Harvey Duze Photography & Graphic Design (Bio Page)

To start with, I have almost 40 years of professional and creative photographic and graphic design experience. Growing up in Bayside, Queens, New York, I became interested in photography at an early age, thanks to my father and uncle, who were very talented amateur photographers.

After graduating from high school, I studied first at the FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY in New York City, earning a AAS degree in Fashion Photography, then later at the ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY in Rochester, New York where I earned my BFA in Photographic Illustration.

I’ve worked on staff and/or contract for PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE, LOCKHEED MARTIN, and DuPONT, as well as ran my own photography and graphic design business for 10 years in Wilmington, Delaware. I’m currently working on staff for AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP, in Washington, D.C.

My photographic work includes a wide range of corporate and editorial location and studio assignments. In recent years, urban and rural landscapes, nature and people have been my favorite subjects. While the majority of my work has been done in the northeastern United States, I’ve also traveled to other parts of the U.S., across the border to Canada, and overseas to Ireland and Italy.

I also have experience in the area of graphic design and desktop publishing, having handled many assignments ranging from graphics to illustrate presentations and both print and Web-based publications, logos and corporate identities and the creation of both speaker-support and self-running “kiosk” PowerPoint presentations, and Web-based HTML and Flash slideshows.

My work has been published in the original edition of the TIME-LIFE PHOTOGRAPHY LIBRARY, annual reports of DuPONT and AMERICAN EXPRESS, as well as various other print and on-line publications. I’ve also had my work exhibited in one-man and group shows in New York City, Trenton, NJ, in recent years at the Montpelier Cultural Arts Center in Laurel, Maryland, and currently in Washington, D.C.

In 2008, I started to publish books of my photos on Blurb.com. Currently, ten books have been released, with more currently in production.

You can get information about these books, as well as where my photos are currently being exhibited, by clicking on the “Books/Exhibitions” link below.