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Chaddy Dean Smith is a fine art photographer best known for his ongoing photographic study of the American landscape. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, he is a professor of photography at Texas A&M University—Commerce. He served on the University of Oklahoma’s School of Art faculty for thirteen years before coming to TAMUC and has more than thirty years of experience in both the applied and fine art fields of photography. He has conducted many workshops, including a pinhole workshop at the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain. Smith has presented his award-winning photographs nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Among venues that have featured his work are the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee, OK; Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK; Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX; The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO; Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China; Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH; and Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA. The Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, chose Smith’s triptychs for its “Reverberations: Diptychs and Triptychs” exhibition and for inclusion in its permanent collection. Smith’s “Multiple Images of a Complex Nature” series was selected as a Juror’s Pick of the 2019 LensCulture Black & White Photography Awards.