Art Department: Faculty
Jim Flory
Assistant Professor of Photography
Professional Photographer
Chair/Art Department
Photography at Pacific University is taught as a participatory art medium. Students have the opportunity to follow a number of structured classes as well as the flexibility to do independent research and study in any number of photography subjects.
Jim Flory has been teaching photography at Pacific for 18 years. He and his students have participated in and won several national and international awards in photo competition.
Flory teaches a week long field-session in Vancouver BC every June based at the University of British Columbia. He also teaches Photography in Hawaii during Winter III in rotation with other Art Department faculty.
"I believe that fine-art photography students need to have a good understanding of camera technique, color theory and practice, and a good basic foundation of traditional black and white photography. From there they can begin to really work and manipulate their photography in just about any direction they wish to go." We have integrating digital techniques into our program and have begun teaching digital photography classes. In addition, we have several excellent photography internships for our students majoring in Art/Photography."
"I run an open door policy in my area of the Art department. When I am on campus my office door is always open. It is important that my students have as much access to me as they need. I enjoy the interaction whether there is one student or an office full of students." My photography students who are majoring in Art spend a great deal of time with me in the darkroom, in the field, and at my office desk looking at their work. I set an example for my students as an active working photographer. I find 
exhibition competition very challenging and I like to have my students participate in print competition too"
" The success of our photography program shows its strength in the number of Art Majors that specialize in photography each year and the fact that so many of them leave Pacific and find excellent careers in photography. From teaching photography to stock photography; art galleries to landscape and nature photography; portraits and weddings to medical journals and publications; travel photography to National Geographic. I am very pleased that so many former students stay in touch and let me know about their lives and careers. It's a pleasure to have them return and see the changes we have made to our facility and program."