I wanna be like my photo advisor at Ryerson, Dave Heath. In the first month of my third year he made two of my twelve classmates cry and three or four drop the class. He would tell me that I was “not a photgrapher” and and yell at me to shut up when I was trying to explain my work.

Dave Heath is a great photographer and the best teacher I’ve ever known. Approaching his teaching in what might be considered an older, European tradition, Heath presents himself as the master and you are his student. After fourteen years I’m still a little intimidated by him.

I wish I could still signup for office hours.

Now I am no BarCamp master, but I’m interested to see how our Hogtown approach meshes with Chris and Tara’s philosophy.