​Garin Horner has been a photo-educator for over 30 years. Over the last ten years Garin has given presentations at several regional and annual conferences on the topic of effective teaching. He’s authored the only two books that are specifically designed for photo-educators, Teaching Photography: Tools for the Imaging Educator, 2nd Edition and The Photography Teacher's Handbook: Practical Methods for Engaging Students in the Flipped Classroom. His books are used widely by both new and tenured photo educators. Garin’s most recent book was written to help students learn and broaden their understanding of photography - The Photo Student Handbook: Essential Advice on Learning Photography and Launching Your Career Path.
 
Garin is the recipient of the United Methodist Award for Exemplary Teaching and the Adrian College Creative Activity, Research and Scholarship Award. He has been a featured speaker at The Great Lakes Conference on Teaching and Learning, FATE (Foundations in Art: Theory & Education, and SoTL (the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) conferences. He has also been a guest speaker at several U.S. colleges and Universities, like the University of Toledo, Siena Heights University, Lourdes University, the University of Michigan, the Southern Illinois University, and others. Internationally Garin served as a guest artist at the Sir JJ School of Art, in Mumbai, India, and the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda’s College of Art, in Baroda, India.
 
Because Garin believes that travel has a great potential to accelerate creative, intellectual, emotional, and technical growth in a student’s photography practice, he continues to organize (Post COVID) yearly student trips to the Midwest Chapter and Annual SPE conferences. In addition, he has taken students on photography adventures all over the world, to countries like India, Nepal, England, Belgium, France, Italy, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada. He also takes students to numerous cities, State Parks, and National Parks across the United States.
 
For over 30 years Garin has been exhibiting award-winning fine art photography in national and international museums including the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Cranbrook Art Museum, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Fort Wayne Art Museum and the Musee du Louvre, in Paris. He has studied with Carl Toth, Joyce Neimanas, Robert Fichter, A.D. Coleman, Joel-Peter Witkin, William Wegman, and Barbara Kruger. Horner's photography is collected by museums including the University of Michigan Art Museum, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, and others.
 
Garin holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He is the former Vice-Chair and Secretary of the Midwest Chapter of SPE and currently a Full Professor of Photography of Art and the Director for the Adrian College Center for Effective Teaching at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan.