About Steve Anchell

Steve Anchell has taught digital and analog photography at Oregon State University. He has also held residencies at Western Oregon University. Since 1979, he has conducted film and digital media workshops, including DSLR video, for the International Center for Photography in NYC; Santa Fe Photographic Workshops; Toscana Photography Workshops (Italy); Revela’T (Spain); the Universities of California at Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Irvine; University of Cincinnati; and University of Denver.

Steve began his professional photographic career with a portrait and wedding studio in San Luis Obispo, Calif., followed by a commercial studio in Hollywood, Calif., which included clients such as Max Factor, Vivian Woodard, and Merle Norman cosmetics; IBM; Teledyne; Ohrbachs Department Store; Wham-O Toys; Jordache Belts; and Catalina Swimwear.

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Steve was the senior editor of Photovision: Art and Technique and executive editor of Focus Fine Art Photography magazines. He has written columns, feature articles, and interviews for the print editions of Rangefinder, Photo Technique, Shutterbug, View Camera, Camera Arts, PIC, and PhotoPro magazines. He has been a contributing editor to Outdoor Photographer, Camera & Darkroom, and PhotoWork magazines. He has written for online magazines, including Professional Photographer, the official magazine of Professional Photographers of America; Phototrio; Photodoto; and SLRLounge.

His most recent digital textbook, Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Cameras: Getting the Most from Your Camera, was released in 2019. He is also the author of the popular photography textbook Digital Photo Assignments.

His books on darkroom, The Darkroom Cookbook, The Variable Contrast Printing Manual, and The Film Developing Cookbook, are considered the three most important books on darkroom practice.

He has participated in more than sixty photography exhibitions, thirty of which were solo exhibits.

Steve is a member of the Freestyle Board of Photographic Advisors, Northwest Editors Guild, and a board member of Photography at Oregon.