Jimmy Hickey Central Catholic High School Portland, Oregon
Field Test Jimmy is a senior at the school, and although he’s taken photo classes, he says that he’s learned almost all of what he knows “through trial and error as well as help from other, more established photographers.”
Grant Westhoff Edwardsville High School Edwardsville, Illinois
Assignments Let’s see…sports, politics, music, senior portraits. No surprise, as Grant Westhoff, a senior at Edwardsville High School, is on the staff of the school yearbook, freelances for a local newspaper, and photographs for the school district.
Nick Burden Mountain Vista High School Highlands Ranch, Colorado
Journeys A junior at Mountain Vista, Nick’s photography has received awards from Nature’s Best Photography for Kids magazine and the North American Nature Photography Association. His interest in photography stems from his father, a professional photographer. He remembers...
Jonathan Shertok Nicolet High School Glendale, Wisconsin
Interaction Now in his senior year at Nicolet, Jonathan has taken all the photo courses the school offers and has added to his studies a photo class at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee. Last year he took three independent study courses—“I was literally teaching myself,”...
Sean Fryxell John Jay High School Hopewell Junction, New York
After Dark Sean, who graduated from John Jay in June, has applied to the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia, but at the time we spoke hadn’t made a decision. His studies are likely to involve a mix of...
Daniel Tückmantel RMIT University Melbourne, Australia
Preparations Daniel is a senior at the university, majoring in commercial photography. "I work mostly in the studio and love to involve complex postproduction in my images," he says. "I like preplanning the production, planning how the montage will work, then...
Sean Lamoureux New Hampshire Institute of Art Manchester, New Hampshire
Interiors Although Sean, a senior in the four-year BFA program, is well versed in digital photography--his work/study efforts call for him to photograph with a D-SLR--the images here were taken with a 4x5, a camera that's not only a part of his...
Chris White Hillsborough High School Hillsborough, New Jersey
Eyes On The Prize Chris, who is 16, took his first photographs with a disposable camera his dad gave him when he was 8, but he counts the last three years as the time of more serious efforts, mostly with a Fuji FinePix S5200.
Evan Cate Saint Francis High School Mountain View, California
Range Of Interest Evan, a junior at Saint Francis, has studied photography at the school and taken a summer class at a local community college, but he's not sure that taking photography courses is the way to go. "I don't think there's any set way to...
Jonathan Gorr Dillard Center for the Arts Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Close Encounters It seems to be the discovery aspect of close-up photography that attracts Jonathan most at this point. He mentions the textures and contrasts that the world reveals "when you really look at it" through a macro lens. The drawback of capturing...