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Leslie McCall

Leslie has over 30 years of creative and diverse experience in commercial, conceptual, and digital photographic instruction, as well as, professional photography studio ownership and management. She has a BFA in Photography from Art Center College of Design and an MFA in Photography from the College of Art & Design at Lesley University. Leslie has operated her own commercial studio specializing in food, product, and architecture for advertising.

Clients Include: Nestle Corporation, Ralphs Grocery Stores, Albertson’s Grocery Stores, Gourmet Cuisine Foods, Allen Wertz Candy, Rite Aid, Ford Motor Company, Honda Motor Company, Ultra Wheel Corporation, Sinclaire-Ameritone Paint Corporation, Sherwin Williams Paint Company, The Walt Disney Corporation, Admiral Cruises, 1928 Jewelry Company and Individual Architects.

Leslie also managed A&I Digital Imaging in Hollywood where she became immersed in digital imaging workflow, color management, and digital printing. Her professional experience ranges from large, medium, and small format analog, to large, medium, and small digital capture, as well as all aspects of digital image workflow.

"My teaching philosophy is based upon a profound commitment to the learning process and facilitating students’ progress toward their personal and professional goals. I feel that a strong technical foundation must be balanced with conceptual exploration. I want my students to be challenged and have fun while creating compelling images.”

Jim Davis

Email:   jdavis206@occ.cccd.edu

Blade Gillissen

Blade has taught classes in basic photography, view camera, lighting, product, advanced darkroom techniques, the zone system, and alternative processes since 1998. He has a special interest in historical processes and has worked extensively with gum bichromate printing, platinum printing, and pinhole photography. He also works as a consultant, technical writer, and editor, most notably as a technical consultant for Photography, the textbook by Barbara London and John Upton, he also sits on several advisory boards. Blade is an avid collector of photographic prints and rare photographic books. Before becoming an educator, he owned and operated a commercial photography business that specialized in product, lifestyle, and portrait photography.

 Agatha Ibranossian

Agatha Ibranossian began her teaching career in the spring of 2000, at Golden West Community College. She had the privilege of adding Los Angeles City College, and Glendale Community College to her teaching experience prior to joining the µÚÒ»¸£Àûµ¼º½ faculty full time in 2006. She earned her BFA degree in Photography from Art Center College of Design in 1999 and shortly thereafter; established a commercial photography business. She has photographed portraits, food, and fashion accessories for over ten years. In 2010 Agatha earned her MA degree in Educational Leadership and is currently teaching courses in professional photography, fashion and portraiture. Agatha is currently a PhD candidate at CSU and is looking forward to continuing her teaching and learning experience.

 Jonathan Fletcher

Jonathan Fletcher has been involved in photography for more than 25 years. He holds an MFA from the Art Institute of Boston and a BA from UC Santa Barbara. He has worked in both commercial and fine arts photography. His personal work, which is held in collections throughout the country, explores aspects of time and perspective using self-built pinhole cameras. In 2006 he served as technical advisor to The Great Picture project, a massive effort to turn an F-18 jet hanger at El Toro Marine Corps base into the worlds largest pinhole camera. The resulting 31ft x 111ft image is listed with the Guinness Book as the world's largest single photograph. He also has a passion for all of the antiquated "alternative" processes used in the late 19th and early 20th century. Jonathan has taught photography for the past 10 years at The School of Photography at µÚÒ»¸£Àûµ¼º½.

Damian Tsutsumida

Chauncey Bayes

A native of the Newport Beach/Costa Mesa area, Chauncey has been a commercial photographer and designer for over 30 years. His clients included such companies as IBM, TimeLife Books, Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric, City of New York and Volt International.

His specialties are in corporate and institutional publications and advertising. This includes conceptual design, photographic imaging, production and printing. His experiences in corporate advertising have given him a broad base from which to draw from and he brings that working knowledge to the classroom. He has extensive experience in all photographic formats and mediums including high-end digital imaging and imaging software."​

Will Hare

Chelsea Mosher

Hiroshi Clark

Hiroshi Clark began teaching in 2016. Since then, he has taught at various institutions in Southern California. In 2004 he began making photos and in 2007 started his undergraduate education at Art Center College of Design. Following his graduation in 2010 he worked on various photo projects including a series about blue collar workers and starting a zine publishing collective with his peers. He has worked as a fine art printer at A&I and as the advanced photo technician at USC.

Hiroshi’s work has been exhibited in various galleries in Los Angeles and he is received his MFA in Art from the University Of California, Irvine in 2022

Torii Ott

Torii joined the Photo Department 1996.