Willie Osterman earned a BFA and MFA in photography and is a recent professor Emeritus of Fine Art Photography at Rochester Institute of Technology. He was a printing assistant to the production of the Ansel Adams Special Edition Prints assisting Alan Ross and has worked as a contract photographer for the Eastman Kodak Company. His publication 'Déjà View: A Cultural Re-Photographic Survey of Bologna, Italy' in its second edition is out of print. During a recent sabbatical he received a Fulbright Scholars Award to develop a Masters Degree program and teach at the Academy of the Dramatic Arts, University of Zagreb, Croatia. He has over 80 exhibitions in the US, Italy, Turkey, Austria, China and Croatia. His work is included, among others, in the collections of the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the University of New Mexico Museum of Art, and the Alinari Photographic Archive in Florence, Italy.