Mr. Oden received his first camera, a Pentax K1000, Christmas of his eight grade year, and has been shooting ever since. Mr. Oden began his professional work in photojournalism, working for a small paper in Utah where he won several awards from the Utah Press Association and the Society of Professional Journalist. Mr. Oden recently relocated to the Huntsville area from Athens, Ohio, where he did his MA in editorial photography at Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication. Mr. Oden’s work now covers about every area of photography, and is equally well known for his dramatic commercial lighting as he is for his visual storytelling.