{"id":794,"date":"2019-08-26T10:04:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T17:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/?page_id=794"},"modified":"2025-04-07T15:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T22:11:13","slug":"faculty-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/faculty-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Full time Faculty<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:acaterina@palomar.edu\">Amy Caterina<\/a>,<\/strong> Associate Professor of Photography<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-239 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2015\/11\/amy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2015\/11\/amy.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2015\/11\/amy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2015\/11\/amy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2015\/11\/amy-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Amy Caterina is an artist living in Southern California who spends her days fawning over her prize winning wiener dog Walter, growing her Mohawk, and teaching the Youth of America.\u00a0 If you ever need a photograph of an out of focus desert suburbia or a giant cupcake bunker (free instructions on how to survive the apocalypse!) she\u2019s your gal.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Amy\u00a0received her BFA in Photography from Buffalo State College, and her MFA in Photography from CSU Fullerton. She is an Adobe Certified Teacher and Education Leader. \u00a0She teaches Digital Photography and Digital Darkroom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:sklinger@palomar.edu\"><strong>Scott Klinger<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Photography<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2019\/09\/idywild-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Klinger\" width=\"194\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2019\/09\/idywild-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2019\/09\/idywild-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2019\/09\/idywild-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2019\/09\/idywild-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2019\/09\/idywild-264x264.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2019\/09\/idywild-528x528.jpg 528w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2019\/09\/idywild-1500x1500.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2019\/09\/idywild.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/>Scott Klinger is a photographer and filmmaker that has been exhibiting his work at galleries and film festivals for over 15 years. His work is in the collection of Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Japan and his most recent film The Lover Who Doesn\u2019t Forget was screened at the 66th Festival de Cannes. Commercially, Scott has done work for clients such as Stuart Weitzman, Diane von Furstenberg, Theory, Converse, Hard Rock Cafe and numerous publications in Italy and the US.\u00a0 He holds a MFA from UC Irvine and an a BA from UCLA. He has been a photographer for most of his life and loves sharing his passion for the medium with students of all ages and skill levels.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Part Time Faculty<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-802\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2019\/08\/Melinda--689x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Melinda Finn\" width=\"155\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2019\/08\/Melinda--689x1024.jpg 689w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2019\/08\/Melinda--768x1141.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2019\/08\/Melinda--264x392.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2019\/08\/Melinda--528x784.jpg 528w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2019\/08\/Melinda--1010x1500.jpg 1010w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Melinda Finn\u2019s<\/strong> work as a professional photographer began when she was an undergraduate at UC Santa Barbara, taking photographs for the student newspaper. She has been taking photographs professionally in one way or another ever since, working in photojournalism, portraiture, architectural and other areas of commercial photography. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She served as Palomar College&#8217;s official photographer for more than 20 years and during that time earned an MFA in photography from Academy of Art University, San Francisco. S<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">he specializes in environmental portraiture. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She loves teaching and especially enjoys watching each student find his or her own unique way of communicating through photography.<br \/>\nContact:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mfinn@palomar.edu\">mfinn@palomar.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pat Chavez,<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:pchavez@palomar.edu\">pchavez@palomar.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-196 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/2015\/11\/puppy_pic-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"puppy_pic\" width=\"168\" height=\"162\" \/><strong style=\"font-size: inherit;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif\">Donna Cosentino<\/strong><br \/>\nDonna has retired and founded <a class=\"hdr-logo header-color7 header-font7\" title=\"The Photographer's Eye: A Creative Collective\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thephotographerseyecollective.com\/\">THE PHOTOGRAPHER&#8217;S EYE: A CREATIVE COLLECTIVE. \u00a0<\/a>Please visit her site to check out her new adventures! Contact: <a href=\"mailto:donna@thephotographerseyecollective.com\">donna@thephotographerseyecollective.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full time Faculty Amy Caterina, Associate Professor of Photography Amy Caterina is an artist living in Southern California who spends her days fawning over her prize winning wiener dog Walter,&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/faculty-2\/\">Continue Reading<span> Faculty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":529,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-794","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6Sp4f-cO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/794\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}