Jonathan Trundle, Photographer and Professor of Photography in the Department of Media Arts in the Photography Program, earned his B.S. in Mass Communications from Middle Tennessee State University (2001) in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and his M.F.A. in Photography and Digital Imaging from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2006) in Baltimore, Maryland.  He currently teaches entry and advanced level classes in the Photography Program of Media Arts Department at Middle Tennessee State University (since July 2011) and also serves as the Photography Program Coordinator.  Galleries in Baltimore, Washington D.C., and New Jersey have displayed his work and he is receiving recognition from these and surrounding areas.  His personal photographic work has a main focus of using slit shutter and slit scan cameras where he uses various types of camera formats to explore the element of linear time within an image.  He builds, modifies, and constructs film cameras, projection devices, and he writes code for computer programs and digital cameras to suit his needs of expression and exploration within the photographic medium.  His work records subject matter and produce images not possible with traditional factory specification format cameras.  This process allows him to distort certain portions of an image while keeping certain portions relative and by showing both the distortions and the predictable results in the same image the process provides the viewer with a new way of looking at the world and a new respect for the mundane.  He is equally proficient in numerous types of photographic mediums with an emphasis on medium format, large format, and ultra-large format cameras.  He also works with alternative processes in photography that has also influenced other directions in his personal work of pinhole camera construction, large-scale screen-printing, artist book making, and exploring artist book binding techniques.

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