BCA - BioCommunications Association

An international association of photographers, videographers and graphic designers who create visual media for medicine and science.

Capturing images from science, medicine, and nature

Wilmington Robotic Exoskeleton © Suchat Pederson

Plastic Surgeon © Richard DeWitt, RBP

Reassurance in Love © Benjamin Hanson

Research worker with her mass spectrometer © David Bishop, BSc

BIOCOMM 2022, Where Imaging Specialists Meet

Plan now for BIOCOMM 2022 in sunny Santa Fe, New Mexico

The BioCommunications Association will be holding its 90th meeting BIOCOMM in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the historic Drury hotel from May 2022.

Following the huge success of BICOMM 2019, we have listened to feedback from meeting participants so BIOCOMM 2022 will have more workshops providing a greater opportunity to learn new techniques and improve your photographic skill set.

Maria Ikenberg Lindberg Keynote
Will Wilson, Diné photographer

Will Wilson is a photographic artist and an educator and is Program Head of Photography, Santa Fe Community College. His art projects center around the continuation and transformation of customary indigenous cultural practice. With his lens based artistry Wilson challenges the traditional portrayal of the indigenous North American image and reclaims it for modern generations.

Wilson studied photography, sculpture, and art history at the University of New Mexico (MFA, Photography, 2002) and Oberlin College (BA, Studio Art and Art History, 1993).

Will Wilson will give the Maria Ikenberg Lindberg Keynote Address at BIOCOMM 2022.

Gale Spring, FBPA Anne Shiras Pioneer Lecture
Associate Professor Gale Spring, FBPA

Gale Spring was Director of Photographic Services in the Pathology Department at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, Texas for 11 years, working between pathology services and the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Science.

In 1988, Gale made a giant leap moving from Dallas, Texas to Melbourne, Australia to take a position as Senior Lecturer and Program Leader of the program in Scientific Photography at the RMIT University. Gale retired as Deputy Dean in the School of Applied Science in 2013 but remains an Adjunct Professor in the School of Science. He continues teaching, conducting workshops and consulting on forensic imaging cases.

Gale will give the Anne Shiras Pioneer Members Lecture at BIOCOMM 2022.

BioImages 2020 Salon

The BioCommunications Association is pleased to announce the BioImages 2020 Salon! The Salon entries are now posted in the BioImages Gallery. Many thanks to the Judges for their hard work and expertise selecting this year's Salon and Award winners.

Danielle Edwards – 2020 Louis Schmidt Laureate

The Louis Schmidt Committee is pleased to announce that Danielle Edwards, BA, BAppSc (Hons), FBCA, RBI, FAIMBI, FIPT has been selected as the 2020 Louis Schmidt Laureate. This award, the highest honour in the BCA, will be presented at BIOCOMM 2022.

Danielle's 30-year photographic career has been primarily as Manager of Clinical Photography at Austin Health in Melbourne, Australia. Currently she is the veteran liaison photographer at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, documenting veterans and working with the historical collection. Her background is in arts and science.