about

Shawn Mcginniss first studied photography in high school after purchasing a Nikon N60 film SLR camera from ebay using money saved up from working a part time job. In the spring of his senior year, he got permission from his high school to leave early two days per week to enroll in a 3-credit black and white photography course at his local community college.

In college, he completed an 18-credit certificate program in photography and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology at the Pforzheimer Honors College at Pace University's downtown New York campus.

At Pace, Shawn worked as a teaching assistant for photography courses and as a darkroom technician, where he managed the lab and advised photography students on their printing techniques during open darkroom lab hours. His photography has been featured in LEGEND Yearbook (2006), the Fine Arts Department Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition (2006), and published twice in APHROS, a university-wide art and literary magazine (2005, 2006). He shot the covers of two Pace University Performing Arts playbills: Marat/Sade (2006) and Diary of Anne Frank (2007). During his senior year at Pace, Shawn served as the Photo Editor and Senior Photographer for LEGEND Yearbook, where he got his first taste for shooting events.

After college, Shawn worked as a freelance photo assistant and as a research coordinator for a public health research center and grant writing support office at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY). He began shooting events in earnest in the summer of 2006 with the launch of Shawn Mac Photography.

Shawn currently works for an instructional technology support office at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), where he provides training and distance learning support. He shoots freelance weddings and events thoughout the year, occasionally shooting commercial and portrait assignments as well. Aside from photography, Shawn's interests lie in digital imaging, photo retouching, web design, research methods and data management/analysis, visualizing data, and exploring new advances in technology and computing.