Eric Breitenbach

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Eric Breitenbach was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 10, 1956, the son of Joseph and Julia Breitenbach. He attended the Assumption of The Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Elementary School in Morristown, New Jersey, and Bayley-Ellard Catholic High School in Madison, New Jersey. He also attended Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison and then attended and graduated from The Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York with a BFA degree in Photographic Illustration in 1979 and an MS degree in Instructional Technology in 1981. In August of 1981 he moved to Florida and began his teaching career at The Southeast Center for Photographic Studies at Daytona Beach Community College in Daytona Beach, Florida.

From 1981 to the present he has been a still photographer, with an emphasis on black and white, unmanipulated documentary-style photographs, working in 35mm, medium format, and large format. He completed several long term documentary projects, including the Florida Documentary Project (1989), a study of life in the state of Florida; The Sanford Documentary Project (1994), a study of three African-American neighborhoods in Sanford, Florida, and Orlando At The Millennium (2000), and exhibition of 100 photographs chronicling life in the metro Orlando, Florida area from 1991-2000

His still photographs have appeared in such publications as The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Details, Doubletake, InformationWeek, Labor's Heritage, Essence, and Orlando magazines. He has had over 20 solo exhibitions of his photographs throughout the US and is represented in the permanent collections of the Duke University Center For Documentary Studies, The Carpenter Center at Harvard University, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Ogden Museum of Art, The Norton Gallery of Art, The Southeast Museum of Photography, and the corporate collections of Cincinnati Bell and The Polaroid Corporation.

He has been a full time professor at the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies at Daytona Beach Community College since 1981. A favorite teacher of many of his students, he was firm on his students assignment deadlines, showing students that discipline and creativity were not mutually exclusive.

In 1989 he began working in film and video, and since then has produced documentaries for National Geographic Explorer, The Sundance Channel, The Sci-Fi Channel, Lifetime Real Women, America’s Health Network, PBS, and Florida Public Television. His most well-known productions are two feature length documentaries, My Father's Son, co-directed with Ben Van Hook, and When Pigs Fly, co-directed with Phyllis Redman.

He currently lives in Sanford, Florida, with his wife, Phyllis Redman.

In July of 2008, an exhibition of Breitenbach's photographic work will be on display at the Southeast Museum of Photography.