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Scott
Sternbach
Photography Program Director
email: ssternbach@lagcc.cuny.edu
courses taught: Beginning Photography, Intermediate Photography,
Studio Lighting I & II, Digital Photography I & II, Photojournalism,
View Camera
bio: Scott Sternbach has been interested in photography since early childhood.
His great grandfather and grandfather were both avid
photographers and this fact most likely inspired him to begin taking photographs
by the time he was 10 years old. Sternbach had a darkroom at 11 and had income
in his early teens shooting slides of artwork for artists. After
studying with Arnold Gassan at Ohio University he returned to New
York and studied with Lisette Model at The New School for Social
Research.
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Over the course of the past 30 years, Sternbach's work has been published
in The New York Times, Swiss Jazz Magazine, and New York Magazine,
and has also been featured in 60 credits on CD and record jackets,
and in numerous editorial spreads. His work has been exhibited nationally
and internationally, including in the American Cultural Center, in
Senegal, Dakar and in the permanent archive of Walt Disney Studios.
Sternbach has traveled extensively to document undiscovered places
in Mexico, remote areas of the Yukon Territory, Alaska, Costa Rica
and most recently, the Antarctic. He was awarded the prestigious
National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers grant
in May of 2008. The work produced from his 3 month residency in Antarctica
is now in production and has been exhibited as 40 large format prints
at LaGuardia College Atrium Gallery CUNY. Sternbach has presented the work
in lecture format to the passengers on board the National Geographic
Endeavour, for students at Yeshiva University, for CUNY faculty
and a variety of local venues. Selections from the Antarctic project
were included in “Finding Work” a group exhibition curated
by Keith Miller at Gallatin Gallery (NYU) in November 2009. The
Antarctic project was on exhibition at the American Museum
of Natural History through January 2011 and has become part of a traveling exhibition that will last ten years. Sternbach has self-published a monograph of the
work titled, "Antarctic Souls," and the book is available upon request.
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Javier
Larenas
Senior College Lab Technician, Adjunct Lecturer
email: jlarenas@lagcc.cuny.edu
courses taught: Beginning Photography, Intermediate Photography,
Digital Photography I, Studio Lighting I, Studio Lighting II with
view camera techinques, Color Photography, Color Darkroom Techniques,
Commercial Photography Workshop, Commercial Photography Seminar,
Internships, Independent Studies
bio: Javier Larenas, who obtained his Bachelors in Photography and
Digital Imaging, is a Fine Art photographer with a lifelong love
for photography and a great affinity for quality and detail. Influenced
by photographers such as Ansel Adams, Jerry Uelsmann, Minor White,
Imogen Cunningham, Margaret Bourke-White, Edward Weston, Eadweard
Muybridge, Gordon Parks, Walker Evans, Ernst Haas, and Steve McCurry,
his subjects are vast in scope and employ either artistic or editorial
styles.
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His work is recognized for its mastery of subtle color and
tonal differences, lighting, composition, perspective, and attention
to detail. Larenas is the only Tenured Faculty member whose dedication and
commitment to photographic education now spans nearly two decades
at LaGuardia. He has been involved in all facets of the program
through the years, including, most recently, co-designing the
current photo facility, which is the home of the LaGuardia Gallery
of Photographic Arts. Although he is commonly known for teaching
the Color Darkroom Techniques course, due to his extensive knowledge
and experience he has also taught other advanced photography courses
(see above). On a national level, he has been recognized with
two teaching awards and has been nominated for Excellence in Photographic
Teaching. He is also recognized in implementing innovative ideas
that have given many students the opportunity to participate and
work with Educational Volunteer Exchange Programs and Non-Profit
organizations that involve photography.
Larenas' teaching philosophy is based on his passion to inspire
students at an authentic and continuously challenging level. While
cultivating and nurturing students' individual vision, he redefines
their own levels of excellence and raises their technical expertise
so as to empower creative expression. Effectiveness and success
in this endeavor is based on a balance of critical thinking exercises,
encouraged controlled experimentation, creative brainstorming
sessions, and the refinement of craft. Ultimately, students supersede
their initial expectations.
Finally, he has been a PSC CUNY Visual Arts Research Foundation
Grant Recipient, PSC CUNY Research Visual Arts Award Program Panel
Chairperson, member of LaGuardia’s Art and Exhibition Review
Committee, and a Founding member of LaGuardia’s Commercial
Photography Advisory Council.
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Sarah
Midkiff
College Lab Technician, Adjunct Assistant Professor
email: smidkiff@lagcc.cuny.edu
courses taught: Beginning Photography, History of Photography, Digital Photography I, Digital
Photography II
bio: Sarah Midkiff has long been enamored with language
and communication. Before settling in Queens, NY, she moved across
the Midwest and east coast for a decade, during which time she earned
a BFA in studio art and photography from Notre Dame and an MFA in
media arts from Southern Illinois University. Though photography
is her primary medium, her practices also include video, hand-drawn
animation, installation, and palm-sized bookmaking. Most recently
exploring the production of gender, her work confronts the largely
unconscious spaces in which reality and language construct each
other. She is an advocate of anachronistic combinations, wearing
scarves, and drinking plenty of water.
