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Faculty Biographies
The NESOP faculty is composed of men and women of exceptional interests, talents and backgrounds. Their work is widely exhibited and published. Most are working professionals taking time from their studios to share their experience, technical skills and business practices. This diverse, talented faculty makes for a truly rich educational resource.
NESOP first-year faculty
Robert Arruda
With 15 years teaching experience and 35 years of professional photography experience, Bob teaches the latest Digital Workflow techniques to our students. As a commercial photographer, he has extensive experience as an Architectural photographer. His primary photographic endeavors are product illustration for magazine and catalog clients such as Atlantic Monthly and La Cucina Italiana Magazine. His corporate clients include Etonic Worldwide, Westin Hotel and Canam Steel Corp. His digital expertise keeps him one step ahead of his competition.
Pamela Edwards
Pamela Edwards has more than 25 years experience both as an educator in photography and a freelance photographer. A NESOP graduate, Pam now teaches in the first year of the full-time program, instructing in small format and visual perception. Pam has also taught in Boston University's College of Communication, The Danforth Museum School and Imageworks Photography School. In addition to her teaching, Pam founded and runs Edwards Photographic, established in 1972. Clients include Shaw's, Inc., Polaroid Corporation, and Kubitz and Pepi.
Pam's exhibits are extensive, ranging from one-person shows at the EGG Gallery, the Carl Siembab Gallery, the Boston Architectural Center and Brown University. She also has work in the permanent collection of the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. Of note is a traveling exhibit sponsored by the DuPont Corporation, which highlighted the rural South and traveled in the U.S. and eleven foreign countries. Pam's additional educational background includes study at MIT, and work under such notable photographers as Garry Winogrand and Minor White—as well as Jack Canfield, the author of Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Heratch Ekmekjian
Based in Boston, Heratch is primarily known for his innovative commercial photography with a concentration in retail product photography. Heratch's assignment work varies from corporate and collegiate clients in the greater Boston area to portrait and distinctive weddings. A graduate of NESOP, Heratch is pioneering a strong infusion of digital photography throughout the NESOP program. Bill Franson Bill Franson studied photography at the Art Institute of Boston with a concentration in documentary photography, and earned a BA in philosophy at Calvin College.
Bill maintains a diverse client portfolio, bringing his compassionate eye and location-shooting prowess on assignment for numerous Boston healthcare clients, including Massachusetts General Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare. He brings studio capabilities to bear for corporate clients, including the Gillette division of Proctor and Gamble, Titleist-Footjoy Worldwide, and The Provident Bank.
His first love however is the finely crafted and evocative black and white image. Mid career Bill made a decisive, and balancing move to plant one foot in the gallery, while keeping the other in the commercial world. Since then, Bill’s extensive exhibition resume includes solo and group shows in and around Boston, in Manhattan and Woodstock New York, and throughout Texas. He has earned recognition from The Golden Light Awards, The Texas Photographic Society, and selection by the Danforth Museum for their biennial New England Photographers showcase in 2003. His long-term documentary project, A Nickel and a Kopek was chosen by the Santa Fe Center for Photography as a project to watch. His visual curiosity and abiding interest in the hand made print has led him to explore historical and alternative printing methods and his work is held in both corporate and private collections.
At NESOP, Bill’s broad education, his engaging enthusiasm for the photographic arts, his technical aptitude and his visual acuity all serve as creative catalysts for both first year and evening workshop students.
Martha S. Hassell
Martha S. Hassell completed her B.A. at Hood College in Philosophy and Art and her graduate coursework at Harvard University Extension in the History of Photography and Modern Art. Since 1980, Marty has been a member of the administration of NESOP, holding many positions—including Academic Director, Admissions Director, Registrar and Placement Director. Currently, she holds the position of Dean of Students, which allows her to concentrate on the part of NESOP she loves most—students.
