As a designer, image maker, and photographer, I believe my job is to move your eye to look where I want you to look and to see what I want you to see. My job is not to tell you what to think. I'll leave that challenge up to you.
As a designer, image maker, and photographer, I believe my job is to move your eye to look where I want you to look and to see what I want you to see. My job is not to tell you what to think. I'll leave that challenge up to you.
David B. Jenkins photo
ABOUT
As an award-winning, multi-faceted, multi-talented, executive level professional, artist, and educator. I am highly experienced and skilled in the art and science of marketing, advertising, branding, graphic design, graphic production, and photography.
My 30+ year career path includes the following positions • Assistant Professor of Graphic Arts Technology • Adjunct Instructor of Photography and Graphic Design • Director of Marketing • Studio Owner • Creative Director • Website Designer • Web Content Manager • Web SEO Manager • Director of Creative Services • Magazine Design Director • Production Manager • Art Director • Graphic Designer • Studio Photographer • Photojournalist
AWARDS
Photography • National Press Photographers Association: Award of Excellence • Photograph published in Print magazine’s Regional Annual
Graphic Design • Atlanta Ad Club: 2 Gold Addy Awards and 1 Award of Excellence • Baptist Public Relations Association: 14 First Place awards and 4 Second Place awards • Printers Association of Georgia: 9 Awards of Excellence
EXHIBITIONS
2016 • LA Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA • Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY • Exhale Unlimited, Los Angeles, CA • Exit Gallery, Azusa, CA • Association for Visual Arts. Chattanooga, TN
2015 • Exhale Unlimited, Los Angeles, CA • Exit Gallery, Azusa, CA • Association for Visual Arts. Chattanooga, TN
2014 • Exhale Unlimited, Los Angeles, CA • Association for Visual Arts. Chattanooga, TN
2013 • Association for Visual Arts. Chattanooga, TN • Reflections Gallery, Chattanooga, TN • INCubator, Chattanooga, TN
2012 • Solo show - Chattanooga Theatre Centre • Association for Visual Arts. Chattanooga, TN • Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, GA
2011 • Solo show - Tennessee Temple University, Chattanooga • In-Town Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
2010 • In-Town Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Michael's artwork is currenly on exhibition at The INCubator in Chattanooga, TN and is open to representation at other galleries.
PARTIAL CLIENT LIST
A partial list of clients I have completed projects for include • Aaron Rents & Sales • American Express • AMG Publishers • Arby's • Atlanta Falcons • Atlanta Vineyard • BellSouth • CBL Properties & Associates • Coca-Cola • Colonial Pipeline • Delta Air Lines • Eastman Kodak • EMJ Corp. • Fitzgerald Advertising • General Electric • Georgia Right to Life • Georgia Shakespeare Festival • Georgia Tech • Georgia Trend magazine • Hosanna / Integrity Music • Int'l Community School of Bangkok (Thailand) • Marriott Hotels • Moody Monthly magazine • NASA/Space Camp • NCR • Nextel • Phil Driscoll / Mighty Horn Music • Porsche North America • Rhein Int'l Academy (Germany) • Savin • The Cedars School (Switzerland) • The Puckett Group • Word Music
PARTIAL LIST OF COLLEGE COURSES TAUGHT
Graphic Design • Design Principles (elements & fundamentals of 2D design) • Design Concepts (typography and branding) • Intro to Adobe InDesign • Intro to Adobe Illustrator • Intro to Adobe Photoshop • Advanced Adobe Applications • Publication Design • Advertising Design I & II • Graphic Design I & II • Communication Design II • Portfolio
Photography • Intro to Digital Photography • Contemporary Photo Documentary • Advanced Digital Photography - Portraiture
TYPES OF DESIGN PROJECTS COMPLETED
Advertising • ad creation • ad design • conceptualization • online advertising • newspaper advertising • magazine advertising • radio advertising • TV advertising
Advertising Design • banner ads • billboards • newspaper ads • magazine ads
Branding / Identity • business card design • corporate identity packages • envelope design • pocket folders • logo design • letterhead design • stationery design • t-shirt design • vehicle graphics
Copywriting • brochures • editing • email campaigns • magazine articles • multimedia presentations • press releases • proofreading • RFPs • story pitches • web content • white papers
Digital Design • electronic media • email ad campaigns • email newsletters • online newsletters • PowerPoint presentations • website design
