Members of the Group

Sam Wang

Born in Beijing and raised in Hong Kong, Sam received his MFA in photography from the University of Iowa and taught at Clemson University for 40 years. His work evolved from multiple imagery to photo-silkscreen, to using cameras that he constructed, a variety of alternative printing processes, and digital. Much of his recent work combines digital imagery with alternative printing processes: platinum/palladium, cyanotype, and gum.

Christina Z. Anderson

Christina is an assistant professor of photography at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana. Her specialties are experimental and alternative processes. She received her undergraduate degrees in French from the University of Minnesota, painting and photography from Montana State University, and an MFA in photography from Clemson University. She
has written three books--The Experimental Photography Workbook, Tutti Nudi - Reflections on the Reemergence of the Nude during the Italian Renaissance and Alternative Processes, Condensed: A Manual of Gum Dichromate and Other Contact Printing Processes. In the works is a book devoted solely to gum printing. To see Christina's work, visit CZAphotography.com

Dewey Ervin

A Texan, who immigrated to South Carolina, I’ve practiced Orthopaedic Surgery for 30 years in Florence. I’m married to a Real Artist (Donna Goodman) who has opened lots of doors for me, including this exceptional trip to China. To join eleven remarkable photographer/artists was an opportunity “way over the top”. Traveling, talking, watching the shooting styles, and eating with these guys was a prodigious experience.

Photography is a passion for me. Capturing frozen slices of life is pure fun. Once a film and wet darkroom photog, I feel I’ve been set free by the digital era, able to shoot, manipulate, and print all in my digital living room. You can see examples of my work on a wall in the WC of a restaurant in Shanghai.

Donna Goodman

Raised on a twenty-mule team tobacco, cotton, pig, and cow farm on the cusp of a Carolina Bay; Donna H. Goodman is a native of Sumter County in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina. She is Professor Emeritus of Art at Francis Marion University in Florence, SC. Goodman started producing digital images in 1993. Since then, her work has been included in over seventy nationally juried exhibitions and fifteen international exhibitions. Her work may be viewed by clicking here.

Kim Rushing

Kim grew up in Tylertown Mississippi. He studied photojournalism at the University of Southern Mississippi then gave it up for a BFA from East Tennessee State University. He finished his formal education at University of Texas with an MFA in photo. Kim finally returned to Mississippi to begin the first BFA emphasis in photography in the State. The curriculum received NASAD accreditation in 1994, at which time he intended to leave the Mississippi Delta. His feet got stuck in some gumbo mud and is still there improving his photo program.

Michael Sinclair

I was born in Edmonton, Alberta, an air force brat who caught the travel bug early. After getting a BA in economics and spending too many years working in Dilbert-ville, I took up photography full time about 4 years ago. A workshop in historic photographic processes led to my current concentration on digital negatives for albumen and platinum/palladium prints, which I pursue from my home about an hour's drive northwest of Toronto.

Joe Tomasovsky

I grew up on the Gulf Coast, graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi and attended LSU for post -graduate studies in Education. I moved to Florida and taught photography for 28 years before moving back to the Gulf Coast last year, just before Katrina came ashore. I enjoy the creative possibilities that come with integration of digital imaging with conventional photography.

Ellis Anderson

Writer, community activist and rank amateur photographer. I'm also the author of this blog and feel very honored that the group trusted me with the task. Joe Tomasovsky is my friend who graciously invited me to share this once-in-a-lifetime event. Unfortunately, I'm not related to Chris and Tom Anderson, other members of the tour who ended up feeling like family.

update, 2011: My book, "Under Surge, Under Siege, the Odyssey of Bay St. Louis and Katrina," was published by University Press of Mississippi in 2010. It features 50 images by Joe and me. I'm currently a freelance writer/photographer living in Bay St. Louis, MS.