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Mineral photography Jeff Scovil, Famous gem and mineral photographer, USA I have been mineral collecting since I was 8 years old and studied geology at Southern Connecticut State University but switched majors to Sociology and anthropology. My graduate work was in Anthropology and archeology at Arizona State University. I have been a member of several mineralogical societies and the President of the Mineralogical Society of Arizona. I specialized in archeological photography and was staff photographer at Salmon Ruin, an archeological site in Bloomfield, New Mexico on a project run by Eastern New Mexico University from 1973 to 1978 then department photographer for the Anthropology Department at Arizona State University from 1978 to 1979. I started photographing minerals in 1975 as a hobby and published a series of articles on the subject in Rocks and Minerals magazine. I illustrated a number of articles on mineral localities in both Rocks and Minerals and the Mineralogical Record. In 1990 I decided to make mineral and gem photography my career and made it a full time business. I am now Associate Photographer for The Mineralogical Record, Rocks & Minerals, Le Regne Mineral (France), Lapis (Germany), Revista Minerals (Spain), Otoczak (Poland) and Mineralogical Almanac (Russia). In 1996 I published the only book ever written on the subject - Photographing Minerals, Fossils and Lapidary Art, Geosciences Press. I travel all over the world photographing for private collectors, dealers and museum curators. My work has been published by major book publishers all over the world. |