GALLERY ARTIST: Jo Babcock

Residence:San Francisco Education:BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 1976; MFA San Francisco Art Institute, 1979 Professional Affiliation: Free Lance Photographer Selected Awards: NEA Individual Artist Fellowship, 1990

Jo Babcock is best known for his use of alternative cameras. He has modified a Volkswagon bus to include both a pinhole camera and a simple lens camera using a parascope. He works in color utilizing a variety of paths to the finished print. Some are made from pinhole negatives while others are one-of-a-kind direct photographs on paper, and other prints are made using a paper negative.