Wes Carson is the head of photography at Miami International University of Art and Design and a former assistant to Irving Penn. Carson has over 20 years experience in commercial and fine art photography. He earned his BA in Photography from the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California and his MFA in Photography and Digital Imaging from the University of Miami. Carson has been teaching at the university level for the past 6 years and is a finalist for the 2011 Fulbright Scholars Program to Romania. He is currently working on a documentary project that takes inventory of contemporary culture at work.