Donna Cosentino

Donna Cosentino has been passionately engaged in photography since she experienced that first moment of darkroom magic in 1971. The street-shooting genre she practiced in the 1970s led to a job as a photojournalist at a daily newspaper, where she worked for eight years. Following that she taught photography at Palomar College and Grossmont College. Her teaching credits include creative processes, landscape, photojournalism, darkroom, and photographic portfolio. Donna has juried and curated multiple exhibitions and has lectured at the Museum of Photographic Arts, the California Center for the Arts, and camera clubs throughout Southern California. She retired as a full-time professor from Palomar in 2018 and began The Photographer’s Eye Collective, a photography gallery, darkroom, and workshop space in Escondido, California. A practicing fine art photographer who has shown her work in the Hyde Gallery, the Boehm Gallery, the San Diego Natural History Museum, Distinctions, and Size Matters, she works primarily in black and white. Examples of her work can be seen at the Photographer’s Eye Collective and at www.thephotographerseyecollective.com/meet-donna; www.thephotographerseyecollective.com/p223940423.