Lehman College professors David Gillison (Art) and Robert Schneider (Mathematics and Computer Science) have been collaborating on projects involving advanced digital imaging and modeling. Working as a team they create panoramic photographs that are inspired by the Hudson River School of painting. With High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging techniques, they use computer technology to combine multiple images of the same scene, maximizing the pixels and the quality of the image by eliminating some of the contrast and filling in the darker areas with information. Here they have captured a view of Spuyten Duyvil from Manhattan and an abandoned train station in Van Cortlandt Park.

Gillison and Scheider are working on two long-term documentary projects, the transformation of the Manhattan’s meat packing district from gritty to chic, and the impact of two parallel gold rushes, California and Nevada in 1849, and Central Victoria, Australia in 1851. In 2007 the first part of this project was exhibited at Place Gallery Richmond, Victoria, Australia. David Gillison earned his Diploma in Art from the National Gallery of Art, Victoria, Australia and did post-graduate studies at the Slade School of Art, London, England. He is a Conservation Fellow with the Wildlife Conservation Society and a Founder Member of the Research and Conservation Socitye of Papua New Guinea. Robert Schneider earned his BS from MIT, Cambridge, MA and his PhD Mathematics from Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Together with Lehman College students he created the Guggenheim Museum’s first website. He administered “Talkback,” an online journal with David Gillison and Susan Hoeltzel for the Lehman College Art Gallery. He programmed and administered The Longest Sentence, an online artwork by Douglas Davis.