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George Olson earned his merit badge for photography at the age of 13, but it took the encouragement of the town camera shop owner's son to really awaken his interest. As soon as he saw his first print appear in the developer, he was hooked. After working on his high school and college yearbooks, he moved on to work for the Topeka Capital-Journal and the Kansas City Star. In 1977 he moved to San Francisco and worked as a freelancer for many publications, including National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian and the New York Times. He also served as a freelance picture editor for the San Francisco Examiner, and many of the Day in the Life. He also did picture editing for many other book projects, including Christmas in America, Jews in America, Baseball in America, One Earth, and Planet Vegas. He has served on the faculty of the Missouri Photo Workshop, Photography on the Summit, and the Jackson Hole Workshop . He has also taught Photojournalism as an extension course for the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked at Sunset Magazine since 1995, and currently serves as their Travel Picture Editor.

Faculty

Margaret O'Connor
Dennis Dimick
Melissa Farlow
MaryAnne Golon
Kim Komenich
Bill Luster
Geri Migielicz
George Olson
Randy Olson
Lois Raimondo

Staff

Angel Anderson
Randy Cox
Jim Curley
Seth Jayson
David Rees
Jeff Thompson
Greg Tomlinson
Becca Young

Crew

David Barreda
Shauna Bittle
Meredith Day
Sara Fajardo
Elie Gardner
Channing Johnson
Benjamin Mihlfeld
Chris Oberholtz
Vanja Ratković
Megan Retka
Beth Schlanker
Kathrin Spirk
Adam Williams

 

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