DF Connors is an award-winning photographer and video & motion picture director/cameraman, and has studied photography with Barbara Blondeau, Richard Stevens and Howard Bond.

DF Connors received his degree in Communication Arts from the University of Notre Dame and did his graduate work in motion picture production at UCLA. He taught film production, film history, and a graduate documentary seminar as well as a Great Books Seminar before founding DCP Communications Group, a video/photography/multimedia production company serving the corporate communications market. DF Connors has shot across the globe, including most of the USA as well as Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland and Africa.

Before turning to motion picture and videotape directing and shooting, DF Connors was a staff photographer for the Associated Press and a freelance photographer for other editorial clients. As a freelancer, he has been published in the New York Times, Bunt Illustrierte (Germany) and has shot a book published by Doubleday, "A Child Goes to School".

Currently, DF Connors pursues large format fine art photography, shooting with an 8x10 camera and printing silver gelatin, platinum/palladium and archival giclée media in color and black & white.

Awards

DF Connors' Motion Picture and Video awards include the Gold Mercury, Gold Camera Award, Silver INTERCOM Award, two CINE Golden Eagles, Bronze and Silver Medallions in the New York International Film Festival, a Silver in the Chicago International Film & TV Festival and the American Advertising Federation's Gold ADDY Awards. His films have represented the U.S. in foreign competitions.

Still Photography Awards: Best of Show, Montgomery Cultural Center 1997; included in Philips Mill 2001; included in Perkins Center for the Arts 2002; Winner: Best of Show - Phillips' Mill 2002; included in Phillips' Mill 2003; private collections.

WINNER: Patron's Award, 2004 Phillips' Mill Photographic Exhibition

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Currently an award-winning staff photographer for The Star-Ledger in Newark, NJ, Tony Kurdzuk has been photographing his assignments with digital cameras for over five years. He is responsible for training and technical issues for the staff at the paper, and was instrumental in their transition into filmless photography. His interest in both photography and computers has given him the opportunity to become skillful in many of the facets of digital imaging on both the PC and Macintosh platforms.

Over the last 16 years, Tony's work has also included fine art black and white, infrared, large format photography, and Ilfochrome color printing. He is noted for his skill in the black and white darkroom, and is considered by many to be a master printer. His print work for other photographers has hung in numerous galleries and can be seen as part of the permanent collection of large black and white murals in the Ellis Island Museum.

WINNER: Photographer of the Year in the 2003 Pictures of the Year competition  - from the New Jersey Press Photographers Association.

See a QuickTime video of Tony's work here  (1 meg)

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