ABOUT GEOPIX

GEOPIX is the Web site of George Wedding, an award-winning freelance photographer based in Elk Grove, CA, near Sacramento. He has over 25 years of publishing experience and has worked as a picture editor, art director and director of photography. In 2001, he returned to a photographic career after editing and consulting for fifteen years.

Acknowledged electronic imaging expertise
Wedding has even written extensively on digital imaging technology for various photographic and publishing industry trade publications and Web sites (right) such as creativepro.com, PEI (Photo Electronic Imaging) and Digital Camera magazines, and the Photoflex Web Photo School. See the links to some of his writings on imaging technology, above. Also, he authored An Introduction to Digital Photo Imaging, a 32-page booklet published by Agfa in 1994, and has consulted on calibration, color management, and picture editing for a diverse range of firms, including Apple Computer, Eastman Kodak, Nikon USA, Hughes Electronics, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the U.S. 8th Army in Korea. Other technology consulting clients have included The San Jose Mercury-News, Orange County Register, Gannett Newspapers and Old World Christmas in Spokane, Washington.
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Experience: a diverse range of clients
George Wedding is a photographer who thinks like an editor and his experience designing and editing books and newspapers helps him understand your publishing needs. He edited and designed the picture book Yosemite: A landscape of life, below, by Pultizer Prize winning photographer Jay Mather and writer Dale Maharidge for The Yosemite Association. He also has been a picture editor for several books produced by Collins Publishers, Inc. and Epicenter Communications.
 
  BOOK PROJECTS/ DESIGN
• Yosemite: A landscape of Life, 1990

BOOK PROJECTS/ PICTURE EDITING
• The Mission: Inside the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-Day Saints, 1995
• A Day in the Life of Thailand, 1995
• Sun Computer Project, 1994
• Mission Earth, 1990
• A Day in the Life of China, 1989
• Christmas in America, 1988
• A Day in the Life of California, 1988
• Jews in America, 1988

BOOK PROJECTS/ WRITING
• An Introduction to Digital Photo Imaging, 1991

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RECOGNITION: Photography, design awards
1990 NOMINATION, PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE DECADE

American Photographer Magazine
1990 PICTURE EDITOR OF THE YEAR/ Newspaper Design & Picture Editing
National Press Photographers Association and University of Missouri
The Sacramento Bee (Also awarded in 1986, 1989)

1988 SILVER AWARD/ Magazine Design
Society of Newspaper Design
“The Traveling Pope” • The Sacramento Bee
1980 NEWSPAPER PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR/ Portfolio
National Press Photographers Association and University of Missouri
San Jose Mercury-News
1980 NATIONAL HEADLINER AWARD/ News Picture Story
“Mount St. Helens Erupts” • San Jose Mercury-News
1980 WORLD PRESS PHOTO/ 1st Place, Black & White Picture Story
News Picture Story • “Mount St. Helens Erupts” • San Jose Mercury-News
1980 NOMINATION, PULITZER PRIZE/ News Photography
News Picture Story • “Mount St. Helens Erupts” • San Jose Mercury-News

1979 SOUTHERN PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR/ Portfolio
Southern Short Course • San Jose Mercury-News
1979 NOMINATION, PULITZER PRIZE/ Feature Photography
“Marguerita: A child, a family, a journey into death” • Palm Beach Post
1978 WORLD UNDERSTANDING AWARD, 36th POY/ Photographic essay
National Press Photographers Association, University of Missouri, Nikon
“Marguerita: A child, a family, a journey into death” • Palm Beach Post

CONTACT
George Wedding/ GEOPIX
916.549.8272 or E-mail
georgewedding@geopix.com
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George Wedding
has worked as a photographer, director of photography, picture editor and art director for newspapers, book and magazines