I-Comm Week - Speaker Bio

Kenneth Kobré
Professor
San Francisco State University
Author, Photojournalist, Inventor

Ken Kobré has taught photojournalism for nearly 30 years. He is the author of the leading photojournalism textbook, "Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach," which has been adopted by more than 125 universities. He co-authored the 7th and 8th editions of "Photography," the leading basic photography textbook.

Kobré is the inventor of a device that instantly improves photos taken with the pop-up flash in 35 mm SLR Nikon, Canon , and Pentax cameras. Called "Professor Kobré's Lightscoop," it allows photographers to bounce the light from the flash for better photos.

Currently a professor at San Francisco State University, Kobré has also held director of photojournalism positions at the Univ. of Missouri and the Univ. of Houston. He has also worked as photo editor at the Boston Pheonix, as photographer at the St. Petersburg Times, and as a freelancer for the New York Times, Time, and Newsweek.

Among his many awards, he has been named a Fulbright Senior Specialist and is a Pulitzer Prize nominee for "The Power of Small Change, a 1998 series on microcredit in the San Francisco Examiner.

Ken Kobré

Visit Professor Kobré's blog: blog.lightscoop.com

Check out Professor Kobré's invention: www.lightscoop.com

Some of Professor Kobré's photography