Mark J. Watts is a photographer and educator, he currently teaches at the Flower City Arts Center in Rochester, NY.

Watts has experience in many media formats, over the last few years his personal focus has been on Photography, specifically his analog based darkroom practice. He enjoys teaching the technical and aesthetic concepts for photography and print, and presents courses based on the technical foundation of the media, employing transferable skills, process refinement, and real world examples. He has extensive experience in digital and analog media, where the ultimate result/product drives the process and workflow. He has authored Instructional Design for multimedia and computer based training for many Fortune five hundred clients.

Watts’ photographs have been exhibited widely in New York, and many are published in three books: Route 66, Sacred Sites and Unapologetic Beauty. He also was featured in the 2017 documentary feature film; Photo City which explores the lives and passions of the Rochester photographic community.

He holds a B.F.A. (Photography) and an M.S. (Instructional Design) from the Rochester Institute of Technology.