Editorial / Publication Design • annual reports • catalog layout and design • magazine layout and design • newsletters
Exhibition Design • trade show booths • trade show graphics
Package Design • cd packaging • dvd packaging • video packaging
Photo Retouching • critical color matching • image editing • image restoration
Photography and Videography • advertising • commercial • location/onsite • photojournalism • studio • videographer/ editor / producer
Print Design • book covers • books • booklets • brochures • desktop publishing • direct mail packages • flyers • point-of-purchase • posters • sales collateral • sales presentations • sales sheets • signage, interior and exterior
Promotions • awards • employee appreciation • motivational posters • promotional items • trade show giveaways
Search Engine Optimization • keyword optimization • meta tag creation • site linkage • search optimization
MINI BIO
Proud to be a Son of the Republic of Texas, Michael lived in Germany for a couple of years while his father was stationed there (Sgt. Largent, of course) and then left his home state for the mountains of Tennessee in 1972.
While earning his BA in Photographic Design from TN Temple University in Chattanooga, he was exposed to alternative photography processes such as pinhole and photograms, and non-silver printing processes such as cyanotype and gum bichromate, and to the photographers who shaped his artistic vision: Steiglitz, Steichen, Day, and others.
Working for studios, a film production house, a couple of daily newspapers, and TV station helped Michael fully develop his photography skills. He has also freelanced magazine and agency assignments from Maine to Washington and on location around the globe.
Michael set his camera down for a 25 year career in graphics in Atlanta. He has held the titles of: graphic designer, art director, magazine design director, studio owner, creative director, and director of marketing.
After moving back to Chattanooga, TN in 2006, Michael picked up the camera again and has rediscovered the joy of photography for photography's sake. Beginning in 2006 Michael taught graphic design courses at Chattanooga State Community College for 3.5 years. Beginning in 2013 he began teaching graphics and photography courses at Covenant College. He has also been a guest lecturer of photography at Lee University.
Formerly employed as the Creative Director for InView Graphics, a retail marketing and large format digital printing company, he had access to an amazing array of tools which allow him to experiment with printing on a variety of artist papers, canvases, and rigid substrates such as artist panels, rusty metals, brushed aluminum, wood, etc.
Michael is currently an Assistant Professor of Graphic Arts Technology within the Digital Media Design and Production Department at Chattanooga State Community College.
He is also currently pursuing a masters degree at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, CA and expects to graduate July 2017 with a MFA in Visual Arts.
DIGITAL IMAGERY
Michael is challenging the notion that the photograph needs to be representational or mimetic or even two-dimensional. His current area of experimentation is with digital image manipulation and photo sculptural techniques. Starting with an original photograph or appropriated image, he may manipulate the image until it is unrecognizable as a photo and takes on a new life of its own, creating forms, patterns and shapes as he will. Having some OCD tendencies, Michael likes to create chaos then organize it.
BEHIND THE LENS
"Some artists paint with oils, but I prefer to paint with pixels."
Influenced by the pictorialists and the look and feel of images created by cheap, low-tech Holga cameras, Michael resonates with not knowing every detail of an image. He finds joy in mystery.
What is most significant about his work is not what was originally in front of the camera, but rather the final image – artistically manipulated to achieve his ultimate vision. An unapologetic pictorialist, he shoots what he sees and then makes it what it becomes.
If his photos have a mission, it is to make the unseen the seen. It is to show things in a different perspective, presented in a more interesting way. Michael feels that he has failed as an "artist" if someone can look at one of his images and say, “I could have done that.”
Shooting digital Nikons, he likes to rework the imagery on his iMac by bossing the pixels around in Photoshop. He adds layers and/or textures to the original and uses a variety of actions.