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Please Welcome Pentax Photographer Larry Colen to The Staff of The Phoblographer

Chris Gampat
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04/23/2011
04/23/2011
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Last Updated on 04/23/2011 by Chris Gampat

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Hey everyone, I can’t tell you how stoked I am to be welcoming Larry Colen to the website. He’s a really smart photographer that takes great photos, has lots of fruitful advice, and will be the new Features Editor here at The Phoblographer. Please join me in giving him a warm welcome.

Apart from a few photos with his father’s Spotmatic, Larry started in photography with an Argus C3 and a summer school photo class in the summer between 7th and 8th grades. Shortly thereafter, he got a Minolta SRT-101 and he and his father set up a darkroom at their house. By the time he graduated college, he no longer had access to a darkroom, and for most of the next 25 years his attention was focused on a myriad of other hobbies including sports car racing, dancing, aikido, historical recreation and playing silicon valley roulette at a host of startups.

In November 1997 he bought a Pentax K100Ds, to last him a couple of years until he could afford a camera with the performance he wanted, and suddenly found himself fully immersed in photography again. Living in the Santa Cruz mountains, in California, he just needs to walk into his yard to find things to photograph, but enjoys almost all sorts of photography.

Some of his better work can be found at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157612824732477/

You can email him at LarryColen[at]thephoblographer[dot]com and check out his website at https://www.red4est.com/lrc/

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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