Son beş yıl ya da daha fazladır fotoğrafçılığın savunuculuğunu yapmaya ve sanata adanmış iki mail grubu kurarak fotografik eğitim vermeye çalışıyorum. Photoforum ve Photored bana büyük haz veriyor, zamanımın çoğunu ve enerjimi alıyor. Umarım bunlara  değer.

Bana, öğrencilerim, bölümüm ve okulum adına büyük mutluluk sağlayan, diğer okullardaki çok az fotoğrafçılık öğrencisinin deneyimine sahip olduğu fotografik konuları öğretmenin yanı sıra bir büyük faaliyetim daha var. Şekillendirme ve Fotografik Teknoloji öğrencileri benim için çok özeller ve onlarla müfredat dışı tüm bu çeşit etkinlikleri düzenlemek ve iştirak etmek çok eğlenceli ve tatmin edici. Herkesin arzu edebileceği,  çok ilham verici, meslektaşlar arasındaki profesyonel yaşamımı geliştirmeme fırsat veren bu durumdan dolayı da gerçekten çok şanslıydım. Rochester Enstitüsü teknoloji sokağındaki pizza partilerinden  Boston, Washington ya da Houston'daki Kennedy Uzay Üssü'ne,  kadar olan gezilerin hepsi harika idi.

Andrew Davidhazy

Professor and Chair

Imaging and Photographic Technology

School of Photographic Arts and Sciences

Rochester Institute of Photography

web: www.rit.edu/~andpph

 
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I am a member and Chair of the Imaging and Photographic Technology Department of the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. I have been with the school since 1979 but have actually been at the Institute since 1961 when I came to RIT as a student.

At RIT I obtained degrees in Photographic Science, Professional Photographic Illustration and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design. While specializing in scientific and technical aspects of photography I am almost equally active in the application of technical imaging concepts to aesthetic purposes.

I have lectured and exhibited worldwide and my writings have been published in numerous books, articles and journals including Popular  Photography, American Photo, Industrial Photography, Camera, etc. I was the Inaugural Kodak Visiting professor to Australia in 1992 and have been an exhibitor and guest lecturer at photographic educational institutions in Sweden, France, Brazil, Argentina and many other societies and organizations nationwide.

My specialty is in the area of scanning photography, especially panoramic and peripheral portraiture. I described a novel derivative process that I called the Phoenix Process which is based on a further elaboration of Polaroid Type 667  3000 speed black-and-white material.

I have also developed an unusual rotating film panoramic and peripheral camera and built several prototype scanning cameras and enlargers. With the latter I have made enlargements that exceed 30 continuous metres in length. With a camera like this I made one continuous photograph of the whole 2 Km length of East Avenue in Rochester.

I was awarded a NASA ASEE Summer Fellowship and spent a summer at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA doing research and providing consulting services in the area of high speed photography.

In short, my main areas of technical interest are the basics of just about any photo/imaging technique or process applied to visualization and/or analysis of engineering and scientific phenomena that require more than a standard or conventional camera to achieve the desired results. My "specialty," if there is any, has been the development and dissemination of information regarding improvised and simplified techniques particularly in the areas of schlieren, high-speed, and strip/streak applications.

What first interested me in the field of optics and photonics were UFOs (!) and just plain photography. I was early on fascinated by how one could visualize events normally unseen by human eyes, how one could make "special effects" (such as fake UFO pictures) and amaze friends and relatives, and also by the fact that people were willing to pay for photographic services of various kinds. I started consulting on a small scale very early in my career.

I have been involved in various quite interesting projects having to do with authentication of photographic imaging. One was with the House Select Committee working on a reexamination of the photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle and lately I was called upon to authenticate a photograph of O. J. Simpson wearing some shoes he claimed never to have owned. I have also worked on purported photographic evidence of force fields in the vicinity of Stonehenge and crop-circles in that general area. I periodically am asked to determine whether "ghosts" are present in photographs. I have taken serious work seriously but have also enjoyed a laugh or two based on this type of activity.

Professionally I have been primarily active in the High-Speed Photography and Photonics working group of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) over the years. I attend and periodically present papers at the International Congress on High Speed Photography and Photonics. Recently I became a member of the SPIE Education Committee.

I've received IS&T's Raymond Bowman award for teaching, the RIT Eisenhart Outstanding Teaching Award at RIT. I am a Fellow of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) and a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE).

A listing of my lectures, conferences, and publications would be somewhat too extensive to include here. Suffice it to say that most of my publications have been of a general kind and published in the popular press rather than in scientific journals. You can find a listing of these if you go to my web site, http://www.rit.edu/~andpph.

One of my major influences undoubtedly were Dr. Harold "Doc" Edgerton, Mr. William Hyzer, Dr. Jeff Courtney-Pratt, and Dr. Kenneth C. D. Hickman who encouraged me to publish.

I am married and share my personal life with Sue who has been a friend and companion for many years. We probably should do more canoeing together than we do currently but things are good. She does the lawn. ;-)

My favorite hobbies are photography, travel, writing, lecturing, playing hopefully harmless pranks on friends.

For the last five years or so I have tried to be an advocate for photography and photographic education by establishing two mail lists dedicated to the profession. PhotoForum and Fotored bring me great pleasure and also take up a lot of my time and energy. I hope it is all worthwhile.

I do have one other major activity (besides teaching photographic subjects that few photography students get to experience at other schools) that brings me much satisfaction and that is my work on behalf of the students and faculty in my department and school. I was truly lucky to have been given a chance to develop my professional life among some of the most inspiring colleagues anyone could hope for. The Imaging and Photographic Technology students are very special to me as well. It is fun and rewarding to organize and participate in all kinds of extracurricular activities with them. From pizza parties in Tech Alley at RIT or field trips to Kennedy Space Center, Boston, Washington or Houston it is all just great fun.

Andrew Davidhazy

Professor and Chair

Imaging and Photographic Technology

School of Photographic Arts and Sciences

Rochester Institute of Photography

web: www.rit.edu/~andpph