Jay Dickman has been shooting pictures professionally for more than 35 years. Dickman was the winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his coverage of the war in El Salvador, as well as the World Press Golden Eye and The Sigma Delta Chi Gold Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism, in addition to many regional and national photography awards. A National Geographic Photographer (with more than 25 assignments), Jay’s also shot for TIME, Life, Fortune and Forbes, and his work appears in leading publications around the world. Jay has also been a Contributing Editor to American Way Magazine (the in-flight magazine for American Airlines) and POLO Magazine. Dickman’s work also appeared in almost all of the “Day in a Life of...” series including: America, China, the Soviet Union, Spain, Italy, Ireland and California, as well as the Interactive books, “Passage to Vietnam” and “Twenty Four Hours in Cyberspace.”
Having taught many national and international photo workshops, including Maine Photographic Workshops and Santa Fe Workshops, Jay and his wife Becky (formerly a photographer) started their own workshop series. FirstLight Workshops has hosted workshops in France, Spain, Scotland, Chesapeake Bay, Dubois (Wyoming) as well as the Aeolian Islands of Italy.
Jay also co-authored “Perfect Digital Photography,” published by McGraw Hill.
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