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Kenny Gray

Kenny is the Photography Program Coordinator at the Rankin Arts Center and Owner of The Art of Photography in Uptown Columbus. Kenny has over 30 years experience as a fine-art and commercial photographer and over 20 as an instructor. He was a pioneer in wedding photojournalism and studied environmental portraiture with renowned photographer William McIntosh. Kenny's fine-art photography has been widely exhibited. His last solo exhibition was "Kenny Gray: Selected Photographers, 1978-1998" at the Lamar Dodd Arts Center in LaGrange, GA. In August of 2007, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia acquired three of his fine art prints.

J. Richard Dennard

After a tour in Vietnam as a combat photographer, Richard earned a degree in photojournalism from the University of Georgia, where he also taught as an undergraduate. He owned and operated a successful wedding and portrait studio in Bainbridge, Ga., and was at various times: National Sales Manager, Midwest Operations Manager, Lab Manager and Vice President of Technology at Garrett-Lane Labs in Columbus. Richard is a recipient of both the Master Photographer and Photographic Craftsman degrees from the PPA, Professional Photographers of America. He is also a PPA National Award recipient and was the first recipient of both the Georgia Fellowship Degree and the Georgia Service degree.

Robin Trimarchi

Born and raised out West, Robin moved to Columbus in 1996 to work as a staff photographer for the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer. Her daily newspaper assignments cover schools, government, the Army, sports, sports and more sports, fun features and interesting personal profiles from across the Chattahoochee Valley. Robin's work has earned numerous state Associated Press and Georgia Press Association awards, and a first-place award for feature photography in the 2007 National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism contest.

Shannon Szwarc

Shannon earned his degree in photojournalism at Kent State University in 2002. His book project, “Wilderness Within, Wilderness Without,” documents the nine months he spent shadowing a group of teenage boys during their stay in a wilderness program for troubled youth and earned him national recognition. He has earned several associated press awards for his work in newspapers and has been published in the New York Times, USA Today, Billiard Digest, and the Army Times. He currently works as a staff photographer at the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.