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A Bit About Me

My participation in the Luxembourg Art Competition, affords an opportunity to advance intercultural cooperation and educational channels as Photographer and Creative Artist. Being a global adventurer, and teacher, my project can contribute to dialogue advancing social consciousness and cross-cultural communications. In addition to receiving a media studies Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland, my educational background is bolstered by over 25 years of journalistic photographic experience. My photographic work is an attempt to tell stories via visual imagery. My cameras are tools (ink pens) for writing/showing stories with light.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

25 years as Professor at Elgin Community College in Illinois

5 years as Editor and Photography Journalist for Culture Scope Quarterly newsletter.

Contributor to Today’s Photographer magazine.

Teacher of Film and Communication course at Hunan Mass Media College 2 years in Changsha, Hunan, P.R.C.

Teacher of Film and Cultural Studies 4 years at the Huaqiao Foreign Languages University, in Changchun, Jilin, P.R.C.

Teacher of Communication Studies at the University of International Business Economics (UIBE) 3 years in Beijing, P.R.C.

Freelance Essayist and Photographer 5 years for national magazines: Beijing Review; Touring magazine, and English Language Learner’s quarterly magazine.

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS

​Juried Group Shows – Elgin Community College Permanent Gallery; The Norris Community Center, St. Charles, Illinois; The Campbell House, Geneva, Illinois; Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois; New York Salon of Visual Arts, NYC; Gallery de Arte, Antiqua, Guatemala; and El Moro Fort in Havana, Cuba.

Solo Shows – “China Through Western Eyes” at Hunan Mass Media Technical College, Changsha, Hunan; Public Library of Changchun, Jilin; “Visual Execution Studies”, Huaqiao Foreign Language College

“Adventures in Photo Mentalics” at the VIP Photographer’s Union, Beijing; “A Changing World” at the Hafstrasse Salon, in East Berlin, Germany.er’s quarterly magazine.

PUBLICATIONS

Today’s Photographer Magazine; St. Charles Daily News; China’s Touring Magazine; Glamour Elite magazine; Visual Execution Studies book; Cultures Scope Quarterly newsletter; The Lamp Lighters; Making Cultural Adjustments: Dialogue to Harmony (New Star Press); Songs for Confucius: Poetry & Photography (The Earth Culture Press); Cultural Fusions: Passions& Creativity Converging (Earth Culture Press); Elements of Love: Poetry and Photography (The Earth Culture Press); Black In China (Earnshaw books, 2017); and American Robot (Fulton books, 2021).

MEMBERSHIPS

International Freelance Photographer’s Association; The Professional Writers' Alliance; World Congress of Poets; Nevada Story Tellers; and Poetry Promise.

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