Fine Arts Newsletter
Holiday Edition 2013
FACULTY FEATURE: Taylor Dabney: Upper School Photography Teacher
Taylor joined Collegiate in 2004. His early years focused on teaching the skills necessary for black and white film photography, including developing and printing in the Hershey Center’s darkroom That has grown and shifted as he continues teaching photography as a form of visual literacy in his classes of Digital Photography. He is one of several teachers using the new Digital Media Lab in the Hershey Center which was created after the H2L2 addition. He also stays busy donating his time photographing many school events such as Convocation, plays, Brunch, Pageant, Lessons & Carols, and Graduation. Find his photographs archiving these and other events in the Photo Gallery on the Collegiate Website. Taylor also continues his life as a professional photographer. His photos have been published in books, including Virginia Country: Inside the Private Historic Homes of the Old Dominion by Betsy Wells Edwards. He received the Virginia Commission for the Arts (Photography) Fellowship in 1986. He has photographed archaeological artifacts for digs in Greece and Jordan. He and his wife, Julia E. Pfaff, met on one of those excavations, and continued to spend summers on such projects for many years. His son, William (Class of ‘15), has joined them occasionally on their journeys. Ongoing projects for Taylor include a collection of portraits of teenage mothers across Virginia and North Carolina, and a series of portraits of Civil Rights leaders and educators in conjunction with the Moton Museum in Farmville. He is passionate about photography as a means to preserve history and tell a story. Taylor is passing that passion on to his students ... as is obvious in some of his students’ work shown here where they capture abstract objects, landscapes and portraits.
See more at the Collegiate Photography blog ... http://collegiatephotography.blogspot.com/