Professor Kobré has educated a generation of pros

Professor Ken Kobré heads the photojournalism program at San Francisco State University. His former students, who include winners of the Pulitzer Prize, World Press Awards, and many other prestigious honors, work on staff and as freelancers for publications and media outlets around the world.

Ken's textbook, "Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach," published by Focal Press-Elsevier, has been the widest-selling text on photojournalism in the world since 1980.

He is also a co-author of the 7th and 8th editions of "Photography" (Prentice Hall) the world's leading basic photography textbook. His other books include “How to Photograph Friends and Strangers,” published by Curtin & London.

Ken maintains an active freelance career that has included assignments for Newsweek, Time, the New York Times, as well as for corporate clients such as Hewlett-Packard, Levi Strauss and Apple Computer.

He has worked widely in developing countries including Malaysia, Thailand, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Egypt and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He also has taught numerous workshops on photography including one in the Czech Republic for photojournalists from the former Eastern Bloc.

Ken is a past winner of the respected Robin F. Garland Educator Award from the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) and for four years directed the University of Missouri/NPPA Pictures of the Year Awards.

Professor Kobré invented the Lightscoop because he “HATES looking at UGLY flash photos.”