Bruno Chalifour is a photographer, as well as a photography teacher, critic, and historian trained both in France and the US. He has lived in Rochester (NY) for the past 12 years working as a fine art photographer, teacher (various workshops in the US and France), and critic (writing for publications in the USA, Canada, and France). In 2001 he graduated from SUNY Buffalo with an MFA (photography) and has taught at SUNY Buffalo, the University of Rochester, and Visual Studies Workshop at undergraduate and graduate level. From December 2002 to January 2005 he was the editor of Afterimage, a magazine of visual and cultural criticism published since 1972 by Visual Studies Workshop. He is a co-founder of the New York Artist Guild. His work has been published over the past twenty five years in various newspapers, and magazines, and can be seen in the numerous private and public collections. He has had numerous one-man shows in France and the US. He currently works on a Ph D dissertation on American Landscape Photography and occasionally writes for Afterimage (USA), Choice (USA), Ciel Variable (Canada), Réponses Photo (France), www.photographie.com, www.photophiles.com