A Pulitzer-Prize winner and National Geographic Photographer, Jay’s work has appeared in 15 of the high profile A Day in the Life of… series. His work also has won several awards in the World Press International Competition, including the ‘Golden Eye’ award, and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Distinguished Service in Journalism

Jay Dickman has worked in the photojournalism field for over 30 years, covering events as diverse as the war in El Salvador to the Olympics, national political conventions to 6 Super Bowls, the 40th Anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima to photographing Shirley Maclaine. He’s spent three months living in a stone-age village in Papua New Guinea, spent a week under the Arctic ice in a nuclear attack sub (both these for National Geographic), and sank on a boat on the Amazon. He’s flown around the world for a corporate shoot for EDS Corporation. The range of what Jay’s covered is quite extreme, and he feels incredibly fortunate to work in a business he loves.

Jay’s client list ranges from EDS to Nike, Marlboro to the NFL. Publications include: National Geographic, LIFE, Conde Nast Traveler, Travel & Leisure, Time, Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, Sports Illustrated, GEO, Stern, American Way. Corporate clients include EDS Corporation, Dell Computers, Dresser Industries, Hewlett Packard, Quaker, CH2M Hill, The Polk Company and Sun MicroSystems.

In addition, Maine Photographic Workshops, Workshop at the Summit, American Photo Mentor Series Treks, National Geographic PhotoCamps, are a few of the photographic workshops at which Jay has worked as a faculty member. Jay and his wife Becky founded FirstLight Workshops in 2003, the inaugural workshop being held in Auvillar, France. Since then, FirstLight has conducted two workshops per year: including the Western Highlands of Scotland, Barcelona, Spain, Chesapeake Bay and Dubois, Wyoming. In addition to revisiting these locations, future workshops are being planned for Colorado, Ireland and Italy.

More than twenty five assignments for the National Geographic Society, his work from the magazine has been featured in Communication Arts magazine, Graphis and other high-profile showpieces. He was also featured in a national TV ad campaign for American Express. An Olympus Visionary, HP Pro Photographer and a Lexar Elite Photographer, Jay is utilizing the latest technology from those companies.

In 2006, Jay co-authored Perfect Digital Photography with FirstLight instructor Jay Kinghorn, published by McGraw Hill. This book and guide to the aesthetics of photography and workflow, has been highly reviewed in major publications. Version 2 of the book was released in June of this year.