Ian McGuffie is one of the leading members of the Vancouver photographic community, with over 40 years of professional experience.  For the past nineteen years he has been director/curator of Exposure Gallery, Vancouver’s oldest photographic gallery. As an award-winning photographer his work has been exhibited in Europe, North America and Japan.  He is also President of the Vancouver Association for Photographic Arts, a society for the promotion of photography as a medium of creative and artistic expression, and a board member for the successful Capture Festival, showcasing the best in photography from Vancouver.

Jeff Bell has immersed himself in the art and technology of making pictures, after working in a corporate role in information technology and web development for ten years.  Through his professional training at Langara College, he now relishes the opportunity for expression and creativity offered by pursuing photography full-time, specializing in portraits and sports photography. www.jeffbellphoto.ca

Always pushing his own limits, Adam Blasberg found his inspiration to photography on a one-man bicycle tour of Canada from St. John’s, Newfoundland to Victoria, BC.  Dedication to perfection, professionalism and focus have helped put Adam on the map as a rising force in photography. Whether behind the lens or in front of it, his focus is people, working cooperatively with all involved to produce a flawless finished piece.  With a peerlessly sharp eye for details, Adam Blasberg brings a personal touch to his clients’ work. www.adamblasberg.com

Christopher J. Morris got his start in photography over 25 years ago shooting news and sports events in Montreal for Canadian Press, Reuters and several other newspapers. Now based in Vancouver, he has worked on assignments for MacLeans, Time, Newsweek, Hello, The New York Times, Times of London, The Observer, Der Spiegel, Stern, and many other magazines around the world, doing documentary work, news, sports, features and portraits. Currently a contributor to Corbis and Redux Pictures, Christopher has been teaching at VanArts since 2009, and most recently covered the last 3 Olympic Games, winning an Applied Arts Award for his work in London 2012.

www.christophermorris.com

Mary L.G. Jensen is an accredited portrait photographer who has been running her successful studio in Richmond, B.C. since 1986. Through giving presentations, teaching fellow photographers, and exhibiting her work, she has earned her Master of Photographic Arts designation from the Professional Photographers of Canada. Further recognition from her peers has allowed her to have the prestigious F/PPABC conferred on her, making her a Fellow of the Professional Photographers Association of British Columbia. She is accredited in both Portrait and Wedding photography.

www.artisanphotography.ca

Educated in British Columbia and California, Kaj has over 25 years experience in commercial, illustrative and stock photography working in all camera formats including 35mm, medium, 4” x 5” and 8” x 10” view cameras, and the latest digital equipment. Kaj also has extensive knowledge of and experience in lighting techniques and has owned and operated studios for over 20 years. He has been actively involved in teaching for over 20 years, and has taught at institutions such as the University of British Columbia (Centre for Continuing Education), British Columbia Institute of Technology, and other prominent local photography schools.

www.viewpointswest.com

Sandra Leung is the principal photographer and owner of Yaletown Photography and Yaletown Wedding Gallery. Sandra specializes in a artistic lifestyle approach to people photography. Her work has been published in numerous local and international publications. With 17+ years of photography and marketing & communications experience, Sandra has become one of the top wedding photographers in Vancouver. Sandra also brings a unique fashion-photojournalistic style to her wedding imagery. Each wedding celebration reveals unique beauty and emotions which she captures in her passion to create meaningful and dynamic imagery for both international and local clients alike.

As a graduate of Langara‘s Professional Photo-Imaging Program, Lisa Kaulback has found expression for her obsessive attention to detail in the world of production, a role that involves helping photographers quote and manage commercial photography shoots. Her diverse portfolio on large scale stock shoots and award winning advertising campaigns dates back to 2002 and has taken her to Australia, on an Alaskan cruise, to the mountains and the desert, and into the strange world of taxidermy. In the classroom, she is credited with high standards, demanding assignments, wit, and compelling anecdotes. Lisa’s latest project is a book she has authored on commercial production, Building Winning Bids – available on iBooks.