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Hugo
Fernandez
Assistant Professor
email: hufernandez@lagcc.cuny.edu
courses taught: Beginning Photography, Commercial Photography Seminar,
Introduction to Art, Urban Study-Art & Society
bio: Hugo Fernandez was born in Miami, Florida. The
son of Cuban exiles, he grew up in Florida and the North East. His
interest in photography began with family snapshots and his sister’s
own creative work. He began photographing in the early 80’s,
getting his associates and bachelors in between traveling across
country and traveling in Central and South America. He received
his master’s from Yale in 1993, and began teaching at LaGuardia
in 1994. Though predominantly a medium format landscape photographer,
he has taught and worked with most cameras, studio equipment and
processes. He’s slowly embracing digital and an enthusiast
of LaGuardia’s ePortfolio program.
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Jay
Corbett
Adjunct Lecturer
courses taught: Beginning Photography, Alternative
Photography, Studio Lighting I, Internships
bio: Jay Corbett is a New York City based Commercial /Fine Art photographer
who creates a world of exquisitely crafted still lifes. His assemblages
have an elegant formality in which lighting, film, painting, digital
enhancement and xerography all make contributions. Corbett received
a B.F.A. from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1990. His work
has been included in many shows and private collections: AGFA Photo
Gallery, Communication Arts Award, Ernest Haas /Golden Light Awards,
HOW Self Promotion Awards, Photo District News/Nikon Awards, PDN/PIX
Digital Annual Awards, The E3 Gallery and The Visual Club Exhibition
are just a few. Corbett has also been commissioned by such clients
as Alitalia Airlines, AT&T, Camel, Dupont, Guinness, Charles
Schwab, Eastman Kodak, Money Magazine, Omni Magazine, The Equitable,
Turner Movie Classics and CIO Communications to create his unique
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Tim
Dalal
Adjunct Lecturer
courses taught: Beginning Photography, Commercial
Photography Workshop, Commercial Photography Seminar
bio: Tim Dalal earned a B.F.A. In Photography in
1982 from SUNY New Paltz. He moved to New York City and began his
career working as a photo assistant, a staff photographer and eventually
opening his own studio specializing in product still life. He has
been teaching at LaGuardia Community College since 2008. |
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Maureen
Drennan
Adjunct Assistant Professor
courses taught: Beginning Photography
bio: Maureen Drennan is a photographer born and based in New York
City. She began her photographic studies at LaGuardia Community
College and then went on to complete an MFA in photography at the
School of Visual Arts in 2009. She has been featured in group exhibitions
nationally and locally. Maureen has received honors from Aperture,
The Photo Review, PDN, The Photographic Resource Center of Boston,
and Artist as Citizen. Her ice-fishing project was featured on the
New York Times Dot Earth blog in September 2009. |
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Jaimie
Lyle Gordon
Adjunct Assistant Professor
courses taught: Beginning Photography, History of
Photography
bio: Jaimie Lyle Gordon is a fine art photographer, and has exhibited
and published her photographs since the early 1980’s. She
has a BFA in Photography from School of Visual Arts, NYC, and an
MFA in Fine Art Photography from Hunter College, NYC. Jaimie’s
pioneering use of montage and projection techniques, and her photographic
exploration into the relationship between memory, melancholy, myth,
and the feminine imagination puts her in the vanguard of Post Modern
Photographers working with Surrealist methods. Through her many
years of teaching photography, Jaimie has cultivated her observations
into a unique classroom experience that combines traditional structure
with a creative and experimental approach to learning and communication.
