Fran Stetina began his interest in Photography while serving as an Officer
in the U.S. Coast Guard , photographing his girlfriend and soon to be wife, Mary.
He has been married to Mary for 44 years. Fran's formal photography studies began
at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC. Since then he has attended many
international workshops, most notably with the famous French Photographer Lucien
Clergue and Landscape Artist John Sexton. Fran has organized and taught his own
workshops 'Photo Treks' for over ten years. He has been a quest instructor with
artist Micheal Seewald in San Diego , California. Fran has participated in many
group and one man shows and been recipient of Maryland awards and recognitions,
and together with his partner and colleague David Orbock were the first Maryland
Artist to have a Photo exhibition in Maryland Sister State - Anhui Province China
in 1992.
Fran has traveled extensively around the world in search of the interesting
image. He has published a book of poetic essays "A Portrait of Anna".
In 1995, he became interested in Panoramic Photography. He joined the IAPP
and has been investigating the creation of 360 º Panoramic Artistic Images
for over 12 years. Fran has participated in the IAPP conventions and is presently
the President-elect of the IAPP. He has contributed many Panoramic images and
articles to the IAPP Journal and presently provides photographic book reviews.
In 2005 Fran won the Fuji Film Masterpiece award for his Abstract Panoramic
Image Gas Plant Seattle, Washington.
Vacant,
President-elect
Tom Bleich, Past-President
In the early 1960’s Tom began his life in photography
in the darkroom processing and printing 4X5 Royal Pan negatives
for his family-owned newspaper The Romeo Observer (MI), established
in 1866. He spent the next 10 years practicing photojournalism
as well as everything else involved in publishing a weekly newspaper. In
1978, while completing a degree in film at the University of
Texas at Austin, he worked in a photo lab that had a hand-made
65 X 11 inch Cirkut negative color contact printer. He
was hooked on panoramic photography and still has that printer,
as well as E.O. Goldbeck’s original contact printer. While
working as a network television news photographer and editor
in the 1980’s, he purchased his first No. 10 Cikut camera
at the February 1985 IAPP convention in Orlando Florida hosted
by Richard Fowler. He made his first Cirkut negative with
Jack Davis and Jim Lapari. Since then he has been consistently
involved with IAPP, panoramic photography and motion pictures. Tom
was in the Guinness Book of Records for five years (1993 to 1998)
for the “Longest Photograph Negative” 23 feet 4 ½ inches
by 10 inches. In 1994 he became IAPP President-Elect in
Monterey California and President in 1996 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He
currently resides in Austin with his wife Frances Cox.
Steve Delroy, Secretary
Stephen's formal education concentrated on Chemistry: (Brooklyn College, BS; Brandeis University, MA). His first jobs saw him working in the paper industry for Fortune 100 Companies where he was responsible for handling compliance issues controlled by the FDA, USDA and EPA.
After a brief stint as an independent consultant, Stephen was hired by the U.S. General Services Administration to manage environmental assessments of their high-rise office buildings in NYC. He then became the Building Manager for the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House at One Bowling Green (A National Historic Landmark building and a prime example of Beaux Arts architecture).
Mr. Delroy has had a lifelong passion for photography starting as a schoolboy. In the early 1960's he purchased his first SLR. About 10 years ago he discovered the panoramic format and has been "experimenting" with it ever since. Stephen joined IAPP just after the Cherokee, NC convention in 1996 and has attending every IAPP convention since, and most other events as well. He currently uses a Noblex 35mm, Hasselblad XPan II, and 70mm Roundshot for his panoramic images.
John McCarthy, Treasurer
I am a professional photographer with a specialty in pet photography and panoramas.
I majored in professional photography at Rochester Institute
of Technology and received my AAS in 1968 and my BS in 1970.
I went to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to receive
a Masters in Education with a major in Educational Media and
Technology.
While a junior at RIT I enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve
and retired from the U.S. Navy last November after serving 24
years in the Marine and Naval Reserves as a public relations
NCO and photographer.
I worked as a photographer for UMass Public Relations eight years
and six months for Davor studios in Philadelphia. I then had
a 28-year career with Fuji Photo Film USA in a variety of marketing,
sales, and technical positions. Currently I am the owner of Long
Leash LLC in Wilbraham MA.
Along the way I also picked up a Master Photographer and Photographic
Craftsmen Degrees from the PPA. I am also a PPA certified business
instructor and a Photographic Craftsman. I also
have a QPP from IAPP.
In addition to serving as President of IAPP, I also have served
as treasurer and president of the American Photographic Artists
Guild and the Photographic Arts and Science Foundation also known
as the International Photography Hall of Fame.
I live with my wife Mary and 12-year-old boy Yaroslav in Wilbraham
MA. Yaroslav is a budding photographer and many IAPP members
know him from his visits to the IAPP convention in Springfield
and conference in Austria.