http://kaulbackproductions.com

Kevin Lanthier is a visual artist, commercial photographer, and digital retoucher. With his company Cake Imagery, he works with top creative agencies and advertising photographers in Vancouver and around the world, for clients including Jameson Whiskey, Ronald McDonald House, Telus, Rogers, Esso, Aritzia, CP Rail, Coast Capital, BC Hydro, The City of Vancouver, and many others. He brings this strong technical foundation from the commercial world to his fine art work, building his images from dozens, if not hundreds, of separate photographs to create scenes and convey ideas in ways not possible with traditional photography alone. His current work focuses on distilling and amplifying narratives found in urban spaces via highly controlled, concept-driven compositions. Kevin has been working with Photoshop since before he picked up a camera, and maintains a philosophy that he will use any tool or technique available to realize the images he wishes to create. He likes to bring this openness of possibilities to his students, to encourage them to try to create the images from their imagination, regardless of the constraints of the physical world around them.

http://www.kevinlanthier.com

Mauricio Orozco is an advertising and commercial photographer. Born in Mexico City and educated at the Brooks Institute in California, he now calls Vancouver his home. His philosophy is simple, to collaborate with his clients to create images of their products and ideas in a strong and clear way.  Some of his clients include Creative Engine Branding and Design, Bare Advertising, University of British Columbia, BC Hydro, BBA Engineering, Grupo Modelo, Kobex Resources Canada, Atkinsons of Vancouver among others. Some of his images are also represented by Farmboy Fine Arts.

www.orozco.ca

Patrick Koslo’s first published work was a shot of science fiction author William Gibson for the 1991 cover of West Magazine. His work has since appeared in Vancouver Magazine, B.C. Business, City Food, Common Ground, Nuvo Magazine and the Georgia Straight. He has done slideshows and lectures at Vancouver Film School, Exposure Gallery, Camera Canada College at UBC, Capilano College, The Roundhouse Community Centre, The Planetarium and various camera clubs. His work, which included 50 light painted images, appeared in the 1998 episode Killswitch of The X-Files with Twentieth Century Fox Television. He worked with Georgia Pulos on a 50th Birthday tribute to Jim Morrison of The Doors, shooting in Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Santa Barbara and Paris France. He is constantly looking for new ways to expand his conceptual, experimental photographic vision. He does not use a computer or photoshop but encourages his students to use whatever means necessary to stand out with a creative edge in today’s competitive and high-tech photographic world.

Leaving their small B.C. towns of Courtenay and Summerland in the mid-eighties and meeting at Langara‘s respected photography program led not only to a thriving partnership in business but also to a thriving partnership in life. Pink Monkey Studios, established in 1996 by the husband-and-wife team of Ross den Otter and Sarolta Dobi, has skillfully filled the portfolios of actors, models, and corporate executives from across the Lower Mainland for over a decade.  Establishing and maintaining quality relationships with all their clients, the Monkeys’ branched out to commercial and on-set film work as well, expanding the scope of their business.

www.pinkmonkeystudios.com

Scott has been a media producer, consultant and instructor since 1997.  Most recently he has worked with Identify Photo on a number of video productions as a producer and sound engineer for non-profit organizations and is an active musician and entertainer. Scott’s work experience also includes many years with the Gulf Islands Film & Television School as 3D Animation program manager, soundtrack composer, video mentor and co-producer of the school’s official YouTube Channel launch. He has developed websites, print materials and produced animation for his award-winning short Frog Song, the documentary Contact the People (2002 Sundance Film Festival premiere), plus sound design for Lisa Jackson’s NFB short Suckerfish and Richard Reeves’ camera-less animated film 1:1.

Years of traveling around the world following the surf and snow can do a lot of wonderful things to a person.  For Vairdy the people and places rekindled a passion of photography and eventually brought her back to Vancouver to study at Langara College. After graduating from the Professional Photo Imaging program, she spent the next few years between the secluded Islands of Haida Gwaii in the summertime shooting and following the competitive snowboardcross racing circuit competing across Canada.  Her competitive drive to develop as a snowboarder took her to the Andes Mountains of Chile where she was injured during training, putting a sudden end to her snowboarding career. Following some recovery time at home in Vancouver, Photography once again became her focus and before long Vairdy was assisting and learning the ropes of retouching with Commercial Photographer Philip Jarmain.  After a couple years in the commercial business, Vairdy had discovered talents and interests that she did not know existed in retouching and post-production.

With this new focus Vairdy brings to the industry her own unique style, delivering quality work to ad firms and commercial photographers here in Vancouver.

www.vairdy.com