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Gary Samson
Artist Laureate of New Hampshire & Professor Emeritus of Photography, New Hampshire Institute of Art (NHIA)

Gary Samson is a fine art photographer and photo educator who has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships for his work during the past forty years. He is currently serving as the Artist Laureate of New Hampshire after retiring as the Chair of the Photography Department at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, NH. Gary has taught photography courses and workshops regionally and internationally since 1981 and his career in photography started in 1971 at the University of New Hampshire where he served as the University Filmmaker and Manager of Photography.

He traces his appreciation for and love of photography to a summer job he had in 1968 at the Manchester Historic Association.

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