PHOTOGRAPHY SEMINAR AT HAWK POINTE, May 8, 2023

 Founder of the

Annual Highlands Juried Art Exhibit.

Widely  published and collected, Dwight Hiscano has been shooting professionally  for nearly forty years. His photographs have appeared in The New York  Times, Outdoor Photographer, Nature’s Best, Black and White Magazine,  Nature Conservancy Magazine, and Photographic Magazine. A recipient of  Black and White Magazine’s Single Image Spotlight Award, Dwight was also  a finalist in the 2018, 2020 and 2021 International Color Awards, and  was twice nominated for the Black and White Spider Awards. His “Trees  From Above” series received Honorable Mention in the 2021 Minimalist  Photography Awards, and “Juror’s Top Five” selection and Honorable  Mention in the International Photography Awards. He has sold thousands  of prints through galleries and art dealers and his images have been  featured in numerous group and solo exhibits including the Nature's Best  exhibit at the Smithsonian, the National Geographic sponsored  International Mountain Summit in Italy, the Capitol Rotunda, and an  exhibit at Ohio Wesleyan University's Ross Art Museum,  alongside works by Winslow Homer, Thomas Hart Benton and John Marin.  His Gower Gulch, Black Mountains, photograph was recently published by  National Geographic in Wie Sie die Berge noch nie gesehen haben (As You Have Never Seen The Mountains), a collection of mountain landscapes published in Germany.

Dwight's  prints are held in numerous collections both in the U.S. and abroad,  including those at AT&T, Atlantic Health System, Atlanticare,  Pfizer, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Community Foundation of  New Jersey, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, Johnson & Johnson, Merck  & Co., Merrill Lynch, the Liberty Science Center, Oppenheimer.  AT&T and the Richard M. Ross Art Museum.

A  lifelong conservationist, Dwight has served on the boards of several  conservation organizations in his home state of New Jersey. He has  volunteered hundreds of hours and raised thousands of dollars for  charities and conservation efforts. He founded and curated the Annual Highlands Juried Art Exhibit with the New Jersey Highlands Coalition. Now in its 10th year, the  Exhibit has been hosted by the Smithsonian-affiliated Morris Museum in  Morristown, NJ, the Atrium Gallery, also in Morristown, and Farmstead  Arts in Basking Ridge.

He often leads photography workshops, lectures and gallery talks, and was the keynote speaker at the Garden Club of America’s Annual Horticultural Conference.

http://www.dwighthiscano.com

(All photographs Copyright Dwight Hiscano)

An Award winning professional wildlife photographer, wildlife ecologist, TEDTalks presenter and nature writer, Blaine’s  photographs and words have graced the pages of magazines, newsletters,  exhibits, and books, whose main focus has always been New Jersey’s  incredible biodiversity. As a biologist, naturalist, and lecturer, he  runs a series of presentations on Natural History and Photography that  he presents to schools, colleges, civic groups, environmental committees  and corporations. 

(All photographs Copyright Blaine Rothauser)