College of Arts and Architecture
School of Visual Arts
PHOTOGRAPHY
KEITH SHAPIRO
Assistant Professor of Integrative Arts & Art
Keith Shapiro graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester,
NY in 1982 with a BFA degree in Photographic Arts and Sciences with an
emphasis in film and television. After graduating from college he then
worked for the Eastman Kodak Co, Motion Picture Services Division as a
photographer and sound-person working on commercials and training films
until 1985 when the School of Visual Arts at Penn State accepted him into
the MFA photography program.
From 1985 until 1996, he was a video editor, sound-person, and photographer
for the Rural America Documentary Series. During that time he co-produced
the television documentary Zion is Closed for WPSX, TV and worked on over
a dozen other broadcast television documentaries. He has been teaching
photography at Penn State since 1989. He was involved in the implementation
of the Digital Photography Studio at Penn State in 1997 and has been recently
specializing in teaching courses that are a blend of traditional and digital
photographic techniques.