She enjoys sharing her enthusiasm and knowledge for making and understanding
photographs with her students, and is deeply committed to helping
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Thierry
Gourjon
Adjunct Lecturer
courses taught: Beginning Photography
bio: Fascinated at an early age by the photographic medium and its
ability to either document the world or transform it into a new
representation, Thierry Gourjon, a French born photographer with
family ties to both Iceland and Norway, first studied medicine for
two years, after getting his French Baccalaureat in Paris. Frustrated
by the lack of creativity associated with the study of medicine
he decided to go back to his early interest, photography. Having
been self taught up to that point but wanting to further his understanding
of the basic principles of photography, he enrolled at the Societe
Francaise de Photography and got his CAP de Photographie a year
later. Unhappy with the limited options available in France to further
his studies and somewhat put off by the rigidity of French culture,
he decided to send his portfolio to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn,
NY, where he was accepted early 1993. Three years later he graduated
with a B.FA. in Photography. Freelance photographer and Photo instructor
for the past 15 years, he has been able to combine working as a
commercial and documentary photographer as well as developing long-term
personal projects. |
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Sally
Boon Matthews
Adjunct Lecturer
courses taught: Beginning Photography, Intermediate
Photography
bio: Sally Boon Matthews has a Foundation Degree in Art and a Diploma
in Art and Design (Photography) both from The Arts University at
Bournemouth, UK, with further studies in history and philosophy
at Boston University, Mass. Her practice incorporates photography,
drawing, painting and video to explore the transformation of personal
histories by re-contexualizing memories. |
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Evie
McKenna
Adjunct Assistant Professor
courses taught: Beginning Photography, Commercial
Photography Workshop, Commercial Photography Seminar
bio: Education: BFA, Philadelphia College of Art; MA, New York University/ICP
One-person exhibitions include: Dry Goods Art Gallery, Livingston
Manor, NY; White Columns; Baird Center, South Orange, NJ, New York
University, 80 Washington Square Gallery, NY
Group exhibitions include: University of the Arts, Philadelphia,
Ricco/Maresca Gallery; Queens Museum of Art; Athens Institute of
Contemporary Art, GA; Von Lintel & Nusser Gallery; Silverstein
Gallery; Williamsburg Art and Cultural Center; Richard Anderson
Fine Arts; Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis
Publications include: The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Williamsburg
Weekly, Art Papers, Flash Art, Open City
Awards include: New York Foundation for the Arts Grant; Yaddo Fellowship;
residency, Chinati Foundation; PS122. |
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Yola
Monakhov
Adjunct Assistant Professor
courses taught: Beginning Photography, Intermediate
Photography, Photojournalism, Color Photography
bio: As a photojournalist, Yola Monakhov photographed in Kosovo,
Iran, Afghanistan, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union while
on assignment for publications including the New Yorker, New York
Times, Newsweek and other American and European magazines. In the
past few years, having turned her attention to fine art photography,
Monakhov has often returned to her native city of Moscow to photograph
post-Soviet life. She has also been working extensively in the US,
focusing on portraiture and American iconography. She graduated
in 2007 with an MFA from Columbia University's School of Art. Currently
she also teaches photography at Columbia University and Mercer College.
She is a contributing photographer for the New Yorker magazine.
She has exhibited in the US and Russia. She lives in New York City. |
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Hrvoje
Slovenc
Adjunct Assistant Professor
courses taught: Beginning Photography
bio: Hrvoje Slovenc received an MS in Biochemistry
the from University of Zagreb and an MFA from Yale University School
of Art. He is a recipient of a London Photography Award, International
Photography Award, Golden Light Award, Photography Now Award, American
Photo Magazine Images of the Year Award, Mortimer Hays-Brandeis
Traveling Fellowship, 2008 and 2010 BRIO Award, and Alice Kimball
English Traveling Fellowship. His photographs have been exhibited
nationally and internationally including the 2009 Pingyao International
Photography Festival, 2010 Art Chicago, and the Museum of New Art
in Detroit. Hrvoje's photographs are included in the permanent collection
of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. |
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John
Wronn
Adjunct Assistant Professor
courses taught: Digital Photography I & II
bio: I have been a Staff Photographer at the Museum of Modern Art
for 12 years, received my MFA from Ohio University, and employ digital
photographic techniques in my artmaking. Digital photography provides
the possibility to refine and construct images. Taking a cue from
traditional photography I try to start with the best possible image.
I then have a choice of refining a portrait, for example, or constructing
a landscape from several others; a collage. I work primarily with
a 35mm DSLR because of its flexibility. As a professional photographer
I have developed a thorough technical understanding of Photography
and Adobe Photoshop. I am here at Laguardia to pass on my learning
experiences and techniques to all who are interested. |
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Lidiya
Kan
Adjunct College Lab Technician
bio: After a promising career in Finance in St Petersburg,
Russia, Lidiya Kan decided to pursue her long love and passion for
photography. In 2004, she began her quest, moved to New York City
and has not looked back since. She is now on the verge of acquiring
her degree in Commercial Photography and has been an adjunct lab technician
at LaGuardia for 4 years. She has expanded her professional photographic
experience working with institutions such as the Philippe Halsman
Archives and the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives on photo-documentary
collections and projects, and photographers such as Livia Corona.
Photographing
in an editorial and documentary style, Lidiya is inspired by masters
of photographers such as Sebastiåo Salgado and Eugéne
Atget. Known to work on a long term project, she is currently working
on documentary project about Uzbekistan. |
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Brian
Ross
Adjunct College Lab Technician
bio: Born and raised in New York City, Brian became
fascinated with photography in his junior year of high school when
he received his first SLR camera as a gift from his grandparents.
He would explore the streets around his neighborhood looking for
interesting subject matter and fleeting moments. The images of Cartier-Bresson
and that of Elliot Erwitt were always in his mind. Brian’s
interest and love of photography kept growing. He would carry his
camera wherever he would go knowing that there was always a shot
right around the corner. After graduating high school he enrolled
in LaGuardia Community College's Photography Program where in 2010
he received his A.A.S. degree in Commercial Photography. He participated
in "The Faces of LaGuardia" show, and also held his own
show in the lab named “Ross 1L” which explored the increasingly
difficult life of his grandparents and the struggles that they were
experiencing. Now an Adjunct Lab Technician at LaGuardia, Brian
is pursuing a B.A. in Art Education at The City College of New York.
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