Instructors

John has been a professional photographer serving the central Indiana market for over 20 years. He has a broad range of experience in both consumer and commercial photography. In addition, John has served as an adjunct instructor at Ivy Tech Community College in the Visual Communications Department where he has instructed students in visual design, Photoshop and photography. As a commercial photographer his current focus is on architectural photography and business portraits. He was the commissioned photographer for both Lucas Oil Stadium and the Indianapolis International Airport. His portfolio can be viewed at www.mediawright.com.

Geoffrey Bjork is a professional graphic and industrial designer. Before forming GBI (Geoffrey Bjork Inc.) in 1986, he worked for both corporations and consultant firms in Denver, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Milwaukee. Since that time, the GBI client list has included national accounts such as Discover Card, GE Capital, Allstate, and Sears. Local Indianapolis accounts include Car Brite, Eli Lilly, George F. Cram, Holloway House, Macmillan Publishing, and St Vincent Hospital.GBI specializes in brand development, business-to-business and consumer-directed marketing collateral, packaging, direct mail, and sales promotion. In addition to providing effective graphic solutions, Geoff enjoys an excellent reputation with clients for his strong marketing savvy and technical knowledge. Geoff is a graduate of Colorado Institute of Art and taught graphic design at Herron School of Art. Geoff has been using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop for his design work since 1995.

Mindy McCain trained as an art teacher and spent 10 years as a fiber artist traveling the art fair circuit showing her handwoven one-of-a-kind artwear and limited production clothing.  Following this, she studied graphic design and has continued to work in the advertising/marketing arena for the last 20 years. For 18 years she worked as a designer and technical manager at Miller Brooks, an Indianapolis based advertising agency. As the technical manager at Miller Brooks, Mindy trained the staff designers in the new features of all Adobe software for each new version of the creative suite. She also setup mini-classes for particular features of InDesign for groups and one-on-one training. Mindy has been an adjunct instructor at Herron School of Art, and also writes documentation for and trains users in the use of content management systems for web sites. She is highly skilled in Adobe  software (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Flash) and in  HTML, CSS and content management systems for web production.
 

With a degree in graphic art from Ray-Vogue Design School in Chicago, Emily has worked in the photography industry for 24 years, starting as a traditional retoucher and art/production manager for a local Master Studio.  As part of Fuji’s Professional Team she has taught digital workflow software management and retouching seminars on the PPA convention circuit.  For the past thirteen years she has managed her own studio in Indianapolis providing retouching, printing and photo-restoration services to the photographic industry.  As writer, poet, photographer, and digital artist she enjoys teaching private workshops and sponsored classes across the US and in Canada, NewZealand, Japan, France and Ireland.  Experience her enthusiasm for teaching while learning skills to improve your portraits!

Troy currently serves as an adjunct professor with Butler University, where he teaches News Photography, Troy has been a professional photographer since 1987. He graduated in 1986 with a bachelors degree in (Photo) Journalism from Ball State University, where he had the privilege of being instructed by NPPA Founder Joseph Costa. After graduation, Troy was a staff photographer for three of Indiana's award winning daily newspapers (Lebanon, Greenfield and Goshen.) His work as a news photographer has been recognized by booth UPI of Indiana and the Hoosier State Press Association. Troy began his wedding photography business 15 years ago, and quickly became one of the most well known Documentary-Style Wedding Photographers in Central Indiana. Troy uses Lightroom and Photoshop on a daily basis in his business.