Instructors

Richard A. Johnson

Instructor of Photography
tel: 610.359.5014 office: 2318
email: rjohnso2@dccc.edu

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Richard A. Johnson is a landscape photographer and a native of Philadelphia who utilizes panoramic and large format cameras to create his dynamic images. Over the past two decades he has created twenty black-and-white portfolios, including images from East coast as well as the South and Northwestern United States. Johnsons works have been featured in the #70 issues of the international publications Black & White (U.K.), LensWork (U.S.) and LensWork (U.S.) Extended CD in 2007. Richard's work has been featured in over sixty solo and group exhibitions, as well as several television programs on photography.

Johnson has studied with acclaimed master landscape photographers such as Dan Burkholder, Howard Bond, Steve Crouch & Huntington Witherill, David Michael Kennedy and Bob Talley. Johnson has also been awarded both an Instructor's Scholarship (Santa Fe Workshops) and a Portfolio Project grant from Kodak. He has also worked extensively with the Philadelphia Museum of Art on a variety of different projects and initiatives including teaching educators as part of Museum's Learning To Look Workshop, participating as visiting artist for "Art Speaks" (an art and literacy program for Philadelphia's 4th graders and as a member of the Museum's Teachers Advisory Group to develop K -12 curricula in Art. Johnson was also selected by the Museum to be an Artist in Residence, for the Art & Summer Teen Program in Photography in 2006.

Richard Johnson currently teaches various courses on traditional black & white photography (beginning, intermediate and advance levels), digital black & white and color photography/printing at Delaware County Community College in Media, Pennsylvania. In 2006, Richard A. Johnson received The Excellence In Teaching Award by the College for Adjunct teaching. Johnson also serves as Director of the DCCC Art Gallery, which represents a diverse range of work from regional artists as well as the College's Art and Design students. Richard A. Johnson's work is part of numerous private and public collections including the Pennsylvania Department of Education, The Free Library of Philadelphia Archives of Pictures & Prints, University of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson University, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Corporation, The Philadelphia Convention Center, and Haverford College's Comfort Gallery.

John Newell

John Newell's photography is devoted to a dynamic range of organic subject matter. Newell has exhibited his work in various one person, group and invitational shows throughout the region, including the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Zone One Gallery and at Philadelphia City Hall. Newell is currently represented by The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA and has nearly 100 photographs in private, institutional, and corporate collections.

In addition to teaching, Newell does commercial and portrait photography, intaglioprint making, lithography, painting and also experiments with alternative photographic processes.