Instructor Bios

Robert Elvin holds degrees in social anthropology, commercial photography and fine art photography from the University of Minnesota, City College of San Francisco and the San Francisco Art Institute Respectively. Commercial clients in the bay area have included Pacific Telesis Corp., Maggie Williams Public Relations, The San Francisco Wine exchange and numerous independent clients. Mr. Elvin has taught lighting at the San Francisco Photography Center since 1988. For the last ten years he has worked primarily with motion picture lighting and has been the principal technical support person for Photographers Lighting in San Francisco. He is currently in post- production on The Savant; a film written and directed by him and released in Oct 08.

Greg Goodman: To learn more about the instructor and to see some of what he's done,
go to: Adventures of a GoodMan: Photography, Storytelling and World Travel

Dianne Jones has been working in the bay area for the last 12 years. She teaches photography at Skyline College in San Bruno, CA and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. In addition to teaching, Dianne owns and operates her own photography business in Berkeley, volunteers for high-school photography programs, and has produced/coordinated numerous lectures and events in the Bay Area. For the last seven years she has been making photographs that explore evidence of the rapidly changing landscape throughout California. Some recent photographic and installation projects include work at the 40th Street Cut, Oakland Art Gallery, Urbanism Studies, The Quarterly at Latham Square, Mini Show, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, New Visions, Pro Arts, Two Artists, Gallery 555, Oakland Museum of California, The Exhibition Landscape, Moldova Young Artists Association, and Transient Landscape Art Space. She has exhibited her photographs nationally and internationally and some of her work has been in publications such as Wire Magazine, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Metro Active, Creative Alliance Peek Review, and The Oakland Tribune. She received a M.F.A. in studio art from Mills College in 2001. You can see Dianne’s work at: http://www.diannejones.com

Laura Miller owned and operated Colorarts Photographics for 20 years. Her business specialized in fine art reproduction and exhibition prints for photo artists, galleries, and design pros, and also offered a color rental darkroom and printing classes. She currently freelances as digital photo editor, printer and instructor. She is currently exploring digital color output and high-quality BW reproduction, graphic design,
and continues traditional and digital fine-art photography printing services. She
has been teaching photography and color printing for over 15 years.

Michael Starkman, M.F.A., is a fine art photographer based in San Francisco. He has been assistant professor of art at Southeastern Louisiana University and Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. His work is held in public and private collections including the Georgia Museum, the Kennedy Museum of Art, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, and the Hollar Gallery in Prague. His recent exhibitions include the Foto and Photo Festival in Cesano Maderno, Italy and Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco. For more info and to see his work, go to his website: www.michaelstarkman.com 

Roxanne Worthington owns Last Avenue Studio and has taught photography classes in the Bay Area for several years. She started her photography career taking classes at U.C. Berkeley Extension where she had the good fortune to learn the skill and art of photography from many of the Bay Area’s finest photographers. She is an active and productive photographer who has shown her work both nationally and internationally.