Thomas Ridinger

As a babe in arms I was carried off from my ancestral home of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to the less hallowed ground of Rahway, New Jersey, Concord, North Carolina and Levittown, New York. After serving time in a college in the midwest I escaped to New York City where over the years at various publications I was referred to as a pasteup kid, a layout guy, a graphic designer, an art director and finally a photo editor winning a box full of awards along the way. Most notably I was a cofounder of the original Camera Arts magazine, winner of The National Magazine Award and considered by many to have been the best consumer photography magazine ever published in the U.S.