Thomas Carabasi, B.A., M.F.A.

Department Head

Princeton University; Tyler School of Art. Guest lecturer and instructor, International Center for Photography. Grant recipient: Pennsylvania Council of the Arts; Australian Council of the Arts. Numerous national and international exhibitions. Work published in ZOOM, Popular Photography, and View Camera. Collections include: Philadelphia Museum of Art; Center for Creative Photography; John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

Sally Pettibon, B.F.A., M.F.A.
Department Coordinator

Eckerd College; California College of the Arts; University of South Florida. Nationally exhibited photographic artist with numerous exhibitions and awards. Collections include John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art and Center for Fine Art Photography. Private collections in New York, California, Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia and Florida. Former staff photographer for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and freelance editorial photographer in New York and Florida. Client list includes New York Times, New York Law Journal, Newsweek, Washington Post, Washingtonian, Associated Press, Agence France Press and Silver Image Agency. Member: Society for Photographic Education.

Phillippe Diederich

Phillippe graduated from the New England School of Photography, Boston, MA. An award-winning photojournalist with over fifteen years experience, Phillippe has covered news and feature assignments in the U.S. and Latin America for major national publications. He is a freelance photographer and regular contributor to The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fortune, Atlantic Monthly, Mother Jones, Toronto Star, Cigar Aficionado, The Village Voice, The Washington Post, Sarasota Magazine, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Gulfshore Life Magazine, and Getty Images.  In 1992 he consulted the photography department at El Listin Diario, the Dominican Republic’s largest daily newspaper, as it upgraded to a color digital press. Phillippe has exhibited widely in the U.S. including shows at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona, FL, the Center of Contemporary Art in Miami, FL, the Houston Art Car Museum, the State Capitol in Tallahassee, FL, the galleries at Florida Atlantic University and the El Paso Art Museum in El Paso, TX.  His works are part of the permanent collection of the Southeast Museum of Photography as well as various private collections. He is the recipient of the Florida Artist Fellowship in photography. www.phillippediederich.com 

Mary Foltz, B.F.A., M. F. A.

Carnegie-Mellon University; School of Visual Arts at Penn State University; The Rhode Island School of Design. Her mentors at The Rhode Island School of Design were Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Frederick Sommer, Lisette Model, Gary Winogrand and Lee Friedlander. She was previously a professor at Drexel University’s College of Design where she developed the photography curriculum. M.K. was awarded a series of four Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellowships to lecture and consult on photography and digital imaging in the 21st century at institutions of higher learning and photo museums in Hungary 2003, Czech Republic 2004, Lithuania 2005 and Turkey 2006. The Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and the Department of State sponsored her lectures. She has been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Photography; multiple artist support grants from Kodak and Polaroid; a Florida Artist Enhancement Grant; an Atlantic Center for the Arts Award Grant for an Associate Artist-in-Residency with Master Artist, Graciela Iturbide funded by a Mexico–Florida Cultural Exchange; and two Florida Artist Resource Grants. M. K. has served as an invited portfolio reviewer for the International Meeting Place at the FotoFest International Biennial; is a former consultant for Time-Life Books, Inc.; an appointed member of the Kodak Education Advisory Council for three years; and panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts Southeast fellowships in photography. Her publications include: Graphis, Print, Photo Design, Texas Monthly, Abrams, Aperture, and American Photo. She has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions, and her works are represented in the permanent collections of the Tampa Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Atlanta High Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cincinnati Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art in Maine and Oregon, Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, International Museum at GEH in Rochester, et. al. www.mkfoltz.com

Dee Hood, B.A., M.F.A.

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Thomas Lindley, B.F.A., M.F.A.

Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Photographic Arts and Science; Syracuse University, College of Visual and Performing Arts. Freelance photographer and digital design consultant since 1975. Publications and presentations include: Catskill Mountain Region GUIDE Magazine; Photo District News; Popular Photography Magazine; Creative Darkroom Techniques; Photography Annual; New York City Production Artists Association; Albany Creative Club; and Golub Corporation/Price Chopper Supermarkets. Client list includes: Simon & Schuster, General Electric, AT&T, RCA, Johnson & Johnson, Eastman Kodak, and Sesame Street Magazine. Numerous gallery/art exhibitions throughout New York. www.thomaslindley.com 

Giovanni Lunardi, M.S.

Universita’ degli Studi di Parma, Italy [Geology]. Over four decades of past professional photographic experience includes: work appearing on the covers of over 3,000  international and U.S. fashion magazines and publications [Annabella, Arianna, Bella, Linea Italiana, Mia, Top Sante' Gioia, Grazia, Simplicity, Vogue Pattern]; advertising campaigns [Moto Guzzi, Club Med, La Standa, Bloomingdales, Avon]; documentary production with Italian Public Service Broadcaster Rai; set photography and production assistance under directors Bernardo Bertolucci [Prima della rivoluzione] and Antonio Pietrangeli [La Parmigiana; La visita]; photographer assistance to Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, David Bailey and Guy Bourdin at Vogue’s studios. His works were published in Parma anni sessanta, a collection of black and white images taken during the sixties in Parma. Selected collections of his 3D artworks have been shown in Milano Cortina D’ampezzo, Parma, the New Arts Gallery in Litchfield, CT and galleries in Sarasota, FL.  Giovanni is the proprietor of Lunardi Photography, a Sarasota-based Photographic Digital studio. The studio’s images are distributed in over 15 countries across the globe.  www.lunardi.com

Joyce True, B.F.A.

Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, CA. Joyce is currently president/owner of True Photography and Digital Imaging, Sarasota, FL [previously located in San Rafael, CA]. She previously worked as photographic coordinator and industrial photographer for Pacific Gas & Electric Co., San Francisco, CA. www.sarasotaphotography.com

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