Honored Educator
Society for Photographic Education
Honored Educator 2009 - Northwest Region
PAUL BERGER
“Paul Berger has been at the forefront of the new wave of photographic education for almost 30 years, changing his views all along the way. His students have challenged the discipline consistently, and, more importantly, make and continue to make work nothing like his. That, in my view, is the true test of a great teacher.”. . .Rod Slemmons, Executive Director, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago.
Paul Berger has been working in the photographic medium since 1965, and in digital electronic media since 1981. He earned a BA degree in Art at UCLA in 1970 and an MFA from SUNY Buffalo / Visual Studies Workshop in 1973. Paul is currently a Professor of Art at the University of Washington’s School of Art, where he was a cofounder of the Photography Program in 1978. Although trained in a classical photographic tradition, he has been primarily involved in digital manipulation of electronic images since the mid 1980’s, and initiated such study within the photography curriculum at UW beginning in 1985.
Paul Berger has exhibited nationally and in Europe, in both solo and group exhibitions. In 2003 the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago presented a retrospective exhibition “Paul Berger: 1973-2003.” The presentation was reviewed in Artforum that same year.