DF Connors – Biography

Studied filmmaking & photography at University of Notre Dame & UCLA; studied still photography with Barbara Blondeau; studied photography in workshops with Richard Stevens, Howard Bond, Michael Smith and Paula Chamlee; studied platinum/palladium printing with Robert Borsuk. Taught filmmaking, aesthetics, documentary film and the Great Books Seminar at UND.

Own and operate a motion picture and video production company specializing in documentaries and corporate communications for over 25 years. Productions have been screened on A&E and The History Channel.

Winner of numerous motion picture and video industry awards for directing and camera work including two Cine Golden Eagles; Gold, Silver & Bronze awards in NY International Film Festivals; Silver in the Chicago International Film & Television Festival, US Industrial Film Festival Gold, Gold Addy Awards, Gold Camera Award, etc.

Photograph commercially and personally in US, Europe, Africa.

Co-founder and currently teaching with Princeton Photographic & Digital Imaging Workshops (ppdiw.org), specializing in digital shooting techniques and digital darkroom techniques, including workshops overseas (UK, France, Italy.

Photographs exhibited, sold & published:

Associated Press; New York Times; Bunte Illustrierte
Book: “A Child Goes to School” - Doubleday
Syracuse University Art Museum – group show - 1990
Montgomery Cultural Center, Montgomery Township NJ – Best of Show 1997
Phillips’ Mill Photographic Exhibition 2001, Bucks County, PA
Perkins Center for the Arts Photography 21, 2002, Moorestown, NJ
Phillips’ Mill Photographic Exhibition 2002 – Best of Show "Long Fence I"
Phillips’ Mill Photographic Exhibition 2004, Patrons Award "Ellipsis of Memory - I"
Phillips’ Mill Photographic Exhibition 2005
Phillips’ Mill Photographic Exhibition 2006 - Juror
Gallery 14, Hopewell, NJ – co-founder; multiple group & solo shows
Gallery V, New York, NY - two solo shows 2002, 2003
Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY - group show 2005
Schotland Gallery, Flemington, NJ – solo show 2007
Private collections in US and abroad – sold in shows and on internet.

DF Connor's web site:
www.dfconnors.com

Back