In addition to her administrative duties, since 1984 she has taught the History of Photography course in the first year of the Professional Photography Program. In an effort to get firsthand experience in the field, she has traveled extensively to learn about the history of photography doing research in major collections including those of the Ransom Center at the University of Texas (home of the first photograph), the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and the Library of Congress. Marty's passion is attending seminars and conferences from Thailand to the Eastman House in Rochester, NY, as well as personally experiencing primary sources in the field of the History of Photography. She brings her personal experience in the field to the classroom and believes strongly in emphasizing the story part of history.
Yoav Horesh
Born in Jerusalem, Israel. Yoav Horesh has lived the United States since 1997 and holds a diploma from the New England School of Photography, a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and an MFA from New York’s Columbia University. He has exhibited internationally in Israel, Italy and the United States. Solo and group exhibitions including in the Palazzo Reale di Milano, Jerusalem National Theater, Nathan Bernstein gallery (NYC), Office Ops with Amnesty International, Columbia University and the Photographic Resource Center in Boston among other venues.
Yoav has been the recipient of the Mortimer Frank Travel Award, the Agnes Martin and M Roche scholarships and other awards from the Rhode Island Photographic Society, Santa Barbara Photography Award and Agora Gallery International Competition award.
Currently, Yoav is also on the photography faculty at Mass College of Art in Boston and Columbia University in New York. Some of his recent work can been viewed on his website: www.yoavhoresh.com
NESOP second-year faculty
Advertising and Commercial Photography Instructor
Bruno Debas
Boston-based photographer Bruno Debas graduated from NESOP and returned to his native country of France in 1984. There he started his professional career as an assistant for top French and European photographers, traveling all over the world. He also worked independently for clients such as Lancome, the Herald Tribune and many top theater companies, photographing portraits of actors and posters for plays. During this period, he trained in the art of fashion and lifestyle photography and learned how to photograph cars on sets for French car companies Citroen and Peugeot. In 1985, Bruno returned to the U.S. and opened his own studio. Since then, he has served many local and national clients such as AT&T, Genzyme, Lucent Technologies, Converse and others. He splits his time between running his studio and teaching at NESOP in Boston.
Being an active professional photographer, Bruno continues to study the latest trends, keeping up with all aspects of the industry, from advanced black and white printing to Photoshop to the changing technology and techniques behind camera and lighting equipment. He loves sharing the tremendous amount of industry knowledge he has acquired over the years with his students, and he is always eager to meet excited, dedicated photography lovers.
Editorial and Corporate Photography Instructors
Stephen Ostrowski
While still in high school, Stephen entered the photographic world as a photojournalist for the Nashua, New Hampshire Telegraph while also working for a local portrait and wedding business. In 1975, he enrolled in the Professional Photography Program at NESOP. After he graduated from NESOP in 1977, he made the transition into the Boston market in the commercial, advertising and editorial arenas. Stephen continued his photographic education by studying at the New England Institute for Professional Photography at the University of New Hampshire. His work has been published in magazines such as Vermont, Vermont Golf, Boston, Yankee and various trade publications and annual reports. He has created images for clients from Montreal to New York, Bermuda to Puerto Rico. Stephen has an extensive lecture background to groups on fine art subjects. He taught a variety of subjects at NESOP from 1984 to 1988 and rejoined the NESOP faculty in 2001 as an Editorial instructor. He currently teaches Editorial in the second-year program and Large Format in the first year, as well as the Creative Lighting series of courses in the Evening Workshop Program.
Dana Smith
Dana is a widely published magazine photographer, both nationally and abroad, in publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Fast Company, Fortune, Forbes, Time, Newsweek, Texas Monthly, Yankee and Boston. His work has been showcased in American Photography as well as numerous galleries. He has been teaching editorial photography in the second-year program for six years. Dana is affiliated with Black Star in New York.
Portraiture and Wedding Photography Instructors
Arthur Levi Rainville, M. Photog. Cr., CPP, API
Arthur has been called one of our industry's premier creative minds. Known for enticing photographers to be more innovative in their imagery and their business, Arthur continues to travel the country speaking with groups hungry for his inspirational message.
