Biography In 1976, the funding to pay for my graduate teaching position (writing news for National Public Radio at Penn State University) fell through. "Can you teach photography instead", I was asked. "Sure" I replied. I had never picked up a real camera in my life. And that's how it began. In the late seventies and early eighties, I had many jobs printing for custom and not so custom photo labs in the Boston area. In 1984, my partner and I began Positive Photographics, a photo lab once described by one of our clients as "Newbury Street chic with a Southie attitude". (I always liked that description.) In the early nineties, I made the transition from "analog" to digital printing, although we continued to print conventional color and B&W prints throughout Positive Photo's existence. In 2005, I struck out on my own as Jim Rohan Imaging to work exclusively with digital scanning, retouching and printing. Philosophy I am a digital photographic imagemaker. In the dark, pre-digital days, I made thousands of color and B&W prints in darkrooms using enlargers and processors. I have been making digital prints commercially since the dawn of digital printmaking era way back in the early nineties, if you can remember that far back. The equipment I used in those days was slow, expensive and often pretty lousy. I once paid more than two thousand dollars for 1 megabyte of RAM for my Apple Quadra 800. But I embraced the potential that existed with digital imaging in those early days and stuck with it as it improved exponentially throughout the nineties and into the new millennium. Now digital imaging technology is better and more affordable than ever. Color and Black & White prints made with digital equipment rival or often surpass traditional prints. Digital imaging techniques and workflows have allowed me to work in ways I could never have imagined in the 1970's and 80's. But all the digital equipment in the world still can't replace years of experience. The fundamentals of good printmaking are still the same as in the "analog" era. You still need to know not only how to correct a print, but also when a print looks or "feels" right. What I do is combine nearly thirty years of experience making photographic prints with current, state of the art, digital technology. The equipment has indeed changed...but the final result is still a great image.