This lecture is interesting to a broad university audience since it has implications for many different fields. The presentation connects modern photojournalism to the use of image communication from Altamira to the Age of Enlightenment to the Hubble The lecture demonstrates the critical role of the image in the developement of writing, modern science, medicine and digital journalism. It also brings forth fascinating new findings about the way the human brain interprets images.

Students come away from this lecture with a new understanding of the cerebral process of image communication and its history in understanding our world.

This lecture program is aimed more at University art students. It demonstrates the development of photographic ideas and images from the directly representational to abstract or impressionist images. Students will have an opportunity to understand the use of raw, hard photography of industrial products as a jumping off place for abstract and even surreal fine art photographs or paintings.They will also get insights into the process of using the digital scanner to turn three dimensional objects into two-dimensional art.

My work has been shown in galleries in New York and Chicago(see samples).

I teach these hands-on courses on a one term or more basis. Editors that I interviewed across the U.S.have all told me they believed that more than a cursory knowledge of photojournalism was a neccessity for the modern reporter or editor- Thus I teach the 101 version of the course from both an editor's and a photographer's point-of-view. What I teach is from my own experience supplemented by guest lectures by professional editors and photojournalists. (My teaching has included graduate and undergraduate photojournalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and Northwestern University College.)

Students completing these courses will have enhanced their resumes. More, they will have enhanced their careers as reporters and editors or made a valuable begining toward a career as a photojournalist. (see photography samples)