The Reading Warehouse

David Muench has photographed the landscape in all its grandeur for half a century. Traveling the U.S. since early childhood with his father, renown photographer Josef Muench, there was never another way of life for him. His 4 x 5 large format camera is as much a part of him as his innovative eye. He has lately been experimenting with digital cameras as a result of his work photographing World Heritage Sites for UNESCO and Panasonic. Innovator of original and oft-imitated approaches to the landscape, Muench brings his own idea of geography into both his spectacular color and black and white images. Long intimate with America's wild places, in recent years Muench has expanded outward across the globe, photographing in Antarctica, New Zealand, Australia, Iceland, Japan, Morocco, South Africa, the Galapagos, Patagonia, Russia, and Belarus. Muench's work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries, including the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Mountain Light Gallery in Bishop, California. A shared exhibit with Ansel Adams and Jack Dykinga was mounted at the Phoenix Art Museum, The Center for Creative Photography, and the Museum of Northern Arizona. He was commissioned by the National Park Service to provide thirty-three photographic murals presenting the landscapes of the Lewis and Clark expedition. He has published over fifty large format books. David lives in Corrales, New Mexico.

Marc Muench has been a professional landscape and sports photographer for over twenty years. He has photographed for book publishers such as Graphic Arts Books, Browntrout Publishing, and Time, Inc., and his photography has appeared on covers or inside Time, National Geographic, Traveler, Arizona Highways, Ski, Skiing, Sunset, Outside, Sierra Magazine, and more. Marc was designated by Kodak in 2003 as a Kodak PhotoIcon, and he represented Canon Camera in several ad campaigns, as well as appearing on "Canon Photo Safari," which aired on ESPN outdoor block for eight straight seasons. Marc is now the "artist in residence" at dgrin.com for Smugmug, where he contributes on a regular basis to the "Muench University" critique thread. He is currently the photo editor of the National Parks guide, published by The American Park Network, which contains many of his images taken throughout the United States National Park system. Marc lives in Santa Barbara, California, with his wife, Stefanie, and their three children.