John Ganis is a photographer and a professor of photography at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. His photographs on land use in America are in the collections of the Center for Creative Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Osaka University of Arts, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others, and they have appeared in Aperture Magazine, Camera Austria International, Kwartlnik Fotografia, Photographie Magazine, The Photo Review, and Photo Technik International. Ganis is also the author of Consuming the American Landscape (Dewi Lewis, 2003), which was awarded a Stuttgart Photo Book Prize.