STEVE DZERIGIAN began using a camera in his youth, exploring the nearby landscape. Photography became a means for interacting with the world, for discovery and communication; pursuing and teaching the medium became his life's work. He instructed field workshops for the University of California, Santa Cruz Extension from 1977 through 2007. From 1984 to 1990, he was an assistant instructor and one-time director for The Ansel Adams Gallery Photography Workshop in Yosemite. In 2002, he served as a co-coordinator for the "Ansel Adams Centennial Symposium in Yosemite: Edges and Intersections, The Evolution of Change." Devoted to facilitating art and education in Central California for the last forty years, Dzerigian has served as a curator, juror, and consultant for many exhibitions, competitions, and media events, in addition to teaching photography full-time at Fresno City College. In 1980, he gathered charter members to create the local Spectrum Art Gallery, one of the longest running, nonprofit cooperative galleries in the United States. In numerous one-person and group exhibitions, as well as publications, Steve Dzerigian's works have been seen throughout the country.