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Don Werthmann is a digital photographic-artist and professional faculty member in the School of Visual Arts at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he has taught studio and location lighting, digital printmaking, and portfolio development since 2000.
In 2006, Don taught a two-week study abroad course at The Japan Center for Michigan Universities, in Hikone, and most recently has joined the Panasonic Digital Photo Academy instructor roster, featuring the Lumix L-1 DSLR and DMC-TZ3 cameras.
As the Operations Manager of the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops from 1994 to 1999, Don saw the digital imaging age unfold and accelerate, and he garnered unparalleled experience by working as the primary education coordinator of one-week photography workshops with some of the most influential names in the photographic industry.
During the late 1980's and early 90's, Don worked as a freelance camera, lighting, and production assistant for several nationally recognized, commercial/editorial photographers in several market areas of the USA — Detroit, New York, Houston, Phoenix, & Los Angeles.
Don holds an M.A. (2004) and B.F.A. (1986) degrees in digital and traditional photographic imaging from Wayne State University, in Detroit.
Being a native of industrial-north America has deeply influenced Don's photographic vision. He was introduced to the Diego Rivera al fresco murals in the Detroit Institute of Arts at a very early age, and this experience made an indelible impression about the compelling and intriguing way that visual art can convey ideas to people.
He utilized a camera for the first time in his teen years, and after completing several art history courses and several visits to art museums in college, Don felt compelled to pursue urban-documentary photography as a life-long genre that could best convey his experience of growing up in Detroit.
Documenting mere facts is not always the most interesting approach to rendering subject matter, it is seeking and finding a point of view on the facts that is interesting. Don's objective in approaching subject matter is to depict people in real situations, and to facilitate the communication of ideas occurring in contemporary culture.
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