We might know how to compose elements in an image and how to produce the colors and tones we want, but how do we raise our photography above simply producing well-exposed, well-edited, well-arranged, 2-dimensional visual sentences? When does the photograph go from descriptive to lyrical? How do we express the reason we took the photo? How do we help the viewer feel what we felt and thought when we decided to press the shutter at that moment?
Our speaker, Ian McVea’s, time with us is designed to discuss concepts we can bring to any of the dozens of the photo disciplines (landscape, portraits, abandoned buildings/cars, birds, architectural, bugs on flowers, etc.) that can elevate our photos and communicate our vision. To write poems with light.
Ian McVea is a Irish-born, Texas-based photojournalist and photography educator. Growing up in Ireland, India, South Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Ethiopia, and Algeria, he developed a love for photographing the world around him. He joined the Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper in 1989 as a staff photographer, later becoming a photo editor and then Director of Photography.
During that time, he photographed six Cowboys head coaches, five U.S. presidents, four Van Cliburn International Piano Competitions, three governors of Texas, two supermodels, one queen of England, and countless Friday night football games, ribbon-cuttings, and restaurant reviews. He covered the Oklahoma City bombing, the Shuttle Columbia disaster, and hurricanes Katrina and Rita for international wire services.
While on staff at the Star-Telegram, Ian taught photojournalism classes as an adjunct professor at TCU’s Schieffer School of Journalism, and, on leaving the paper in 2012, he began a full-time career teaching Commercial Photography in the Arlington ISD.
His images have been part of recent exhibits at a number of Texas galleries and art museums, and have received honors from the Dallas Press Club, National Headliners, Houston Press Club, The Texas APME, and the Texas Photographic Society.
He is an accredited member of the Royal Photographic Society, the NPPA, ASMP, and the Association of Texas Photography Instructors.
Ian has two married daughters who share his passion for analogue photography.
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