about
Tom Fischer is Chief Academic Officer at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he has also served as professor of photography since 1990. Tom received his MFA in photography at Stanford University in 1987. He is best known for his large-format black and white images of America's wetlands. His work is held in numerous public and private collections and has been shown in more than 60 exhibitions in galleries and museums in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He has received the James Borelli Fellowship and the G.B. Cantor Fellowship from Stanford University. In 1996 he received the Regional Designation Award in the Arts from the United States Cultural Olympiad. He is listed in Who's Who in American Art and has been nominated for the U.S. Professor of the Year three times. He is currently Chair of the Board of Directors of the Society for Photographic Education. Tom has recently published Paradise/Paradox, a major body of his photographic work, which can be seen at tomfischerphoto.com.
