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MEET DONNA

Photo by Nicole Downey

Donna Cosentino has been passionately engaged in Photography since that first moment of darkroom magic experienced in 1971.

The street-shooting genre she practiced led her to a job as a photojournalist at a North San Diego County daily newspaper where she worked for seven years.  

She began teaching photography at Palomar Community College over thirty years ago. During that time, she also coordinated the International Photography Competition at the San Diego County Fair, managed the Photographer's Gallery in Escondido, and built a destination photo workshop business, Photographic Explorations. Upon retiring from Palomar College in 2018, she gathered a group of dedicated photographers and created The Photographer’s Eye Collective, a gallery and teaching space in Escondido, California

Donna most often works in Black and White film using a Rolleiflex twin lens, a Zone VI 4x5, and a 1970's Polaroid SX70.

To view more of Donna's fine art photography click HERE.

Image by Nicole Downey

Images seen in the slideshow below are examples from her work as a Times-Advocate photographer in the 1980's and from a more recent body of work about the Bailey's area on Palomar Mountain in San Diego County.