Joe Chernicoff...is the Executive Director of Cowboy Photographers and Artists International [CPAI], which has replaced Cowboy Artists and Photographer of America [CAPA}. With a bacheor degree from an ag college received in 1953, and follow up graduate study in agriculture, he has worked not only in his education discipline, but in other industries, all the while keeping active, in varying degrees, with the various functions of agriculture.In the 70s and 80s, Joe had a productive painting career, and was fortunate enough to have received a number of commissions from clients for his abstract and stylized acrylic work. His artistic bent, which he claims was genetically inserted from his mother, enabled him to develop the ability to produce forensic videography - video and photography productions used as demonstrative evidence. One of his current ongoing projects is podcast and internet broadcasting. The Cowboy Photography and Art online newsletter is now a podcast - audio, video, and or text. Other of these projects include his security podcasts; a directory for those is on this page. |
He developed this effective use of photography and video during his early years as a security consultant/expert witness in security litigation and training, an industry in which he has been working for over 30 years. The experience in forensic photography and vidography, where the story content is extremely imporant, led him to rodeo photography, where, he says, with a little luck and knowing what to look for (having had his share of animals throw him), it's possible to to capture the living excitement and conflict between the cowboy and the great animals with which he's involved. Joe says that he's kind of moved back into painting, except he 's using the computer to bring out the essence of the rodeo and working cowboy. "Photo Art" is a term that's being used for creating paintings from photographs so that the essence of the photo is extrapolated. In 1996, he developed cowboyartshow.com, what is now the leading cowboy and rodeo art and photography site in that genre.
As the Executive Director of CPAI, Joe enjoys the opportunity to work with the great photographers
and artists with whom he comes in contact.
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