Working out of his studio in historic Whitinsville, MA for more than 40 years, Arthur is known for his soft, granular color work. Refinements of his life's passion lead to his lyrical Mansuesco style of today. Defying a definable formula, Mansuesco, much like Impressionism, is a plurality of looks—an innate quality of light coupled with a compositional choreography (his signature style). In a one-man show at the French Cultural Center, his work was astutely referred to as "…a synthesis of observation and imagination blended with a palette of gauzy colors." Returning photographic portraiture to an art form is his goal.
Arthur has taught professionally for 22 years and currently serves as NESOP's Academic Director as well as its Portrait Department Chair. He is an author and noted touring lecturer. His work is shown throughout the U.S., South America and Europe. His current fine art project is a book on the Venetian Burano School of Art, and he is completing a non-photographic book, Lessons from a Mockingbird.
Laura Pineda
Laura immediately connected with photography while taking her first collegiate photographic course in the early 1990s. She graduated with a BA in photography and went on to graduate with honors in Portraiture from NESOP. Immediately upon graduating, she delved directly into the Boston photography scene, where she has been a force since 1994. She founded the very successful Laura Brownlee Photography in 1995, focusing on weddings, children and family portraiture. Laura's photographic style is one of capturing elegant, timeless moments and creative imagery. She works in a photojournalistic manner, utilizing both her portraiture and photojournalistic backgrounds to quietly yet energetically create artistic images of resonant moments. Laura joined forces in 1999 with long-time friend Tiffany White to create Alternate Angles, a company founded on superior wedding coverage and outstanding variety.
Digital Arts Instructor
Sue Anne Hodges
Sue Anne has studied art and photography. She graduated from New England School of Photography in 1980 and began a career in advertising photography. For 15 years, she shot and supervised photography for a major retail advertising photo studio. In 1995, she opened her own studio where she continued to shoot for major retail clients while expanding her business to include other creative projects as well.
In 1992, Sue Anne began exploring the use of digital cameras and digital imaging technology. She studied at the Center for Creative Imaging in Camden, Maine. Digital images from her early experiments have been included in Kodak's International Photography and Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris, France. Today, the fine art of digital printmaking has become an important aspect of her use of the technology.
Sue Anne began teaching at NESOP in 1988 and discovered a passion for sharing the creative process with her students. In 1994, she helped open NESOP's first digital imaging lab and remains a specialist in Adobe Photoshop. She teaches Digital Arts in the Full-Time Professional Photography Program and the Evening Workshop Program at New England School of Photography.
Fine Art—Color Instructor
Thomas Petit
Chair of NESOP's Color department since 1975, Tom has pioneered the marriage of technical color theory and a strong sense of aesthetics. Tom expanded on his BS work from Kent State University with his MFA thesis from Rochester Institute of Technology on "Imagery of the Subconscious." Tom taught a variety of color programs at Northeastern University until he devoted his time exclusively to NESOP, developing courses in General Color, Experimental Color and Color Projects.
Tom has exhibited in forty-seven gallery shows since 1975 and has been published in numerous periodicals and books such as Darkroom Magazine, Into the Eighties, New England Photography, The Diana Show, 130 Years of Ohio Photography, The Darkroom Handbook and Art of the State—State of the Art. He has been awarded a grant from the Brockton Arts Council, was a finalist in the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and chosen a Fellow in 1976 and 1980.
Fine Art—Black and White Instructors
Stephen Sheffield
A native of the Boston area, Stephen is an alumnus of Cornell University (1988), where he obtained a BFA in Painting with a minor in Photography. He received his MFA in Photography from California College of Arts & Crafts (1993), in San Francisco. His work varies between a unique style of straight photography, as well as alternative processes, mural printing and large-scale photomontage. Stephen's combined use of these processes brings to his work a painterly feeling not usually associated with photography.
Sheffield has exhibited nationally for many years and has a number of large-scale commissions in Boston and New York City. His work has been featured in many national publications. At NESOP, he serves as an instructor of advanced photography, and he is represented in Boston by the Judi Rotenberg Gallery.
