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Faculty
- John Michael Coppinger
John Michael has been photographing and teaching photography for 32 years.
He began his career in London, England as apprentice to John Vickers the noted theatrical photographer of the Old Vic Theater.
John Michael returned to the United States in 1973, and through a series of serendipitous circumstances, took a position as a medical ophthalmic photographer at Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, California. There he started a series of photographic workshops to teach resident ophthalmologists and medical technicians this specialized type of photography.
In 1983 he moved his family and business to Shaftsbury, Vermont, and created a series of national and international workshops in ophthalmic photography.
In 1997 he began a photographic documentary project in northwest Nicaragua as part of the Bennington- Somotillo, Nicaragua Sister City Project. From that work he developed his own small non-profit organization, the Rural Eyeglasses Project. This Eyeglasses Project teaches local community members how to evaluate the vision needs of individuals in rural communities and how to distribute eyeglasses.
Mr. Coppinger's photographic work spans four areas, his documentary work in Nicaragua, his Vermont landscape photography, his artistic hands project, and his Digital White Magic Project, an electronic coloration process in which he converts silver gelatin images into reinterpreted color representations.
Mr. Coppinger also offers digital photographic classes at his Shaftsbury studio.
- Denice Barsness, CRA, COMT, ROUB
Denice Barsness, CRA, ROUB, COMT, FOPS is the director of the California Pacific Medical Center Department of Ophthalmology Ophthalmic Diagnostic Center in San Francisco, California. She has been an ophhtalmic technologist and photographer since 1979. Her current duties include the supervision of a technical staff of four at the ODC. She is a past president of the Ophthalmic Photographers Society.
She has been affilitated with JMC Eye Photo since 1984. In addition, she is the sole proprietor of EyeQEducation, an ophthalmic education consulting service. Over the past 25 years she has taught for the Oregon Academy of Ophthalmology, ASORN, JCAHPO, ATPO and the OPS . She developed a national program for biometry instruction for Allergan, Inc. in 2000-2003.
She has been the general chairman for many regional and national education programs for various organizations. She produces an annual continuing education program for the CPMC Department of Ophthalmology .
Denice is married with an 14 year old son. She and her family are avid bicyclists, hikers and love to camp in the western states. She is admittedly completely smitten with being a mother.
She believes that teaching is the highest form of understanding.
- James Gilman, CRA
James Gilman is currently the Project Administrator for the Ophthalmic Imaging Department for the Moran Eye Center. He has been in Ophthalmic Photography for 26 years and won numerous awards for images and videos in the Annual Scientific Exhibit for the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgeons. He has authored articles in ophthalmic journals and published images in several ophthalmology books. He has been teaching and lecturing at annual Academy meetings and served on the Board of Directors and Board of Education for the Ophthalmic Photographers' Society. Mr. Gilman has previously exhibited fine art photography in galleries in Altanta.
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