John J. Larish

John J. Larish was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Dayton and graduated from Empire State College in New York with a B.S. in business administration. In 2007 he was named as a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Dayton.

His career in photography spanned 29 years including management of a photographic laboratory, work with both GAF (Ansco) and Eastman Kodak Company where he worked in domestic as well as International markets. As a Senior Market Intelligence Analyst at Kodak, he was known as the tallest spy in the business since he was two meters tall.

Larish served as a consultant to firms around the world and has worked on the development of several new corporations. He has served as an expert witness in several patent litigations because of his depth of experience and resources.

He has written many articles for popular and technical publications and has appeared as a guest speaker at meetings for many organizations both in the United States and overseas, including the American Management Association, Photo Marketing Association, Electronic Industries Association, Society of Photographic and Science Technology of Japan in Tokyo, Consumer Electronic Association, the IS&T, and others.

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, the Biological Photographers Association, Society for Information and Science Technology, and the Optical Society of America have published his technical papers.

He reported for more than a dozen years on business and technology for WXXI-AM radio and was the imaging analyst for R-News, a television news channel in Rochester, New York. He has regularly appeared on other television and radio talk shows.

John was a founding Editor/Publisher of Electronic Photography News, the earliest monthly publication in that field. He is also currently or has been a contributing editor for several publications including Advanced Imaging, Digital Imaging, PTN, International Contact, and Photo Industry Reporter where his Technology Tomorrow column appears regularly.

He has been a contributing writer to a number of other publications such as the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, and Optics & Photonics News. He was a contributor to the Focal Encyclopedia of Photography and the 1996 McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology.