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Mentor | Leslie Bryn Alsheimer

WEBSITE | www.santafedigitaldarkroom.com

Leslie Bryn Alsheimer is a dynamic and patient instructor who facilitates the learning process with fun and enthusiasm in a relaxed environment. She has worked extensively with many of the foremost digital image makers in the country, and integrates a hybrid of experience, teaching styles and technical knowledge into her unique curricula. With Santa Fe Digital Darkroom, Leslie travels to work with clients as a creative imaging consultant, private instructor, and trainer as well as providing professional digital darkroom services. She specializes in helping photographers transition into digital technology and processes with ease, using collaborative image processing and printing techniques in a calibrated workflow.

As a professional freelance photographer, a member of the Adobe Photoshop Beta Testing Team and an instructor with the Nikon Mentor Series, Leslie’s knowledge and expertise of both traditional and digital photographic darkroom techniques allow her to bring significant passion, experience and enthusiasm to all she does in this field.

Leslie believes in using photography to help empower others to find their own creative voice and vision. She was the creative director of the published book, Reality from the Barrio, a social documentary honored in the PDN Photography Annual 2003-The Best Photos of the Year. Inspired by a wet darkroom program that Leslie developed and directed for a non-profit gang diversion program, the book became a thesis project for Leslie’s master’s degree in social work.

Leslie is currently developing Forward Focus, a non-profi t magazine that publishes both photographic and literary works that foster or promote positive social change. The magazine celebrates what people are doing to create a better world- supporting and encouraging acts of connection, compassion and contribution, i.e. publishing works that matter.