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B.S., with a dual degree in painting and cinema at the University of Southern California |
Prof. Berman has been teaching at CCSF since 1995
I teach "BEGINNING STUDIO LIGHTING".
...But it's not just about the equipment... It's about "looking" and "seeing".
I believe that when a student has something important to "say", and feels compelled to share it with others, that student will find a way to say it.
If the language of photography happens to be the conduit, I try to help that student apply the use of artificial light, thoughtful composition, and a sense of the camera's power to augment the photographs he or she wants to use in expressing those thoughts.
1.) Professional photographer for 36 years
2.) Working with "steel" as a sculptural medium
3.) Trying (in photography) to move away from the tradition of the nude in it's "romantic" form. .
sport: Fencing
Love to cook.
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Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Biography is unavailable at this time.
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MFA in Photography |
Prof. Degani has been teaching at CCSF since 1994.
Nadereh Degani is a part-time instructor at City College of San Francisco. She received her MFA in Photography from Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA.
Since 1994 she has taught a variety of classes at City College in San Francisco, and is currently teaching PHOT51- Beginning Photography, PHOT81B - Advance Black & White Printing, and DSGN 105 - Survey of Collaborative Design. In the past, she has taught Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Color Photography, and Intermediate Black and White Photography. Nadereh has also taught at Skyline College, College of Marin, The Harvey Milk Photo Center, and the California Academy of Sciences.
Nadereh has worked as a photographer and graphic artist for Tower Record’s Pulse! Magazine in Sacramento, as well as for Quantity Postcards in San Francisco. As a fine art photographer, Nadereh has shown her work in a variety of galleries and museums across the U.S., namely Stanford University, Harvard University, Boston Museum of National Center of Afro-American Artist, Cambridge Multicultural Art Center, Alexandria Museum of Art in Louisiana, Eye Gallery, and Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco, Art Guild in Pacifica, D. C. A. C. Gallery in Washington D.C., 313 Bowery St. Gallery in New York, and City Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia.
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B.A., University of Oregon; |
Professor. Gentry has been teaching at CCSF since 2001 part-time and full-time since 2006.
My goal in teaching is to help students push their creative vision, learn good technique and to celebrate and realize their own ideas.
Erika Gentry is a Visual Artist and Educator. She specializes in digital imaging, photography, education, multi media arts and fine art printing in the Bay Area. An early advocate of the creative digital domain, she has been teaching and presenting electronic arts and photography at the institutional, organizational and individual levels nationwide since 1996 and has been a consultant to many of the industry’s leading professional photographers as they converted from film to a digital work-flow. She has worked in freelance photography, magazine and book picture editing, art direction, advanced digital post-production, web design and as a curator and educator. She has taught one-on-one and group courses at corporations and colleges such as The Rochester Institute of Technology, The San Francisco Art Institute, Foothill College, City College of San Francisco and Rayko Photo Center. She is currently an Associate Professor of Photography and Multi Media Studies at City College of San Francisco and designs photography workshops in France. http://www.photographyinfrance.com.
Gentry grew up in Portland Oregon and received her bachelor of arts degree from The School of Journalism and Communications at the University of Oregon in Eugene. She completed her master of fine arts degree at The School of Imaging Arts and Sciences from New York’s Rochester Institute of Technology. Her personal photographic projects explore issues of identity as expressed through the use of technology. She exhibits her work internationally and serves on the National Board of Directors for The Society for Photographic Education (www.spenational.org), the advisory board of Lensculture Magazine (www.lensculture.com) and is former Vice President to the Board of Directors for Fotovision.
National Board of Directors, Society for Photographic Education, www.spenational.org
Board of Directors, Fotovision, www.fotovision.org
Co-Chair, Western Region, Society of Photographic Education, www.spewest.org
French Language
Travel
Cooking
String Instruments
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MFA Photography 1995, California College of the Arts |
Prof. Heilweil has been teaching at CCSF since 2000
Victoria Mara Heilweil is a nationally exhibited photographic artist, educator and curator. Her work has been included at exhibitions at Intersection for the Arts, Southern Exposure, RayKo Photo Center and Root Division in the Bay Area, BC Space Gallery and the Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum in Southern California, the Visual Arts Center in Portsmouth, VA and the Washington Square Art Galleries in New York City.
Co-founder, MicroClimate Collective, an artist created curatorial project
Member, Society of Photographic Educators
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Biography is unavailable at this time.
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B.A., Ohio State University |
Prof. Light has been teaching at CCSF since 1997
With These Hands, To The Promised,Delta Time, Texas Death Row, Witness In Our Time;Lives of Working Documentary Photographers, Coal Hollow, Valley of Shadows and Dreams
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B.A., San Jose State University; B.F.A., Academy of Art College |
Prof. Mann has been teaching at CCSF since 1996
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Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Chair, Photography Department A.S., Cecil Community College; B.A., Allentown College; M.F.A., University of Delaware |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Chair, Photography Department B.A., University of California, Los Angeles |
Prof. Nishihira has been teaching at CCSF since 1999
All teachers should first teach 7the & 8th graders.
81 Bees Photography Collective
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BFA. University of Iowa |
Prof. Perry has been teaching at CCSF since 1988.
Professor Perry also teaches in the Art Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Classes include photography, sculpture, book arts and conceptual art.
Sailing, traveling and hiking.
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M.F.A., California College of Arts and Crafts |
Department Chair 2008 - 2011
Full-time Professor 2000 - Present; Tenured in 2004
Adjunct Professor 1992 - 2000
Success cannot be assessed by a measure of academic grades and technical expertise alone. Communication skills, cooperative endeavor, personal and professional conduct, responsibility, sensitivity to diverse needs, service, and enthusiasm are all crucial in the larger sense of learning. Passion for learning, commitment to excellence, and confidence in self are the qualities I attempt to model for my students.
Professor Raskin has been a participant in the student mentoring program through the Office of Mentoring and Service Learning since 2002 and participated in the SCANS program 2001 - 2005. He has organized and coordinated the Photography Department's Gallery Obscura, developed and maintained the Photography Department web site, and was Department Chair from 2008-2011.
Mr. Raskin's photography has been exhibited locally and nationally since 1978.
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MFA Vermont College at Norwich University, Vermont, USA |
Prof. Spragens has been teaching at CCSF since 1996
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Lab supervisor in the Photography and Graphic Communications Departments.
Curator of the student photography gallery, Gallery Obscura. Please email rtung@mail.ccsf.edu if you would like to propose a show in the gallery.
http://ccsfphoto.wordpress.com
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Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Biography is unavailable at this time.
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BA, Tufts University |
Prof. Williamson has been teaching at CCSF since 1996