Cheryl Machat Dorskind is an internationally noted mentor, educator, author, professional photographer, handpainter, and photo artist.
Cheryl Machat Dorskind mentors artists and photographers worldwide through her Fine Art Mentoring Programs and addresses the search for voice and cohesion, offering deep and meaningful critiques as well as technical (camera, portfolio, Photoshop, exhibition strategy) and marketing direction.
Cheryl teaches photography online: Exploring Color and Exploring Color 2. Cheryl has been teaching all about color for over ten years and the classes are highly rated. Cheryl will be adding more online classes in the weeks to come, so be sure to sign up for her mailing list. What is unique about Cheryl Machat Dorskind’s online classes is the live-like component. As part of the curriculum, Cheryl records 60 minutes of critiques (over four sessions) and provides hands-on instruction and examples on the platform of the student’s choice (Adobe Photoshop, LightRoom, or Adobe Photoshop Elements). Additionally, email correspondence is a welcome part of the personal class environment.
As a college professor, Cheryl teaches Adobe Photoshop, Adobe LightRoom, digital photography, portfolio development, and freshman seminar (LIU, SUNY, Maine Media Workshops). In the field, Cheryl teaches photography in her popular Photo workshops currently available in the Hamptons and New York City.
In addition to her digital book, Photographing Children Naturally, (available on iTunes and on her website) Cheryl is the author of two best-selling books, The Art of Handpainting Photographs — considered the definitive guide to traditional darkroom photo painting — and The Art of Photographing Children — the ultimate guide to creating cherished photographs of children. Cheryl has also written seventy-five articles for her newspaper column “Picture This” for The Southampton Press and writes for her blog, “Between Loads: Photo Thoughts.”
High-end portrait sessions by Cheryl Machat Dorskind embody the gorgeous natural Hamptons’ light. Whether the setting is at the beach, a park, or a home, the lifestyle posed-but-not-posed images are fluid and rhythmic. Click here to view a sample of Cheryl’s photography portfolios.
Noted internationally for her ethereal misty coastal handpainted photographs and her playful self-portrait photopaintings, her New York Times critically acclaimed fine-art photographs exhibit regularly, are commissioned for book jacket cover art (including Ann Beattie’s Chilly Scenes of Winter, Distortions, and Secrets & Surprises) and are included in many public and private collections.
Cheryl is a contributor to Getty images and her corporate clients include Epic Records, Random House, Coca-Cola, Hamptons magazine, Niche Media, Newsday, The Southampton Press, and The New York Times.
Cheryl can also be seen and heard on the popular podcast This Week in Photography –TWIP
Interview with Frederick Van Johnson
Interview with Bryan Peterson School of Photography
For further information: www.cherylmachatdorskind.com
contact Cheryl: cheryl@cherylmachatdorskind.com or 516-528-4293
