Jonathan Shertok Nicolet High School Glendale, Wisconsin
Interaction Now in his senior year at Nicolet, Jonathan has taken all the photo courses the school offers and has added to his studies a photo class at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee. Last year he took three independent study courses—“I was literally teaching myself,”...
Sean Fryxell John Jay High School Hopewell Junction, New York
After Dark Sean, who graduated from John Jay in June, has applied to the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia, but at the time we spoke hadn’t made a decision. His studies are likely to involve a mix of...
Daniel Tückmantel RMIT University Melbourne, Australia
Preparations Daniel is a senior at the university, majoring in commercial photography. "I work mostly in the studio and love to involve complex postproduction in my images," he says. "I like preplanning the production, planning how the montage will work, then...
Sean Lamoureux New Hampshire Institute of Art Manchester, New Hampshire
Interiors Although Sean, a senior in the four-year BFA program, is well versed in digital photography--his work/study efforts call for him to photograph with a D-SLR--the images here were taken with a 4x5, a camera that's not only a part of his...
Chris White Hillsborough High School Hillsborough, New Jersey
Eyes On The Prize Chris, who is 16, took his first photographs with a disposable camera his dad gave him when he was 8, but he counts the last three years as the time of more serious efforts, mostly with a Fuji FinePix S5200.
Evan Cate Saint Francis High School Mountain View, California
Range Of Interest Evan, a junior at Saint Francis, has studied photography at the school and taken a summer class at a local community college, but he's not sure that taking photography courses is the way to go. "I don't think there's any set way to...
Jonathan Gorr Dillard Center for the Arts Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Close Encounters It seems to be the discovery aspect of close-up photography that attracts Jonathan most at this point. He mentions the textures and contrasts that the world reveals "when you really look at it" through a macro lens. The drawback of capturing...
Correspondence Kris, who is 16, has been taking pictures for seven years. His interest in photography coincides with a photography club for 4-H that he suggested to his mother, and which she started. He's largely self-taught, though he has taken online courses and one of his teachers is currently...
Street Scenes John's studies at Ramapo, where he is beginning his freshman year, are aimed at his goal of establishing his own photography business. He doesn't plan on waiting until he graduates to start that business, either. While in high school, where his photographs were...
Pippa Bianco St. Paul's School Concord, New Hampshire
Mixed Media When we talked with Pippa she'd just graduated from St. Paul's School and was getting ready to attend Yale University. She wasn't sure whether she'd be majoring in painting or photography.
Max Mikulecky
Blue Valley North High School
Overland Park, Kansas
66 West
Max, who will be going into his sophomore year at Blue Valley this month, remembers finding his dad's camera, a Canon F1, when he was in the fifth grade. "I had no idea how to work it," Max says. His dad showed him the basics, and that was a...
Gardner Mounce Houston High School Germantown, Tennessee
Control Photography will most likely stay a hobby for Gardner, a senior at Houston High School. He likes that it's something in his life that remains "stress free."
He began photographing with a film camera and switched to digital a little over a...
Christine Demeritte Spéos Paris Photographic Institute Paris, France
Imagine The photographs here are from Christine's advertising portfolio, which is geared toward high-end agencies and based, she says, "solely upon my imagination and where I would draw that line between reality and fantasy."
Jared Milgrim Brooks Institute Of Photography Santa Barbara, California
Rock On Jared will graduate this summer, but he's already well on his way to a career as a professional photographer; in fact, most would consider him already there, as he shoots assignments for musicians' promotions and CD packages, has an agency...
Mikael Wardhana RMIT University Melbourne, Australia
Best Effort
M ikael is a first-year photography student at the university, working toward a Bachelor of Arts degree. His subjects are wide-ranging (you can see the variety of his work at his website, www.mikaelwardhana.com)...