Shane Powers, Instructor Profile

Shane Powers has been teaching photography to youth and adults for most of the past decade.  Shane hails from the Wild West town of Boise, Idaho and is one class away from his MFA in Photography at Academy of Art University in San Francisco.  In 2003, he founded a comprehensive, year-long photojournalism program with 80 high school students in six Boise-area high schools called focus208, which was featured in PDN Magazine.  He is now a veteran volunteer member of the Mission District’s artist collective Red Poppy Art House. He also volunteers as a youth photography mentor for First Exposures, a program conducted by SF Camerawork.  Shane’s first love is working with old medium and large format cameras and historical processes, but he’s no slacker when it comes to the newfangled digital media.