Jimmy Hickey Central Catholic High School Portland, Oregon
Field Test Jimmy is a senior at the school, and although he’s taken photo classes, he says that he’s learned almost all of what he knows “through trial and error as well as help from other, more established photographers.”
Joe Morahan Brooks Institute Of Photography Santa Barbara, California
Kick Start Joe Morahan graduated from Brooks in December, 2005, with a degree in industrial photography. Currently working as an assistant photographer for the bodybuilding publication Iron Man, his long-term goal is free-lance advertising photography for sports...
The photos here were taken by Joel Foster during a night tour of Alcatraz, when the lighting--or lack of it--dictated that for the most part he emphasize details over vistas. The images were made on print film, the negs scanned, and color saturation and tones manipulated...
Street Scenes John's studies at Ramapo, where he is beginning his freshman year, are aimed at his goal of establishing his own photography business. He doesn't plan on waiting until he graduates to start that business, either. While in high school, where his photographs were...
Jonathan Gorr Dillard Center for the Arts Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Close Encounters It seems to be the discovery aspect of close-up photography that attracts Jonathan most at this point. He mentions the textures and contrasts that the world reveals "when you really look at it" through a macro lens. The drawback of capturing...
Jonathan Shertok Nicolet High School Glendale, Wisconsin
Interaction Now in his senior year at Nicolet, Jonathan has taken all the photo courses the school offers and has added to his studies a photo class at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee. Last year he took three independent study courses—“I was literally teaching myself,”...
Jorel studied photography, and his other high school subjects, as a home student enrolled in Vision HCP, an alternative education school. He plans to continue his photo studies at either Brooks Institute or Colorado Mountain College. Photography is already his career, as he...
Volunteering to be the photographer for the school yearbook was a bit of a reach for Katherine--she says she'd never before used a "real" camera. But she picked it up quickly. "It became my thing, and I really liked it." She joined the...