Education
Steve Zmak has spent his 30-year career doing marketing, public and media relations, fundraising, and graphic design for educational institutions from Head Start Preschools to universities to educational technology companies. He teaches photography to students of all ages, and speaks on the subject in classrooms and community organization. It’s this experience that makes him so successful photographing students, faculty, staff, and volunteers of all ages and walks of life.
Most of the images in this gallery are from the 9 years Zmak spent as the staff photographer for Cal State Monterey Bay (1996-2005), and his continuing freelance assignments for them and their educational partners in subsequent years.
As staff photographer for Cal State Monterey Bay from 1996-2005, I had the opportunity to photograph a wide variety of events: athletics, commencement ceremonies, Capstone Festivals, concerts and performing arts, alumni reunions, treaty signings, television net and broadcasts, Panetta Lecture Series and President’s Speakers Series, groundbreakings and ribbon cuttings, fundraising dinners, carnivals and festivals, and student club events.
As staff photographer for Cal State Monterey Bay from 1996-2005, I had the opportunity to photograph a wide variety of events: athletics, commencement ceremonies, Capstone Festivals, concerts and performing arts, alumni reunions, treaty signings, television net and broadcasts, Panetta Lecture Series and President’s Speakers Series, groundbreakings and ribbon cuttings, fundraising dinners, carnivals and festivals, and student club events.