Greg Smith lives on the tidal May River west of Bluffton, S.C., less than 20 miles from both Hilton Head Island and Savannah, Ga., and just a couple hours drive from the Columbia, Charleston and Jacksonville metropolitan areas. From this bucolic but accessible base, he offers photography, writing, editing and consulting services to clients who range from local families and tourists, to magazines and corporations.
His personal photography focuses on wild- and human life in and along that tidal estuary and in the changing S.C. Lowcountry. His professional disciplines include journalism, documentary, corporate, commercial and institutional photography. A longtime specialist in 35mm black-and-white location photography, Greg also has considerable experience in various color media and medium formats. He now captures most of his images in color on digital cameras. While building his digital photography skills - and systems - over the past few years, Greg has also been building his knowledge of business issues, mulitmedia and video storytelling.
Greg earned a cum laude Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism at Ohio University and was named outstanding journalism master's candidate when he returned several years later for graduate studies. His career has seen him work as a news photographer, a newspaper editor, and a writer of both news and public relations copy. Since striking out on his own in 1995, Greg has refined specialties in location lighting, technology, outdoors, wildlife, action, portrait, wedding and aerial photography. He is a graduate of the first Platypus Workshop in video storytelling and the 2002 Visual Edge multimedia workshop.
Greg's handcrafted prints of the Lowcountry and elsewhere are available at the S.C. Artisans Center in Walterboro, at Jacob Preston's studio in Bluffton, through the Heyward House historical and welcome center in Bluffton, occasionally at other galleries, and directly from him. He plans to publish a book of his 25-year Bluffton essay. In 2003, the University of North Carolina Press published Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way, a collection of recipes, tales of subsistence living on a remote sea island and Greg's pictures, which he helped Daufuskie Island native Sallie Ann Robinson write. Bestselling author Pat Conroy (Sallie's seventh-grade teacher on Daufuskie) wrote a foreword for the book.
Listed on the S.C. Arts Commission's Roster of Approved Artists since 1997, Greg teaches occasionally at K-12 schools and summer arts programs across the state, and he has been a guest lecturer for several college courses. He is active in, and a former state board member of, the American Society of Media Photographers, and he is chairman of the National Press Photographers Association's Business Practices Committee. He was an early member of Editorial Photographers and posts regularly to several photography email lists. He is a board member for Bluffton Friends of the Library, and he has been active in other community efforts, serving on recreation, growth management and education task forces.
His wife, Janet, is Editorial Page Editor of The Island Packet newspaper and his partner in mediaSmith. They are the parents of twin, 23-year-old sons and a 16-year-old daughter.
Gregory Wrenn Smith
Greg Smith lives on the tidal May River west of Bluffton, S.C., less than 20 miles from both Hilton Head Island and Savannah, Ga., and just a couple hours drive from the Columbia, Charleston and Jacksonville metropolitan areas. From this bucolic but accessible base, he offers photography, writing, editing and consulting services to clients who range from local families and tourists, to magazines and corporations.
His personal photography focuses on wild- and human life in and along that tidal estuary and in the changing S.C. Lowcountry. His professional disciplines include journalism, documentary, corporate, commercial and institutional photography. A longtime specialist in 35mm black-and-white location photography, Greg also has considerable experience in various color media and medium formats. He now captures most of his images in color on digital cameras. While building his digital photography skills - and systems - over the past few years, Greg has also been building his knowledge of business issues, mulitmedia and video storytelling.
Greg earned a cum laude Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism at Ohio University and was named outstanding journalism master's candidate when he returned several years later for graduate studies. His career has seen him work as a news photographer, a newspaper editor, and a writer of both news and public relations copy. Since striking out on his own in 1995, Greg has refined specialties in location lighting, technology, outdoors, wildlife, action, portrait, wedding and aerial photography. He is a graduate of the first Platypus Workshop in video storytelling and the 2002 Visual Edge multimedia workshop.
Greg's handcrafted prints of the Lowcountry and elsewhere are available at the S.C. Artisans Center in Walterboro, at Jacob Preston's studio in Bluffton, through the Heyward House historical and welcome center in Bluffton, occasionally at other galleries, and directly from him. He plans to publish a book of his 25-year Bluffton essay. In 2003, the University of North Carolina Press published Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way, a collection of recipes, tales of subsistence living on a remote sea island and Greg's pictures, which he helped Daufuskie Island native Sallie Ann Robinson write. Bestselling author Pat Conroy (Sallie's seventh-grade teacher on Daufuskie) wrote a foreword for the book.
Listed on the S.C. Arts Commission's Roster of Approved Artists since 1997, Greg teaches occasionally at K-12 schools and summer arts programs across the state, and he has been a guest lecturer for several college courses. He is active in, and a former state board member of, the American Society of Media Photographers, and he is chairman of the National Press Photographers Association's Business Practices Committee. He was an early member of Editorial Photographers and posts regularly to several photography email lists. He is a board member for Bluffton Friends of the Library, and he has been active in other community efforts, serving on recreation, growth management and education task forces.
His wife, Janet, is Editorial Page Editor of The Island Packet newspaper and his partner in mediaSmith. They are the parents of twin, 23-year-old sons and a 16-year-old daughter.