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About John

John Sexton was born in 1953 and has lived on the Monterey Peninsula in California for more than forty years. Respected as a photographer, master printmaker, author, and workshop instructor, he is best known for his luminous, quiet, black and white photographs of the natural environment. In 2018 John was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, Missouri. After more than fifty years John still finds magic in exposing and processing film, and making silver gelatin prints, by hand, in his traditional darkroom at his home and studio in Carmel Valley, California. John shares that home and studio with his wife and photographer, Anne Larsen, and their black and white cat, Boots.

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John Sexton has been a professional photographer for over 50 years and worked as both Technical and Photographic Assistant, and Technical Consultant, to Ansel Adams from 1979 to 1984. He was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum in 2018.

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Winter Trees, Fog, Yosemite Valley, CA 1990 Shop John Sexton
 

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Winter Trees, Fog, Yosemite Valley, CA 1990

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Sea of Aspen, Dolores RIver Canyon, Colorado 1987 Shop John Sexton
 
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Oaks in Fog, Sunrise, Carmel Valley, CA 1995.
 
Oaks in Fog, Sunrise, Carmel Valley, CA 1995.
Oaks in Fog, Sunrise, Carmel Valley, CA 1995.

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Glowing Aspens, Castle Creek Valley, Colorado 1991 Shop John Sexton
 
Glowing Aspens, Castle Creek Valley, Colorado 1991 Shop John Sexton
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Forest in Spring, Happy Isles, Yosemite Valley, CA 1989 Shop John Sexton
 
Forest in Spring, Happy Isles, Yosemite Valley, CA 1989 Shop John Sexton
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Education
  • Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, departmental honors, Art – Photography, Chapman University, Orange, California, 1976
  • Associate of Arts, cum laude, Photography, Cypress College, Cypress, California, 1974
Selected Exhibitions
  • John Sexton: A Photographer's Journey, traveling retrospective, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
  • John Sexton: Twenty Years of Photographs, retrospective, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
  • Quiet Light, traveling exhibition organized by the United States Information Agency, toured fifteen European countries, 1994 to 1996 
  • Evolutions: The Photographs of John Sexton, International Center of Photography, New York; 
  • Rencontres Internationales de la Photographic, Arles, France 
  • Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
  • Clarence Kennedy Gallery, Polaroid, Cambridge, MA 
  • The Weston Gallery, Carmel, CA
  • Photo Gallery International, Tokyo 
  • Focus Gallery, San Francisco, CA 
  • The Afterimage Gallery, Dallas, TX 
  • Photokina, Cologne, Germany
  • The Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite, CA 
  • Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA 
  • The Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
Awards
  • Inducted into International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, 2018
  • Telly Award –Bronze Videography – Epson video John Sexton: Print Your Legacy, 2019
  • Inaugural George Eastman Medal, Beijing, China, 2014
  • American Society of Photographers, International Award, 2014
  • Camera Craftsmen of America, Honorary Life Member, 2014
  • SAPPI Awards - Silver - Recollections: Three Decades of Photographs
  • North American Nature Photography Association, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2005
  • Kodak Professional Icon, 2004
  • Kodak Professional Legends Online, 2000
  • Cypress College, Thirtieth Anniversary Outstanding Alumnus, 1997
  • Photographic Book of the Year Awards, First Place Monograph: Listen to the Trees, 1994
  • Brooks Institute of Photography, Honorary Master of Science degree, 1990
  • Imogen Cunningham Award, 1981
Selected Collections And Publications:

John's photographs are included in permanent collections, exhibitions, and publications throughout the world. 

His work has been published in four award winning monographs:

  • Quiet Light; published by Ventana Editions
  • Listen to the Trees; published by Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Company
  • Places of Power: The Aesthetics of Technology; published by Ventana Editions
  • Recollections: Thirty Years of Photographs; published by Ventana Editions

His work has been featured on the CBS Sunday Morning show, and on the MacNeil Lehrer News Hour. Bank of America, General Motors, Eastman Kodak Company, and Apple, Inc. have used his photographs in national advertising campaigns. Sexton's photographs have been featured in numerous periodicals including: 

  • Time
  • Life
  • American Photo
  • Backpacker
  • Photo Techniques
  • Darkroom Photography
  • LensWork
  • View Camera
  • Black and White
  • Zoom
  • Outdoor Photographer
  • Outside
  • The Washington Post 
  • Popular Photography
Teaching

John has been teaching for more than 45 years as Director of the John Sexton Photography Workshops program, at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, The Ansel Adams Gallery, Maine Photographic Workshops, The Friends of Photography, and The Palm Beach Workshops.

John's informed and entertaining lectures for photographic and professional organizations, colleges, universities, and museums discuss the aesthetic and technical aspects of expressive photography. He has presented lectures for, among others, Adobe, Apple, Kodak, George Eastman House, Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, Boston University, Oregon State University, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Bowers Museum, Monterey Museum of Art, Museum of Photographic Arts, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Portland Art Museum, and the Seattle Art Museum.

Associated Contributions And Experience

John is a consultant to Eastman Kodak Company and other photographic manufacturers.  While working with Ansel Adams, he assisted Adams in the darkroom and in the field, and conducted all the technical testing on the revised editions of Ansel’s books The Negative and The Print. Following Mr. Adams’ death, John served as Photographic Special Projects Consultant to The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. Along with serving as an instructor at a number of the Ansel Adams Yosemite Workshops, Sexton was the director of that program in the early 1980’s. From 1985 to 1993 he was a member of the Board of Trustees of The Friends of Photography.

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Winter Trees, Fog, Yosemite Valley, CA 1990 Shop John Sexton
 

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Winter Trees, Fog, Yosemite Valley, CA 1990

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Sea of Aspen, Dolores RIver Canyon, Colorado 1987 Shop John Sexton
 
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Sea of Aspen, Dolores RIver Canyon, Colorado 1987

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Oaks in Fog, Sunrise, Carmel Valley, CA 1995.
 
Oaks in Fog, Sunrise, Carmel Valley, CA 1995.
Oaks in Fog, Sunrise, Carmel Valley, CA 1995.

John Sexton

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Oaks in Fog, Sunrise, Carmel Valley, CA 1995

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Glowing Aspens, Castle Creek Valley, Colorado 1991 Shop John Sexton
 
Glowing Aspens, Castle Creek Valley, Colorado 1991 Shop John Sexton
Glowing Aspens, CastleCreek Valley, Colorado 1991 Shop John Sexton

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Glowing Aspens, Castle Creek Valley, Colorado 1991

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Forest in Spring, Happy Isles, Yosemite Valley, CA 1989 Shop John Sexton
 
Forest in Spring, Happy Isles, Yosemite Valley, CA 1989 Shop John Sexton
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Round Tower, Interior, Copenhagen, Denmark 1994.
 
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