Background
John B. Ganis was born on July 15, 1951 in Evanston, Illinois, United States.
John B. Ganis was born on July 15, 1951 in Evanston, Illinois, United States.
John Ganis earned a Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, in 1972 and received an Master of Fine Arts in 1980 from the University of Arizona, Tucson.
John Ganis was a studio assistant to Irving Penn in 1971. He has been a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Arizona, Tucson, since 1978 and worked there as coordinator and instructor of a summer arts workshop in photography in 1979. In 1978 he was a special assistant to W. Eugene Smith at the university; from 1974 to 1977 John Ganis was adjunct lecturer at Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, New York.
John Ganis has concentrated his photography in and around water since 1974.
