitchburg Museum of Art in 2007, Zoller Gallery in University Park, PA in 2003;  “Imaginary Places” at Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, PA in 2002. Awards include two NYFA awards, and AEV Foundations grant, and several residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Hui No’Eau Arts Center in Maui and the Virginia Center of the Arts.

As a master printer he has worked in several print workshops throughout the United States, including Crown Point Press, where he started working in photogravure. Since 1993, he operates his own collaborative photogravure and etching workshop in New York City, where he worked with artists such as Lorna Simpson, William Wegman, Judy Pfaff, David Lynch, Lee Friedlander, Zoe Leonard and Adam Fuss.
Besides teaching numerous workshops in photogravure throughout the United States and Canada he has been invited as visiting artist to numerous Colleges and Universities. He is currently on the faculty of Bard College and Cooper Union.

Norm Sarachek's work brings together the aesthetics of abstract painting and print making with the materials used in the process of photography. Utilizing the unique action of light and chemicals on silver gelatin photographic paper allows him to create images that are neither classical photographs nor paintings or prints, but a marriage of aesthetics and technique that lead in a new direction. Inherent in his work is balancing control and chance in much the same way an abstract painter uses control and chance in making a brush stroke. It is my intention to inform and energize the final image with a sense of risk taking, with evidence of process, and with strength of gesture.

Sarachek has exhibited at the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT, New England School of Photography, Boston, MA, Maine Photographic Workshop, Rockport, ME, Watershed Media Center, Bristol, England, and many other galleries throughout the United States. His work is in the collections of the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY; Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY, New Paltz, NY; Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA; The Museum of Anthropology, California State University, Chico, CA; and private collections throughout the United States and in Australia, and is included in the Third Edition of Robert Hirsch’s textbook, Photographic Possibilities.

www.nsarachekart.com

Tom Persinger is a photographer, writer, curator, and the founder of F295. F295 is an international organization that believes in the value of a heterogeneous photographic approach, in which digital, historic, and self-made methods are employed and combined in the creation of a new “21st Century Photography.”

He organizes the F295 symposium and seminar series to promote the exploration 21st Century Photography. These events offer a unique chance to investigate the ideas of light, time, and the apparatus through the voices of practicing photographers. The symposium also offers exhibitions and workshops by masters in their field.

Persinger’s photographs have been shown in numerous exhibitions and are in many private collections in the United States and Europe. He has been published in Photographic Possibilities (3rd Edition), Afterimage, Ag, Black and White Photography (UK), PhotoEd, and View Camera.

He has lectured at numerous colleges, universities, and museums, has lead many workshops, is a member of Freestyle Photographic’s Advisory Board of Photographic Professionals, and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. In addition to several photographic projects he is also currently working on a book which will further illuminate the 21st Century Photographic approach.

He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife and two sons and may be reached at: studio@tompersinger.com

http://www.tompersinger.com