Nick Johnson
Nick Johnson has been a fine art photographer for more than 25 years. He has an extensive exhibition record, including pieces in the permanent collections of the Danforth and Fitchburg Art Museums. He is represented by the fscott gallery in Sudbury, MA. His work has been featured in Black and White magazine. Nick works exclusively with a large-format camera. In his teaching, he puts a strong emphasis on the Zone System and the creative freedom afforded by having a high level of technical skill. He has been teaching photography at NESOP for more than 12 years and is the Director of NESOP's Center for Photographic Exhibitions.
Fashion Instructor
Stephen Cicco
During his 28 years at NESOP, Steve has taught just about everything – including Beginning Camera, Advanced Camera, Basic and Advanced Black & White Darkroom, Lighting Techniques, Color Printing, Color Projects, Multi-Image Production and Business Practices. Currently he teaches Fashion in the full time program and Fashion and Beauty & Glamour in NESOP's Evening Workshop Program.
Steve has been involved in the arts in one form or another throughout his life. He has been an actor and director, a painter and a musician. He has also dabbled in filmmaking and video production. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1975 with a BA in German and in 1978 from NESOP with a concentration in Advertising. He has also studied art history at the Harvard Extension School. He began teaching in 1979.
Between 1982–1990, Steve was the Vice-President of Graficon Communications, a small graphic design and advertising agency. Among his many roles were account executive, art director and print and media buyer. He opened his own commercial photography studio in 1992, specializing in fashion and beauty. Having worked on both the agency side and the creative side of the table, he is particularly prepared to communicate to students the realities of the commercial world, from the technical to the political. He also served as the President of the Fashion Association of Boston from 1994–2000.
Advanced Business Development Instructor
Frank Herzog
With an MBA from Babson College, Frank Herzog has experience in both the worlds of photography and business. Frank has worked in global finance and managed several companies before entering into the professional photography field. He is now active in teaching the business aspect of photography to both students and working professionals. He is one of the select business instructors for the Professional Photographers of America, mentoring and lecturing on marketing and business plans.
Year Two Additional Offerings
Ron Cowie Ron Cowie is an artist. He is a master platinum printer. His lives and works in Charlestown, Rhode Island. His work has been shown nationally and internationally. He is a member of the London Photographic Association, but is not British. Ron teaches Alternative processes and fine-art portfolio making. His work has been shown in London's Paramount Studio, The Herter Babylone in Paris, France, and is held in the permanent collection of the Boston Public Library. He also privately collected and is seen at the Central Gallery in Connecticut.
His professional work is in the editorial and advertising photography market. He specializes in location portraits. Clients include The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Rhode Island Monthly, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Connecticut Magazine, Bryant University, Mystic Seaport, and Maumee Valley Country Day School.
Keitaro Yoshioka Keitaro Yoshioka was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. He came to Boston in 1982 and attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He majored in photography and studied with Bill Burk, Jim Dow, and Elaine O’Neil. While he was in school, he won the Boston Globe Photo Contest Award, Best of American College Photography Annual Award, and his work was exhibited at the New Wave International Photography Exhibition in Paris, France, as well as galleries in New York.
After the completion of both undergraduate and graduate programs at the Museum School, Keitaro started working at the Polaroid 40”x80” room-sized camera studio at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, as lead photographer. He has worked with Chuck Close, Evergon, Marie Cosindas, Ulay, and many other established artists with this camera. He has also photographed well -known art collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and has traveled in the United States and Europe photographing well -known works of art. He was involved with Picasso’s Guernica exact size reproduction project in Madrid, Spain, as well.
After nearly 10 years of working at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Keitaro went on his own. He has been working as a commercial/fine art photographer. His corporate clients include IBM, Lotus, Cisco Systems, Genzyme, Fidelity, Hitachi, P&G, Winn Company, and Segway. He does annual reports, architectural photography, portrait, and product photography for his clients.
Keitaro has won the Epson Color Imaging Grand Prix Award four times in the past, and his winning images have been exhibited throughout Japan. Recently, he had a solo exhibition at the Bumpus Gallery in Duxbury, MA. Also, he received a grant from Genzyme Corporation and had a group show at the Genzyme Corporation in Cambridge, MA.
In addition to NESOP, he is a faculty member of the photography department at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston Architectural College, and Bridgewater State College.
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