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Nikon School Instructors

Nikon School instructors are award-winning, nationally recognized digital experts. These professional photographers know what it takes to make great images. They're experienced at communicating their insights so that students at every level can improve their photographic skills.
	Bill Durrence Bill is a professional photographer primarily involved with travel and location-based assignments. With over 35 years experience in editorial, corporate, and commercial photography, he is also a photography instructor and consultant. A former member of the Nikon Professional Services tech team, Bill taught at the Nikon School for over ten years. He is currently an associate with Blue Pixel, a major digital imaging consulting firm.
	Reed Hoffmann Over 25 years, Reed started in studios, then worked at newspapers, and now freelances out of Kansas City. He has been shooting digital since 1996 and teaching digital photography since 2000. Nationally recognized as an expert on digital photography, Reed has helped over 30 U.S. and Asian news organizations ease their transition to digital. He is also a founding member of Blue Pixel, a major digital imaging consulting firm.
	Michael A. Schwarz Michael is an Atlanta-based freelance photojournalist and digital photography consultant. He is a three-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize and a recipient of the Dag Hammarskjöld Award for Human Rights Advocacy Journalism, and he was chosen by Life magazine as one of the country’s outstanding young photographers. A frequent exhibitor and lecturer on photojournalism, Michael has completed more than 2,000 assignments for major national publications.
	Nick Didlick Nick has been a professional photographer for nearly 30 years, and while working assignments for wire services and newspapers, he has seen the world through the viewfinders of his Nikon cameras. He was one of the early pioneers of digital camera capture and abandoned film-based photography for digital in 1994! Currently, he is an editorial and commercial photographer specializing in digital imaging as well as a digital imaging consultant, Web designer, and lecturer.
	Bob Pearson Bob spent most of his career as a photographer for wire services, covering political campaigns in the US and South and Central America, the U.S. invasion of Panama, the first Gulf War in Kuwait, Olympic and Pan American Games, Masters Golf, and World Cup Soccer. In 2003 he was promoted to Director of Photography for North America for AFP (Agence France Presse). He left that position in 2006 to move to the hill country of Texas and start a freelance career in commercial and editorial photography.
	Mark Kettenhofen Mark is a graduate of Syracuse University’s Military Photojournalism program. He spent 20 years covering the world as a Naval cameraman in more than 42 countries. Mark has been on assignments that include NASA Shuttle launches, expeditions to Base Camp of Mount Everest, extreme river trips down the Colorado River, six Presidential inauguration ceremonies, World Cup Soccer and six Olympics games. He is an award-winning photographer including the prestigious National Press Photographer’s Military Photographer of the Year and is co-author of the book, “America from 500 Feet II”. Mark has just celebrated his 10th year as a Professional Markets Technical Representative with Nikon Professional Services.
	Mark Suban Mark provides consulting and technical support to professional photographers, including newspaper, industrial, police and forensic, medical photography, commercial studios, audio-visual production houses and the U.S. Government. Mark previously worked at the Associated Press with photo editors, bureau chiefs and news editors in all 50 states. His photographic roots started in the U.S. Air Force where for 21 years he managed photographers for presidential inaugurations, developed and taught multimedia curriculum, planned and operated photo workshops and managed Air Force multimedia centers in Europe and in Washington DC. He is currently a full-time professional photographer with Nikon Professional Services, based in the Washington DC area.