Christian Fleury was born in Freiburg, Germany just a few miles from
the borders of both France, where his father grew up, and Switzerland.
Christian took a traditional route on his career in professional photograpy.
After graduating from college, where he majored in photography, he
worked as a photo assistant on advertising, architectural, and editorial
projects. In 1998, he moved to Berlin where he then worked as a freelance
sports and press photographer for several different sports agencies,
newspapers, and magazines. At first, his panoramic photography was
a relaxing hobby. However, in 2003, when he moved to the United States,
he became increasingly captivated by landscape and panoramic photography.
Today, Christian's primary photographic work centers around capturing
images in the 6x17 and X-pan panoramic format. His work is used for
stock photography as well as for fine art prints. Currently a resident
of Palo Alto, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Christian
loves the San Francisco Bay Area and the rich variety of the California
landscape.
Dave is a professional fine art photographer whose speciality
since 1981 has been medium and large format panoramics of people,
landscapes, and cityscapes. He works at his Baltimore studio with
a small staff of dedicated professionals who ensure that the printing
and framing of his work are of the highest caliber.
During the past 26 years Dave has photographed, in depth, many
major US cities and the countryside that surrounds them. He has
also spent considerable time hiking and photographing the National
Parks and Monuments of the United States and Canada. During travel
abroad, Dave has amassed a large collection of images from many
parts of the world. Areas photographed include most of Western
Europe, Hungary, Czech Republic, the former Yugoslavia, China and
Morocco. In February 1999 he climbed Kilimanjaro and returned again
in 2001 to climb via a different route. His most recent trips abroad
include Scotland, France, Italy, Thailand, Ireland, Portugal, and
South America (Ecuador, Bolovia, and Peru - where he hiked the
Inca trail to Machu Picchu). In 1988 Dave and Fran Stetina were
guest lecturers to the People's Republic of China. They were the
first artists to represent Maryland in a cultural exchange program
with their sister state of Anhui Provence. They were invited back
in 1993 to attend the opening of their Panoramic Photography Exhibition
in Hefei.Dave is represented by museums, galleries, and art consultants
throughout the United States. He has exhibited widely and his panoramics
have been purchased by individual collectors, museums, and major
corporations.
Jook Leung, a 360 degree panoramic photographer photo-illustrator, is internationally recognized as an innovator in spherical panoramic photography. He was recently presented with his third consecutive Fujifilm Masterpiece Award for photographic excellence in electronic
imaging for his 360 degree panorama of Times Square at Midnight on New Years Eve.
360VR Studio is a production team focused on creating panoramic images for print and online productions, with specialization in architecture, historical preservation, tourism and news events.
Richard Schneider, Editor and
Designer of Panorama
Richard has been a member of IAPP since 1993 and has served
the organization as a Director and Secretary/Treasurer. Richard
first studied panoramic and slit-scan photography in 1982 while
a student in the Master's Degree program at the Rochester Institute
of Technology, and was taught by long-time IAPP member, Professor
Andrew Davidhazy. Richard became further intriged by the medium
after befriending IAPP Charter Member Ron Klein in Juneau,
Alaska in 1985 and seeing the beautiful work that contemporary
panoramic photographers were producing. In 1992, Richard began
a career with the National Archives in Washington, DC as a
photographic preservation specialist and quickly became familiar
with the agency's historic panoramic photography holdings.
Since then he has held regional IAPP meetings at the Archives
facility in Maryland and has written several articles for Panorama
on historic panoramas. He has spoken on the subject at various
IAPP conventions from 1993 to 2005. Richard edited Panorama
in 2001-2002 and began editing and designing Panorama in 2006.
Robert Kippenberger has been a member of IAPP since 1997. Robert passion
for panorama photography started when he was 10 years old when he saw
a Eugene O. Goldbeck panorama in a photography art magazine. He studied
photography at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale and graduated in
1989 with the Highest Achievement Award.
Robert first job was doing large format product/tabletop photography
for an art/design studio in Miami for 5 years. Robert was doing photography
for Esso, American Express, Tropicana, Miami Herald, ad agencies and
various Latin American companies. After gaining experience and contacts
in the art/design field he formed his own one man photography company
called Kipp Photography, Inc. He does various forms of photography doing
corp. photography, catalog work, billboards, medical photography, portraits,
events and of course panoramas. Robert is also half Seminole Indian and
is a member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The Seminole Tribe
of Florida keeps Robert busy with the tribes purchase of the Hard Rock
franchise covering many events photographing celebrities and sport figures.
He travels to the various Seminole Indian Reservations in South
Florida doing photography of tribal Pow Wows, groundbreakings and
brochure work promoting Seminole Tribal business. He also loves photographing
the Everglades, which is where the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation
in located. It is the perfect place to photograph in the panoramic format
with endless wilderness and wildlife.
