New Orleans born photographer, Sam Urrate lives in the arts. His expertise in the photographic processes has been geared to extensive black and white work and the alternative photographic processes with particular emphasis in the bromoil, polaroid image transfer, palladium and lith printing techniques. He was a pioneer in the digital photographic processes.
Sam is a member of the faculty at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts where he is currently teaching beginning camera, the alternative photographic processes and digital photography. His work has appeared in numerous exhibits and is widely collected. Sam founded the teaching program at Lakeside Camera where he taught introduction to photography, basic single lens reflex photography, sports photography, advanced composition and digital photography.
He has served on the jury for several art shows and judged the Jack Swanson Photo Exhibit in 2003 and curated and judged the exhibit in 2004.