Portrait of Hal Gould

Klaus Kocher is a photojournalist and adjunct professor in the Isaacson School at Colorado Mountain College. He holds an MFA in Photography from Ohio University along with a Bachelors in Business and Bachelors in Food Technology from Iowa State. He has won numerous awards with the Denver Photographic Society, was a finalist in the Gordon Parks Photography Competition and recently received honorable mention in the Rotary International Photography contest.

Before coming to the Roaring Fork Valley, he worked as a contract photographer for United Press International (UPI) and The Associated Press (AP) in Iowa, the Centerville-Bellbrook Times, the Kettering-Oakwood Times, and the Troy Daily Times in Ohio. While living in Denver after graduate study, he worked at the Camera Obscura Gallery with his mentor Hal Gould. Klaus continues to shoot as a freelance photographer based in Glenwood Springs. He is always traveling the world with camera in hand and loves to teach darkroom photography.

Klaus was awarded CMC Spring Valley Adjunct Faculty of the year in 2015.