Welcome to Allen Rokach's Photography Site "Allen is a master of flower and garden photography, an excellent photographer who's easy to work with, and delivers great images on deadline for a wide variety of assignment photography. And as a Workshops@Adorama instructor, he consistently receives glowing evaluations from the attendees. ... Over the past 25 years, I've hired Allen again and again; his beautiful images and the results of all his assignments and workshops are quite simply, the best." "I recommend Allen Rokach as an amazing garden photography teacher. But Mr. Rokach provides more than beautiful, often haunting pictures. "Allen Rokach is without a doubt the finest photographer I have ever worked with. If Allen can't take the picture, the picture can't be taken." Allen Rokach ... is probably the best photographer I have ever seen." "When I have a difficult assignment, the first person I call is Allen Rokach." "I've always just shot what I happened to see that attracted me but on Rokach's field trips I learned to apply myself. "I would like to thank Allen for taking a personal interest in each student for taking the time to answer all questions presented." "Allen worked diligently to give each individually as much attention as they required." "Allen was very helpful and very open with everyone with very constructive comments and assistance. Allen does a wonderful job of opening one's mind to the wide world of possibilities for photographing flowers and gardens and for making you think about what you do." "Allen was very knowledgeable. My photography had taken a quantum leap forward as a result of Al's photography program." "Allen would come over to you and offer help in the middle of a land tour and then follow-up that you were able to work out and follow the solution." Allen was very approachable." "Allen and Anne, you are wonderful people! "Allen made everyone every comfortable and struck a delicate balance being supportive and at the same time constructive and demanding." Allen finds beauty and strengths in everybody's pictures." "Allen used pictures taken by students in class as a way of illustrating his teaching points." "Allen Rokach is an excellent workshop instructor - all around I would attend any workshop led by him." "Mr. Rokach is wonderful." The patience shown by Mr. Rokach was great!

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ALLEN ROKACH Photographer, author, educator, and lecturer Allen Rokach will be joining us to help you create memorable photographs of your journey. He will offer lectures focusing on key elements of travel photography, anticipating the kinds of subjects and lighting conditions we are likely to find at our ports of call. He will include pointers on digital photography. He will also schedule critique sessions for those who want his comments on images taken during the cruise, and he will be available informally to answer questions aboard ship and during land excursions. An expert at capturing people and places, Allen Rokach has traveled the globe during 30 years of photography assignments and workshops. His photographs are in many collections and have appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times, and every major photography magazine. For 12 years, he was Director of Photography at The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) and spent 10 years as Senior Features and Garden photographer at Southern Living magazine. Allen founded/coordinated the Center for Nature Photography and the Certificate Program in Garden and Nature Photography at The NYBG.

Bok Tower Gardens > Calendar > Adult Programs > Elements of Nature Photography & Digital Capture Techniques Workshop with Allen Rokach Elements of Nature Photography & Digital Capture Techniques Workshop with Allen Rokach Allen Rokach focuses on in-depth instruction, individual consultations and hands-on training during the Gardens' peak bloom. "Allen Rokach is without a doubt the finest photographer I have ever worked with. If Allen can't take the picture, the picture can't be taken." About Allen Rokach Allen Rokach is a preeminent nature, garden, travel and location photographer whose 30-year career includes being a senior photographer for Southern Living magazine for 11 years. His assignments have ranged from extreme macrophotography done in-studio to on-location documentaries of the vast Amazon Rainforest. These assignments have come from numerous prestigious travel, photography, specialty and general interest publications, resulting in his photographs of flowers, gardens and people from around the globe appearing in or on the covers of Southern Living, National geograhic, Audubon, Camera 35, Popular Photography, Coastal Living, Modern Photography, Natural History, Parade, Pinnacle, Fine Gardening, Garden Design, Horticulture, Outdoor Photographer, Garden, Southern Accents, Progressive Farmer, Landscape Architecture, Cooking Light, Science Digest and The New York Times, among others. In addition, Rokach has received many corporate commissions, including from PepsiCo, Massey-Ferguson, The Biltmore Estate, Chase Manhattan Bank, Bankers Trust, Becton Dickinson, Cunard, Air France, Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center, Netherlands Board of Tourism, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Royal Cruise Line, Beth Israel Medical Center and Edward Durrell Stone Jr. & Associates. Rokach has been active as a photographic educator throughout his career. During his 12 years as the staff photographer and director of photography at The New York Botanical Garden, he initiated and coordinated the Certificate Program in Nature and Garden Photography. He also taught photography at numerous institutions, including The New School for Social Research, The American Museum of Natural History, The International Center of Photography, The Biltmore Estate, The Chicago Botanic Garden, The Winterthur Museum & Gardens, The Santa Fe Photographic Workshops and several Westchester colleges. Among his courses, he led groups on travel-oriented photo workshops to such varied locations as: West Africa, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, as well as diverse places throughout the United States. In 1988 Rokach founded The Center for Nature Photography, which sponsors instructional nature and garden photography workshops to such prime locations as Acadia National Park, in Maine; Crested Butte & Steamboat Springs, in Colorado; Arches and Canyonlands National Park, in Utah; Monument Valley, in Arizona; the hill country of Texas; and Bosque del Apache Bird Sanctuary and White Sands National Monument, in New Mexico. Rokach has been widely published. He has coauthored with Anne Millman 15 books and numerous articles on various aspects of photography, nature and travel. These include "Focus on Flowers: Discovery & Photographing Beauty in Gardens & Wild Places," published by Abbeville Press and winner of the 1991 Award of the Year for Photography from the Garden Writers Association of America. Rokach and Millman also coauthored "Focus on Travel: Creating Memorable Photographs of Journeys to New Places," published by Abbeville Press in 1993, as well as a series of books for Amphoto called "The Center for Nature Photography Field Guide to Photographing:" The series included books on "Flowers," "Landscapes," "Trees," "Birds," "Gardens" and "Seasons. Mr. Rokach also provided photographs for such other books as: "Gardens of the Heartland" (Abbeville Press) and "A Three Year Garden Journal" (Fulcrum Publishers).

Since 1975, Allen Rokach has been circling the globe on many assignments for publications such as National Geographic, The New York Times, Audubon, Natural History, Popular Photography, Modern Photography, Better Homes & Gardens, and Science Digest. As a recognized expert in location photography, his photographs have appeared on the covers of numerous  magazines and used for a variety of commercial publications. Ginko-Tree-Allen Rokach Mr. Rokach's work spans photojournalism, public relations, fine art, travel and other features. He served for fourteen years as Director of Photography at the New York Botanical Garden and Senior Photographer at Southern Living magazine for ten years. His corporate clients include PepsiCo, Becton Dickinson, Cunard, Royal Cruise Lines, Bankers Trust, Chase Manhattan Bank, Air France, Netherlands Board of Tourism, among others.